Rats can smell tuberculosis, dogs can smell cancer – they're being trained to save your life

Medics have found that teaching animals to detect life-threatening diseases works out cheaper, and faster, than other laboratory techniques.

Emma Young, Mosaicscience.com

· Feb 29, 2016 · 06:30 am

Here's why 'quacks’ in India are being trained to practise real medicine

An NGO is attempting to convert self-proclaimed doctors into a legitimate group of health workers to fill the vacuum in the government's health infrastructure.

Priyanka Pulla, Mosaic.com

· Nov 04, 2015 · 06:30 pm

As idea of family gets redefined by technology and new social norms, are the kids alright?

Test-tube babies, surrogates, single parents, gay fathers – the traditional ideas of what a family is have been challenged. How does this affect children?

Linda Geddes, mosaic.com

· Nov 02, 2015 · 04:30 pm

When India became the first country to ban 'The Satanic Verses' much before the Iranian fatwa

On October 5, 1988, the ban was invoked by the Finance Ministry, which prohibited importation of the book into the country under the Customs Act of 1962. Possession of the book itself was and is not a crime.

Achal Prabhala

· Oct 04, 2015 · 11:30 am

A tumour stole every memory I had. This is what happened when it all came back

A tumour that gave the author dementia and amnesia also helped him start a new life.

Demetri Kofinas, qz.com

· Oct 03, 2015 · 08:30 pm

India can contain its massive rabies problem – if it vaccinates 70% of its dogs

The WHO wants to eliminate rabies in Asia by 2020. But how, when rabid dogs are running India ragged?

Mary-Rose Abraham, Mosaic.com

· Sep 02, 2015 · 03:30 pm

The naked selfies: Behind the lens of women’s ‘nudies’

By simultaneously becoming the photographer and the subject, women are learning to see themselves anew, despite the fear of being exposed or shamed.

Nishita Jha

· Aug 03, 2015 · 11:30 am

Missing the familiar: What does it mean to be homesick in 2015

Does technology help or hinder us when we move to a new place?

John Osborne, mosaic.com

· Jul 12, 2015 · 02:30 pm

Why do male suicides outnumber female in every country in the world?

What is it about being male that leads to this? Why are middle-aged men most at risk? And why is it getting worse?

Will Storr

· Jun 21, 2015 · 01:30 pm

How to mend a broken heart: Replace it with an artificial one that could last forever

The legacy of Texan surgeons and the next generation of pulseless artificial hearts.

Alex O’Brien, mosaic.com

· Jun 14, 2015 · 02:30 pm

Why do we have allergies? A Yale immunologist searches for answers

Allergies such as peanut allergy and hay fever make millions of us miserable, but scientists aren’t even sure why they exist.

Carl Zimmer, mosaic.com

· Apr 19, 2015 · 08:45 am

How a bee sting saved my life: poison as medicine

Ellie Lobel was ready to die. Then she was attacked by bees.

Christie Wilcox, mosaic.com

· Mar 30, 2015 · 08:15 am