She met a Peruvian midwife, and that changed everything
By Khalida Sarwari In the hospitals of Peru, it is not unusual for a woman to be forced to stay out in the hallway, wearing …
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Domestic violence homicides appear to be on the rise. Are guns the reason?
By Khalida Sarwari Since the early 1990s, the number of murders had been steadily dropping. Then in 2015, it jumped up, and it continued escalating …
Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is coming to Northeastern
By Khalida Sarwari In the Rust Belt city where he’s served as a two-term mayor, Pete Buttigieg launched a campaign to demolish or repair 1,000 …
What secrets do ballet dancers hold for people with disabilities? Or for robots?
By Khalida Sarwari Human movement fascinates Dagmar Sternad. In January, she spent a day watching ballet dancers prance around her lab, with stickers on their joints. …
‘Star Wars’ inspired him to fight disease
By Khalida Sarwari He didn’t know it then, but the first time Minhal Ahmed discovered microbiota, he was 7. Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace was …