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What is CRISPR, the gene editing technology that won the Chemistry Nobel prize?
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences yesterday awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Emmanuelle Charpentier and…
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Forged A New Place For Women In The Law And Society
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death has generated an outpouring of grief around the globe. Part of this grief…
Nurses On The Front Lines: A History Of Heroism From Florence Nightingale To Coronavirus
Nurses are heroes of the COVID-19 crisis. May 12 is International Nurses Day, which commemorates the birthday of…
Wright Brothers, Aircraft, And The Role Of Data
Airplanes are arguably one of the most transformative innovations of humankind. While there were multiple previous attempts to…
Who Do We Have To Thank For Inventing The Internet?
The Internet — arguably one of the greatest breakthrough of the last century not just from a technological…
Mahatma Gandhi : Lessons On How To Wisely Win Without Brute
Today, October 2, marks the anniversary of the birth of Mohandas Gandhi. Gandhi is best remembered as the…
Georges-Eugène Haussmann : Arrondissements & Boulevards
Paris, dubbed the ‘The City of Light’ (“La Ville Lumière”), one of the most beautiful cities in the…
Lee Kuan Yew : Starting Up A Nation
[infobox]“They laughed, at us,” he said in the second volume of his memoirs, “From Third World to First:…
Jane Jacobs : Warrior-Maiden For Urban Renewal
Happy International Women’s Day! In Citi IO fashion, we feature one of the greatest female urbanist of the…
Edwin Chadwick : Champion Of The Poor
The Industrial Revolution brought about many changes and ushered in a period of growth in cities. For the…
Alessandro Volta : The Power You Carry
Alessandro Volta is an Italian physicist famously known for his invention of the electric battery. Batteries provided…
Nikola Tesla : ‘Let Me Count The Ways’
Electricity, radio, x-rays, radar, wireless communications, these things undeniably plays a very significant role in our cities. It…
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We are all standing on the shoulders of giants. How did we arrive at this point? How did…