India’s most populous state Uttar Pradesh, home to 220 million people, on Friday 6 July, announced a plastic ban on items including plastic cups and…
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While there hasn’t been much speculation about the foreign concept of cryonics, there’s a ‘surreal’ amount of myths surrounding it. An extensive fantasy has devised…
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Hectic schedules, rush hours, extended work hours, deadlines! These works evoke not only stress but so many processes of the body and oh, aren’t they…
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A flurry of expressions in a sea of already loud voices isn’t going to let a single voice go through. Metaphorically, it is the cramming…
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Researchers have identified a new subtype of prostate cancer that occurs in about seven per cent of patients with advanced disease. The subtype is characterised…
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Even red flags look like flags through rose-coloured glasses. Such is the case with people who believe that mental illnesses are just terms they can…
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Girls who binge on alcohol may fail to reach their peak bone mass, increasing their risk of fractures in adulthood as well as osteoporosis, a…
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Self-invention has always been part of any painter’s repertoire. Think of the way Rembrandt made and remade himself throughout his life. But obsessive self-scrutiny might…
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In an extremely rare case, neuroscientists have mapped the brain of a Scottish woman who is blind but has developed the remarkable ability to see…
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A high blood pressure level but still below the usual threshold for treating hypertension can put 50-year-olds at increased risk of developing dementia later, revealed…