Month: March 2018

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The Brain’s Hippocampus Stops Adding New Neurons in Early Teens: Study

Lakshmi Supriya 19/03/2018

Only seven years after birth, the rate at which...

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Top Body of National Health Mission Has Quietly Become an All-Bureaucrat Affair

Oommen C. Kurian 19/03/2018

The latest meeting of the Mission Steering Group was...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the 104th Indian Science Congress in Tirupati, 2017. Credit: PTI

What the Erosion of Scientific Temper Portends for India

Shah Alam Khan 19/03/2018

The recent advent of right-wing leaders in functional democracies...

Irrfan Khan. Credit: Facebook

What Politicians Can Learn From Irrfan Khan On Going Public About Health

Anoo Bhuyan 18/03/2018

Bollywood actors have no responsibility to be transparent about...

Cabinet minister and senior BJP leader from Dehi Harshvardhan stands to attention while speaking to Prime Minister Modi in this file photo from 2014. Credit: PMO

A Science Minister – and an Event – That Insults Indian Science

Vasudevan Mukunth 17/03/2018

Harsh Vardhan and the administration to which he belongs...

Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO of Theranos. Credit: Brendan McDermid/Reuters

Theranos Promised a Diagnostics Revolution. Its Founder is Now Charged With Fraud

The Wire Staff 17/03/2018

The CEO and the former president of Theranos have...

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How Knowledge About Different Cultures Is Shaking the Foundations of Psychology

Nicolas Geeraert 16/03/2018

Studies are increasingly discovering that cultures shape people's perception,...