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A July news item made the year 2005 look like a Cinderella who’s left with an extra second after the midnight stroke. That [...]

COVID-19 couldn’t have silenced the mobile Towers of Babel, but it did stop the stampeding humanity in its tracks. The global effect of [...]

Did you readily decide to comply with social distancing in the early days of COVID-19? If you didn’t, Weiwei Zhang would say “blame [...]

The year 2020 would go into history as the “no hugs” year — a year in which people were forced to limit the [...]

Students mute their ignorance and answer questions correctly in an exam, without their ignorance being detected by teachers. Is this a possible scenario? [...]

One of the most prominent theories in modern science is Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle. Bertrand Russell said there is nothing uncertain about it, but [...]

Zebrafish are known for their pro-social behaviour, but around 10% of them are ‘loners’ who dismiss social cues. The brain activity of this [...]

If you unearth an artefact with the same shape and used for the same purpose in two or more differentregions, it could be [...]

If you are too slow in catching a bird, you may get another chance; but if you are too slow [...]

Imagine a place where the air temperature can drop to minus forty (-40) Celsius and the winds can bolt atspeeds of 40 meters [...]

A squeeze in the arm, a pat on the shoulder, or a slap in the face — touch is an important part of [...]

A great deal of medicine and thoughts that astronauts take to space addresses the unusual and confined environment of microgravity in which they [...]