Category: Science

Many sugary foods include ingredients with bitter notes, such as cocoa in chocolate. | Photo Credit: Andriyko Podilnyk/Unsplash — Jesica Sandhu, New Delhi A: Not everyone senses a bitter aftertaste after eating sweet foods but some do. There are a few reasons. First, sweet foods activate your sweet taste receptors but not your bitter taste…

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By building cognitive reserve and preserving functional independence, lifelong curiosity vitality to your years. | Photo Credit: Kush Dwivedi/Unsplash It is estimated that in India on an average day, about 19,500 people celebrate their 60th birthday. The size of India’s population aged 60 and above is expected to surpass the population aged 0-14 years by…

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A brown anole. | Photo Credit: Charles J. Sharp (CC BY-SA) Picture a lizard the length of your finger clinging to a tree branch. The cause of its desperation is a 265 km/hr wind tearing through the air, threatening to peel it off like a loose sticker. Just this happened twice in two weeks to…

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Priya walks into an orthopaedician’s clinic with knee pain that she says she has had for three months. The doctor spends eight minutes with her, orders an MRI, and asks her to come back with the images. The MRI shows signs of early osteoarthritis. The doctor lists three options: injections, physiotherapy or wait and watch….

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The Falcon 9 rocket whose upper stage is going to crash on the moon (right) and the location of Einstein crater on the moon. | Photo Credit: NASA and Magere Hein (CC BY-SA) Astronomers are closely monitoring a SpaceX rocket stage that is on the way to striking the moon. This Falcon 9 rocket had…

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For centuries, diamonds have been regarded as symbols of eternal love, characterised by their rarity, scintillation and lustre. But behind the glamour of these stones lies a cold, hard truth: an industry plagued by forced labour, civil violence, and pollution. Some of the world’s largest diamond mines, such as the Argyle mine in Australia and…

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This aerial photograph taken from a French Civil Security rescue coordination helicopter shows a Turkish Air Tractor AT-802F Fire Boss amphibious water bomber A-172 dropping a load of water over a wildfire in south-western France on July 31, 2026. | Photo Credit: AFP Water-bombing aircraft resumed firefighting operations in Greece on Monday after winds eased,…

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An 18th century portrait of an Inca king. Smallpox caused Indigenous populations in South America to collapse following contact with Europeans because they .lacked natural immunity. | Photo Credit: Brooklyn Museum Study ‘proves’ colonists brought smallpox to South America Scientists have found direct molecular evidence that European colonisers brought smallpox to South America after recovering…

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