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Topic: Ageing

A UK health study has collected a whopping 100,000 full-body scans, and Neanderthals had ‘family recipes’

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

That morning brew could be doing more than just jumpstarting your day—helping your cells age gracefully

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

India’s next demographic dividend is silver generation. Singapore, Canada show how

India will soon face an ageing population and labour shortages. This is why coherent approaches to engaging the silver generation in the economy are needed now.

How Naidu, Stalin’s call for baby boom is rooted in declining fertility rate, ageing population

Experts point to lower fertility, large dependent population and shrinking working-age population as factors that have led to concerns over demography in southern states.

Vegan diet reduces ageing & genetic damage, results in lower calorie intake — study on identical twins

US researchers had one half of each pair of twins eat an omnivorous diet, and the other a vegan diet, for eight weeks. Data from TwiNS study published in Biomedical Central Medicine.

Good mental health leads to improved longevity & influences healthy ageing, finds Nature study

Study was conducted by team of researchers in China, who analysed 8 datasets of people of European descent & studied 5 traits, including life satisfaction & neuroticism, among others.

Immortality was ‘scientifically proven’ in 1910s. But cancer cells compromised the study

In ‘Why We Die’, Venki Ramakrishnan examines breakthroughs in extending human lifespans and if death serves a biological purpose.

Flowers wilting fast? CSIR research says lemongrass essential oil can increase vase life

By reducing microbial blockage at stem end & enhancing antioxidant activity, lemongrass oil can improve vase life of cut flowers, making them more commercially valuable, it adds.

How long will people live in the future? Studies say you could live up to the age of 150

Researchers suggest that cellular decay behind ageing could be defeated to a point where people will no longer suffer from age-related health problems.

Nearly a quarter of Indians above 60 years suffer from poor health, says study

The Longitudinal Ageing Study in India notes that women with no schooling or employment are more likely to report poor health in ages 60 and above.

On Camera

Bank nationalisation will be a blow to India’s mixed economy, lead to totalitarianism: Phiroze Shroff

If banks were to be nationalised, politicians would start interfering with bank officials and put undue pressure on them, Prof Shroff wrote in 1963.

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

Secret to Pakistan aircraft losses in Op Sindoor could lie in Martin-Baker’s ejection seats records

New Delhi: On 7 May this year, as India and Pakistan entered into what was to be an 88-hour conflict, British firm Martin-Baker, which...

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.