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Wednesday, November 12, 2025
TopicBrain development

Topic: Brain development

After a solar eruption & a ‘severe’ geomagnetic storm, an aurora in the sky

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

Brain stimulation therapy can put an end to drug-resistant depression

Patricia Junquera -
Transcranial magnetic stimulation is a noninvasive, pain-free procedure that has minimal to no side effects, and often works.

Wondering why your child suddenly rebelled at 13? Stanford study on teenage brain has answer

Sandhya Ramesh -
Conducted using functional MRI or fMRI, Stanford study was published in 'The Journal of Neuroscience' last week. It studied how a child's brain reacts to their mother's voice.

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

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

Orca to elephants — Keeping large mammals in zoos is extremely damaging to their brains

Bob Jacobs -
Kiska, a young female orca captured in 1978, lives alone in a Canada aquarium. She swims in slow, endless circles and has gnawed her teeth to pulp.

Our brain has a feature that makes us less tolerant and open

Alan Sears -
The autocomplete function of human brains oversimplifies individuals and the positions they take, and makes collaborations more difficult.

It’s time to change the way we tell the story of humans. Count your neurons, not just blessings

Suzana Herculano-Houzel -
Being born with lots of neurons gives us the potential for a long and slow life. Neurons are the Lego pieces that build brains and process information.

Parenting is not just about attachment and techniques differ around the world

Sam Carr -
Japanese children, for example, are often allowed to ride the subway alone from age seven. This would be unthinkable for parents in other countries.

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Opinion

BBC scandal: Britain’s elite establishment is rapidly sinking

Bloomberg Opinion -
The impact of all this upheaval is unmooring. We search for the BBC to confirm that Britain still exists and find it missing.

Nuapada byelection may change Odisha’s political landscape. It should not be ignored

BJP’s uniformity push is harmful. Ladakh shows federalism is the core of our democracy

Economy

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

Udit Bubna -
MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

Defence

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

Keshav Padmanabhan -
At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

National Interest

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Shekhar Gupta -
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.

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