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Topic: brain

US probes ‘mystery episodes’ causing brain injuries to its personnel abroad since 2016: NYT

Quoting sources in Pentagon, NYT report says Russian military intelligence agency GRU could be behind some of these 'episodes' reported by US personnel on overseas assignments.

You don’t have a male or female brain

Just like heart, kidneys, lungs — there is less and less evidence for different male and female brains.

Your brain has an in-built bias. It blocks out contradictory facts

Given the complexity of the world around you, your brain cuts a few corners to help process complex information quickly.

You are what you eat — the connection between memory and our stomach

In ‘The Food Mood Connection’ Uma Naidoo writes about how seeing an ex can make you nauseous, pointing to the connection between your brain and gut.

Your brain and testicles are home to viruses. Is the coronavirus any different?

There are a few places in the body that are less accessible to the immune system and where it is difficult to eradicate all viral infections.

Covid impacted our brain circuits. But here are 6 ways to undo the damage

From chronic stress, inattention to emotional numbness, we can break unhealthy mental patterns by training the brain to behave differently.

The four known ways in which the coronavirus affects your brain

The aftermath of Covid-19 has many lessons for us. One is that we may see widespread brain damage following this viral pandemic.

What happens in your brain when you disagree, especially politically

In our experiment, we asked 21 pairs of volunteers to make financial decisions. And we scanned their brains while they argued.

American scientists were able to ‘revive’ brains of dead pigs

Though cellular activity was restored in the brains, scientists are ‘still not close to actually awakening the dead brains’.

In zero gravity, this is how poorly your brain will function

Gravity remains at the top of the science agenda and how reduced gravity affects the astronauts’ health – especially their brains.

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India’s think tanks double up as lobbyists, give no disclosures. Hurt policymaking

Many 'independent' reports, intended to shape policies, are sponsored by industry groups or entities with deep pockets and vested interests. This process must become transparent.

Kerala’s silent startup surge—work near home, smooth roads, fast internet & diaspora engagement

Once seen as a fading presence on India’s investment & startup picture, the state is slowly moving up the ladder, with policy reforms & infrastructure building.

India & Israel ink agreement to share, co-develop & co-produce advanced defence tech

Agreement signed during 17th Joint Working Group (JWG) on defence cooperation. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh met Director General in Israeli Ministry of Defence Amir Baram Tuesday. 

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.