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Thursday, August 28, 2025
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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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Severe Hyderabad internet outages make it an IT hub without the IT part

Many offices in Telangana have asked their employees to work from home because of heavy rainfall, but it has become impossible due to the internet outages.

‘Not just Russian oil, India tapped us along on trade deal,’ says US treasury secy Scott Bessent

New Delhi: The US is not worried about the rupee “becoming a reserve currency” given that it is at an all-time low versus the...

CDS on differences on theaterisation—views welcome, final call to be in nation’s best interests

The Navy has always been on board with the theaterisation plan, but the Air Force feels splitting up air assets into several theatre commands is futile & will tie up critical systems.

That Oval Office picture for ages deserves closer Indian reading, with a geopolitical lens

Putin sees this as a victory. Europeans have decided to deal with Trump on his terms for the sake of the larger Western alliance. We look at the lessons for us in India.