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Wednesday, March 18, 2026
TopicCognitive decline

Topic: cognitive decline

A rectangular telescope in space? US study says it may be the best bet to find life beyond Earth

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

Education can’t save you from dementia, new UK study says

Education is thought to allow a person to build a ‘cognitive reserve’ – a sort of buffer against cognitive decline. This study contradicts the idea.

Oxford study on long Covid says even mild infection spurs ‘brain shrinkage’

Study by scientists at University of Oxford’s Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging involved 785 participants. The findings have been published in the journal 'Nature'.

On Camera

Kabul hospital bombing unravels the laws of war. It puts our civilisation in danger

Learning from the Second World War, the world seemed to move toward making war subject to law and reason. These ends were, however, almost immediately subverted.

Covid, sanctions, war. Life’s rough for Surat’s small diamond units, salaries ‘not guaranteed anymore’

West Asia war threatens to push already fragile industry deeper into crisis. Latest disruption is playing out differently for bigger and small-scale players in Surat’s diamond industry.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.