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'Coronavirus is a huge problem for India'

'India needs to do what India can do, which is to keep the number of cases down.''If it manages to keep the cases down, it will save lives.' IMAGE: People queue for COVID-19 screening at the Ram......

EXPLAINED! Santa's stealth delivery system

Katy Sheen, a physicist at the University of Exeter in the UK, explains how Santa Claus travels over 200,000 times faster than Usain Bolt, the world's fastest man. The mystery of how Father......

10 minutes of exercise can help you quit smoking

Ten minutes of cycling or jogging can significantly help people quit smoking, according to a new study. Researchers from the University of Exeter, UK, have shown that changes in brain activity,......

A formula to solve traffic woes

The next time you fail to reach office on time, stop cursing the 'rubberneckers' for causing the traffic jams. Many traffic jams leave drivers baffled as they reach the end of a tail-back to find......

Vacuuming and mopping burns 50,000 calories/year

A piece of advise for all you fitness-conscious people -- clean your house regularly, for a new study has found that the mundane task of washing the dishes or dusting the shelves helps you burn......

Dark days will soon be over for a remote tribal village in Bengal

The UK-India research project is funded by Research Councils UK and India's Department of Science and Technology. Experts from the University of Leeds, University of Exeter, and University of......

Now, bacteria to produce diesel on demand

In a breakthrough, researchers claim to have discovered a method to make bacteria produce diesel on demand. While the technology developed by the University of Exeter, with support from Shell,......

The kid who turned down $1 billion!

"I'm just lucky to be alive." Mark Zuckerberg, the 22-year-old founder and CEO of social-networking site Facebook, is talking about the time he came face-to-face with the barrel of a gun. It was......

Success? Try the M-form of organisation

Alfred duPont Chandler, Jr. is well known for being one of the first thinkers to successfully incorporate historical understanding of management trends into his analysis, thus providing a sound......

Probe ordered into Coke plant 'toxic sludge'

The Kerala government has ordered a probe into the operations of the Coca-Cola plant in the state's Palakkad district after a recent BBC study pointed out that the sludge produced by the Coke......

Footballer Jyoti yearns for space to play in Delhi

Jyoti Burrett has gathered substantial buzz around her. It is not just her debut on the national football scene at the AFC Women’s Asian Cup Qualifiers, but also her academics that......