The Human Body
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Cracking joints doesn’t cause arthritis and could even serve a useful purpose
Why do people do it, is it harmful, what makes the noises and what would happen if our joints were not able to crack?
Neil Tuttle, The Conversation
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Even the young can die during sex, finds a new study
In more than half the cases of sudden cardiac death during sex, the heart was found to be structurally normal.
David C Gaze, The Conversation
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Understanding the science of ageing that Jeff Bezos wants to conquer
Ageing happens on cellular level – it isn’t just a change in how we feel or look.
Daniel M Davis, The Conversation
Trending
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Interview: India’s exaggerated value and the danger of S Jaishankar’s ‘new world order’ posturing
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Arrested, acquitted: Jigna Vora recounts her trauma after being accused in journalist J Dey’s murder
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Who was the photographer who took these dehumanising images of the Madras famine?
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‘Zara Hatke Zara Bachke’ review: Duck-and-dive comedy is a hit-and-miss affair
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Readers’ comments: ‘Most Kerala Hindus are already lost’
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How do some people live past 100 years? Studying rare mutations may crack the scientific mystery
Over 60% of centenarians have genetic changes that alter the genes which regulate growth in early life.
Richard Faragher, The Conversation & Nir Barzilai, The Conversation
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Why we find the sound of our voice cringeworthy
The discomfort is probably due to a mix of physiology and psychology.
Neel Bhatt, The Conversation
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No, not everything about men’s sexual behaviour can be explained by testosterone
The sex hormone has been mislabelled – and too often used to excuse inappropriate actions.
Matthew Gutmann, Aeon
Video
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Watch: Actor Vadivelu and AR Rahman perform the song ‘Raasa Kannu’ in Chennai
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Watch: Staff cheers as dog shot during robbery gets discharged from hospital two months later
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Watch: Cricketers Dwayne Bravo and Kieron Pollard engage in a hilarious debate over IPL’s top team
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‘So beautiful’: Fan’s special song combining several tunes by Shreya Ghoshal moves the musician
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Caught on CCTV: Constable saves passenger being dragged while boarding a moving train
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The buzz: The science of why coffee wakes you in the morning
The main active ingredients in coffee are caffeine and a suite of antioxidants.
Thomas Merritt, The Conversation
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Born this way: Evolution has hardwired us to be lazy
A study shows that it takes us less effort to embrace mechanism of a sedentary lifestyle – escalators, elevators, cars.
Boris Cheval, The Conversation, Matthieu Boisgontier, The Conversation & Philippe Sarrazin, The Conversation
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Food habits to drug use: A person’s fingerprints can reveal a lot more than just identity
Research indicates that a fingerprint could give a molecular signature that could reveal aspects of an individual’s lifestyle and environment.
Melanie Bailey, The Conversation
The Reel
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‘Scoop’ review: A flat view of a highly irregular case of police overreach
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‘Zara Hatke Zara Bachke’ review: Duck-and-dive comedy is a hit-and-miss affair
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‘School of Lies’ review: An overloaded saga of secrets and trauma
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‘Mumbaikar’ review: A dated, draining exercise
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Review: In ‘Fire in the Mountains’, the enormous burden of womanhood
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Naked Utopia: How England’s first nudists imagined the future
A century ago, utopian thinkers and practitioners predicted the coming of a nude world of liberated bodies.
Annebella Pollen, The Conversation
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The human brain’s capacity for visual imagination is severely limited. Here’s why that matters
These limitations can constrain what we are able to achieve, in daily as well as in therapeutic interventions.
Rebecca Keogh, Aeon
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Ayurveda, yoga and western medicine: Understanding the human body depends on medical tradition
A history of Ayurvedic medical concepts is being exhibited at London’s Wellcome Collection.
Suzanne Newcombe, The Conversation
The Field
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Hockey, FIH Pro League, India vs Belgium as it happened: Harmanpreet Singh and Co win 5-1
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Wrestlers’ protest: Members of 1983 World Cup team issue statement – ‘Disturbed by unseemly visuals’
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Thailand Open Super 500: Lakshya Sen reaches his first semi-final of 2023; Kiran George’s run ends
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Pro League: Harmanpreet Singh – ‘We are not letting the two losses last week play on our minds’
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IPL 2023: MS Dhoni doing well after knee surgery, confirms CSK CEO