Six Degrees Apart From Everyone
Let us start with an example. Consider having 10 friends on Facebook, where each 10 has 10 other friends who are not also your friends,...
Display screens its dirty ecosystem of pathogens
One major consideration when we talk about smartphones, laptops or television screens is the resolution of the display, and as a rough...
The curious case of cuprates
The concept of conductors and insulators is a simple one: the capability of a material to let electricity flow comes from the manner in...
What you’re missing by not reading the fine print
Among all the fundamental rights taught to us in school, one right that didn’t quite get highlighted enough was the ‘right to privacy’....
Get your dancing shoes on!
The number of people with diabetes has risen from 108 million in 1980 to 422 million in 2019. The global prevalence of diabetes among...
Virtual Politics or Traditional Town-Hall Meetings?
When the midterm election day dawned in the United States on November 6 two years ago, their government was in a pretty chaotic...
Lyme Disease: Cure by Breaking Walls
Lyme borreliosis or Lyme disease is an infectious disease that is caused by Borrelia bacterium. This disease is spread by ticks and...
Using squids to camouflage better
Squids are highly interesting animals, with peculiar features bestowed on them by mother nature. One of those things is how squids can...
Synchrony, Child Psychology, and Brain Development
Interactional synchrony refers to how a parent’s speech and infant’s behaviour become finely synchronised so that they are in direct...
Decoding virtual life’s role in real life
Facebook is always attempting to update its privacy policy, to give its users the best of the time, all the while protecting their...
Connecting Northeastern main campus with a bridge
A new pedestrian bridge was installed at Northeastern University in October 2018 to connect the university’s main campus to the...
Virtual healing
A Cerebral palsy is a group of disorders that affect movement and muscle tone or posture. It’s caused by damage that occurs to the...
Memories, attention, and their psychological effects
Do you ever catch yourself, lost, thinking about the olden times? Well, not the prehistoric periods but the nostalgic childhood days and...
Is all publicity good publicity?
The digitisation of all media has forced the news to operate in cycles that are there for a moment, and the next moment not. To catch up...
Echochambers on your feed
Facebook’s dodgy history with advertisement is one of the most researched online algorithms. The proprietary algorithm supposedly...
Discoveries: Predictable or Random
Roberta Sinatra, along with her group of colleagues, had researched the predictability of discoveries. Sinatra, visiting research...
Fake it till you make it
Medicine is one of the most coveted and noble professions- and this is no joke. The studying and knowledge part of it is one giant part...
Psychedelic pandemic
The term ‘psychedelic’ is derived from the Greek wordspsyche, “soul, mind” and delein, “to manifest”, hence “soul-manifesting”, the...
Nano features to solve problems
Using screws and wires for fixing fractured bones is a common procedure. In fact, in some cases, these may be the only solution. However,...



















