Children love sweets, but have you ever wondered why some kids want more sugary food? It could be because they need more sugar to get that same sweet taste, suggests new research. “Some children are twenty times better at detecting sugar than others,” said study author Danielle Reed from Monell Chemical Senses Centre, a non-profit independent scientific institute in the …

Records tumbled at Christie’s auction held in Mumbai with an untitled work by India’s foremost abstract painter Vasudeo S Gaitonde fetching a jaw-dropping Rs.29.30 crore. Five bidders, on telephones and in the room, battled closely for Gaitonde’s work. Besides soaring above its pre-sale estimate, the work also broke the previous auction record of Rs.23.70 crore set by the artist at …

Smartphones will become obsolete within five years and would be replaced with artificial intelligence, according to a consumer survey by the Ericsson owned ConsumerLab. Half of the study’s respondents said they thought mobile technology would be redundant by 2021 as the growth of artificial intelligence starts enabling interaction with objects without the need for a phone or tablet, Sydney Morning …

Most people can tell if you are angry by looking at your face or behaviour but what if how you move a computer mouse can predict your anger or frustration? According to professor Jeffrey Jenkins from Brigham Young University, people experiencing anger and other negative emotions like frustration, confusion and sadness become less precise in their mouse movements and move …

The works of Sita Ram, who illustrated the world around for Lord Hastings, reveal his ability to distinguish sight from insight So little is known about Indian painters of the past that, whenever from their world of silence, one hears another whisper, another faint sound, one feels grateful. Perhaps, even a bit relieved. For, far too long has one lived …

Smartphones, tablets and e-readers should have an automatic “bedtime mode” that stops them disrupting people’s sleep, a study revealed. Researchers from Evelina London Children’s Hospital sleep medicine department, King’s College London and the University of Surrey, measured short-wavelength blue light devices like tablets (iPad Air), e-readers (Kindle Paperwhite first generation) and smartphones (iPhone 5s) emit when displaying text or a …

Author: Bhanu Dhamija Publisher: Harper Collins Pages: 384 Price: Rs.550 Was “familiarity” the only reason why India adopted a parliamentary system of governance? In his book “Why India Needs the Presidential System”, author Bhanu Dhamija, himself a publisher, seeks to answer this question, while extending some radical thoughts on how we should be governed. “The Indian system began to break …

आ गये दिन लौट कर, कंबल रज़ाई के। सज गये दूकान पर फिर ऊन के गोले, पत्नियों के हाथ में टंगने लगे झोले, देखने लायक हुए नखरे सलाई के। धूप पाकर यूं लगा, ज्यों मिल गई नानी, और पापा–सा लगा, प्रिय गुनगुना पानी, हो गये चूल्हे, कटोरे रसमलाई के। ले लिया बैराग मलमल और खादी ने, डांट की चाबुक थमा …

Born: December 14, 1918, Bellur, Karnataka Died: August 20, 2014, Pune The full name of BKS Iyengar, one of the most renowned yoga gurus in the whole world, is Belur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar. Popularly known as Yogacharya BKS Iyengar, he is man who founded the Iyengar Yoga. The guru has been teaching people the art of yoga since the past …

मेरा उसका परिचय इतना वो नदिया है, मैं मरुथल हूँ। उसकी सीमा सागर तक है मेरा कोई छोर नहीं है मेरी प्यास चुरा ले जाए ऐसा कोई चोर नहीं है। मेरा उसका नाता इतना वो खुशबू है, मैं संदल हूँ। उस पर तैरें दीप शिखाएँ सूनी सूनी मेरी राहें। उसके तट पर भीड़ लगी है, कौन करेगा मुझसे बातें। मेरा …