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Asian filmmakers criticise ‘tone-deaf’ skits at Oscar...

Oscar organisers on Tuesday apologised for what a group of actors and filmmakers of Asian descent called the...

17 March 2016 3:38 AM IST

Oxford University professor solves 300-year-old mysteryNewsmakers
Oxford University professor solves 300-year-old mystery

An Oxford University professor has won a £500,000 prize for cracking a 300-year-old mystery mathematical theorem...

17 March 2016 3:35 AM IST

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Want to be happy Head to Denmark

Denmark overtook Switzerland as the world’s happiest place, according to a report on Wednesday that urged nations...

17 March 2016 3:32 AM IST

Alcohol consumption may increase breast cancer riskNewsmakers
Alcohol consumption may increase breast cancer risk

Drinking alcohol can put you at increased risk of breast cancer by enhancing the levels of a cancer-causing gene, a new...

16 March 2016 7:11 AM IST

Booker winner Anita Brookner dead at 87Newsmakers
Booker winner Anita Brookner dead at 87

Anita Brookner, the author and art historian who won the 1984 Booker Prize for fiction, has died at the age of 87, it...

16 March 2016 7:10 AM IST

‘A smart insulin patch to control diabetes’Newsmakers
‘A smart insulin patch to control diabetes’

Scientists have created a synthetic painless patch filled with natural insulin-producing cells that can control blood...

16 March 2016 12:27 AM IST

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Binge drinking can kill people in sleep

Binge drinking, often perceived as a fun rite of passage among college students, may make people vulnerable to dying in...

15 March 2016 7:10 AM IST

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New way to read lipstick in crime

Scientists have developed a new method for lifting and analysing lipstick smears from surfaces at crime scenes, which...

15 March 2016 5:17 AM IST

Palestinian wins $1 million Global Teaching PrizeNewsmakers
Palestinian wins $1 million Global Teaching Prize

A Palestinian teacher who grew up in a refugee camp has won a million-dollar award dubbed the “Nobel Prize for...

14 March 2016 2:34 AM IST

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Turning New York City’s trash into treasure

Items are displayed as part of former New York sanitation worker Nelson Molina’s “Treasure in the...

14 March 2016 2:28 AM IST

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Turning New York City’s trash into treasure

Items are displayed as part of former New York sanitation worker Nelson Molina’s “Treasure in the...

14 March 2016 2:28 AM IST

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Neither too much nor too little sleep good for you

Too much or too little sleep is linked with an increased risk of certain types of cardiovascular disease, particularly...

14 March 2016 2:25 AM IST

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