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NEW DELHI: Young adults in India ranked 60th out of 84 countries in key mental well-being parameters in the 2025 report of an ongoing global mental health study, scoring significantly poorly than their peers aged 18-34 in most parts of the world.The ‘Global Mind Health in 2025’ released Thursday by US-based Sapien Labs reveals not…
NEW DELHI: It begins innocently. One short video while waiting for a cab. Another before dinner. A few more before sleeping. Somewhere between swipe and scroll, 40 minutes pass.Short-form videos are everywhere – on Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts and similar platforms. But a global review of nearly 98,000 people, published in Psychological Bulletin, suggests that…
The daily commute once felt like an unavoidable ritual, with alarm clocks ringing too early and public transit packed with half-awake passengers. Then remote work arrived, first as a necessity and later as a choice. What started as an emergency shift slowly turned into a long-term workplace experiment. Now, after years of research tracking employees…
Health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has faced criticism after saying he recently saw a study showing that a ketogenic diet can cure schizophrenia. Mental health experts say there is no strong evidence to support calling the diet a cure.While promoting his new food pyramid, which encourages people to eat more red meat and dairy,…
Union minister Pralhad Joshi (ANI photo) NEW DELHI: Union minister Pralhad Joshi on Saturday said the Centre will study the recent US Supreme Court ruling on tariffs before making any official statement, stressing that the matter will be handled by the Piyush Goyal-led commerce ministry and Jaishankar’s ministry of external affairs (MEA).Speaking to reporters here,…
Low birth rates are no longer a private choice. They have become a social concern across many countries. In China, surveys show that fertility intentions among adults aged 18 to 35 remain low. Researchers now suggest that digital life may shape this shift. A recent study explored a link: emotional attachment to game characters and…
NEW DELHI: For thousands of families across India, the words “cancer-free” mark relief and new beginnings. But what happens after treatment ends has, until now, remained largely undocumented in the country.On the eve of International Childhood Cancer Day, researchers released findings from India’s first large, national childhood cancer survivorship programme, tracking more than 5,400 children…
A new study by the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), supported by OpenAI, has sought to ease concerns about large-scale job losses due to artificial intelligence.According to the report, generative AI is not triggering mass layoffs in India’s IT sector at present. Instead, it is reshaping how work is organised, improving…
We’ve all swooned over those butterflies-in-your-stomach moments – the ones immortalised in Bollywood movies, Hollywood rom-coms, and countless diary entries. Falling passionately in love feels like the ultimate human high, right? That intense, can’t-eat-can’t-sleep obsession that poets rave about. But here’s a question no one’s crunched the numbers on until now: How many times does…
Stuck on a puzzle? Sleeping may help you solve it, study finds Humans have long believed that dreams could be a source of creativity and a means to solving problems. It is often said that many famous ideas were inspired by dreams. Nevertheless, scientists have found it difficult to demonstrate this in a clear way….
