So Much For A Clean SlateWhy We Expect So Much of Each New Year — and Every January Feels Like a Letdown The 'fresh start effect' is a human obsession that leads to disappointment by mid-January. By Satviki Sanjay
Ripple EffectsPandemic Lifestyle Has Worsened Health of University Students, Study Finds Isolation has led to unhealthier diets, less activity, and higher alcohol consumption among 18- to 22-year-olds. By Satviki Sanjay
Breathing Life Into LanguageUse of Regional Languages in Rajya Sabha Sessions Increased Five Hundred Percent in 2020 Regional languages serve as inalienable symbols of the rich multi-cultural character of the federal and democratic polity that India is. By Satviki Sanjay
Everything Is Lava2020 Is Tied For the Hottest Year on Record, Reveals NASA Data It is clear that the planet's trajectory towards increasing temperatures will not be halted by a few months shift in human activity. By Satviki Sanjay
What If...?With Expiring Copyrights, Marginalized Communities Can Rewrite Fiction History Imagine 'The Great Gatsby' with a queer, Asian, woman protagonist. By Satviki Sanjay
Diagnostic ToolResearchers Find Metabolic Markers That May Predict Patients At Risk of Recurring Depressive Symptoms The metabolic marker predicted a depressive relapse with 90% accuracy. By Satviki Sanjay
A Bright EndingIn a First, Astronomers Watch a Galaxy Die in Real‑Time The historic observations are challenging some fundamental assumptions about the trajectory of such star systems. By Satviki Sanjay
Lucrative BusinessCoaching Institutes Are Helping Students Cheat on Their GRE, Investigation Finds Students are hiring and hiding “expert” test-takers offered by coaching centers during the online GRE exam in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. By Satviki Sanjay
Empowered WomenTelangana Women Become First Female Linemen for State Power Company The company's rules had prohibited women from the role due to its physically demanding duties. By Satviki Sanjay
Menstrual ModelThane Rolls Out Low‑Cost Public Toilet Upgrade Aimed at Improving Menstrual Hygiene The city's new 'period room' offers a model that could be implemented at a large, cost-effective scale. By Satviki Sanjay
State-Sanctioned CasteismKarnataka Plans to Pay Low‑Income Brahmin Women to Marry Within Their Caste Framed as economic empowerment initiatives, the schemes just happen to ensure the 'purity' of the upper-caste gene pool. By Satviki Sanjay
First ContactWorld’s Only Telescope Powerful Enough to Detect Alien Life Opens to International Collaboration China's FAST, or Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope, was previously only open to local scientists. By Satviki Sanjay