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Aromatherapy: Can essential oils really help with stress, sleep and headaches?Essential oils have gained popularity for their potential wellness benefits. Studies suggest that aromatherapy may reduce stress and improv...
Jio IPO fever grips telecom stocks: Airtel, Vodafone Idea & others rise up to 4%Telecom stocks rose sharply on as investors focused on Jio Platforms’ upcoming IPO and its implications for sector valuations. Nomura estim...
- Meet Christine Chang and Sarah Lee, former L’Oréal employees who launched Glow Recipe with $50,000 in 2014; how it grew to an estimated $100 million in annual sales
Christine Chang and Sarah Lee met while working at L’Oréal and shared an interest in Korean beauty. They saw an opportunity and later intro...
A study says taking photos to remember a trip may have a catch and one museum experiment offers a surprising twistYou photograph a beautiful place so you can remember it later.A museum experiment found that photographing whole objects was followed by po...
A study says if your kid keeps asking for the same bedtime story again, they may be learning more than you realiseYour child wants the same story again, even though you could recite it without opening the book.A 2011 experiment found that repeating stor...
A study says the urge to sing along may be automatic: Why do you join the chorus without realisingYou put on a song while doing the dishes, then realise you have been singing along.Research suggests that songs can keep playing inside the...
Global Market: European shares rise as lower oil prices lift sentiment; tech stocks slideEuropean markets saw an uptick, driven by declining oil prices that buoyed sentiment across numerous sectors. However, the technology indus...
Best horoscope this week: 5 Zodiac Signs get the strongest cosmic boost through October 18Venus remains retrograde, which could bring old emotions back to the surface. The Scorpio Moon may encourage people to look back and think ...
A study says housework starts before anyone picks up a mop: The mental work behind everyday choresSomeone may wash the clothes, while someone else remembers the detergent and works out when the wash needs doing. Those small decisions are...
Meet Aidan Guo, young entrepreneur building an AI desktop assistant, his startup has already attracted about $1.6 million in fundingGuo's interest in technology began when he was young. On his personal website, he says he started sneaker botting at the age of 13, The act...
A study says old memories may pop up for a reason: What have you been thinking about lately?You keep thinking about dinner, then suddenly remember a meal from childhood.You were never trying to look back, yet the memory arrives any...
A study says music may be doing more than filling silence while you work: Are you following the lesson or the lyrics?Music changes your mood but sometimes it is more than that. There are times when you are really busy at work, stressed and feel chaotic but...
A study says endless social media scrolling is linked to memory slips: Why everyday plans can go missingA study of 943 young adults linked problematic social media use to more self-reported memory slips. The reported difficulties involved past...
A study says procrastination may make you forget the task altogether: Why boring tasks may slip your mindA 2026 study linked boredom and procrastination to more reported lapses in remembering future plans. Prospective memory helps us remember t...
81% of Indian marketers prioritise reach, only 17% attention quality: ReportA recent report indicates that 81% of marketers in India prioritize reach in media planning. Despite this, only 17% consider attention qual...
Meet KCL, the 16-year-old with a memory sharper than 99.9% of people who can recall events from age 3 monthsA teenager known as KCL possesses an extraordinary memory, categorized as highly superior autobiographical memory. His ability to recall pe...
A study says brain circuits can change roles: Here’s how you can remember a shopping list, directions and prices at the same timeAn MIT study found that some brain circuits in mice could remember a sound, then switch to holding an action plan.The finding offers a clue...
A study says faster reactions can come with fuzzier memories: What happens when your brain knows what to expectYour brain can prepare for familiar events before they happen.A University of Sydney study found that expected events prompted faster react...
A study says staring into space does not mean your brain has switched off: Your quiet thoughts leave cluesA 2026 study published in Nature Human Behaviour offers a closer look at what happens during those quiet moments. Researchers found that th...
In 2017, Google researchers published “Attention Is All You Need”; they were solving translation, but accidentally laid the foundation for today’s AI ageGoogle Translate once struggled with long sentences because its software processed language one word at a time. This sequential reading app...