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HT reviewer Lamat R Hasan picks her best read of 2020
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON DEC 19, 2020 05:16 PM IST
A study of the pandemic states that it is not unprecedented and will be as easily forgotten as the ones that went before

iPad-generation kids good at reading facial emotions too
By Indo Asian News Service| Posted by Kabir Bhandari | Indo Asian News Service
UPDATED ON MAY 09, 2020 06:04 PM IST
In some good news for parents who are worried at their kids spending too much time with screens, researchers report that today’s children are not bad at reading emotions and picking up cues from people’s faces than children who didn’t grow up with tablets and smartphones.

Looking younger might be easier after this study
By Asian News International | California
UPDATED ON JAN 31, 2020 07:55 AM IST
According to a study by the researchers of UCLA, a specific type of artificial intelligence called machine learning, rhinoplasty or cosmetic nose surgery is a way to make women look younger up to three years.

Bringing Kasturba to Life
By Malavika Sangghvi | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON JAN 06, 2020 01:05 AM IST
Ever since she burst upon the scene in Dev Anand’s ‘Hare Rama Hare Krishna’ in the early seventies as the Western-oriented, weed-smoking, hip-swinging Janice, the University of California-educated Aman, very much a SoBo-bred girl, had captured the public imagination as the epitome of the urban sophisticate

University professor brings soft toys to class every week, reason makes Twitter emotional. Watch
By Trisha Sengupta | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON NOV 03, 2019 01:15 PM IST
Twitter user Amy, on November 1, shared a video of her university professor taking out soft toys from his bag.

50 years after internet conception, dark side stirs fear
By Agence France-Presse | San Francisco
UPDATED ON OCT 30, 2019 09:31 AM IST
The name ‘internet’ is a shortening of the ‘internetworking’ allowed when one computer network could collaborate with another.

This common chemical used in mouthwash and cosmetics can cause colon cancer
By Faye Flam, Bloomberg | Bloomberg
UPDATED ON JUL 05, 2018 04:36 PM IST
There is growing evidence that triclosan — one of the main antibacterial chemicals incorporated into soaps, cosmetics, mouthwash, and toothpaste — is unsafe. Here’s all you need to know.