How brains make meaning
Life Desk :We all have particular experiences or particular things -a favorite song, for example- that mean much more to us than others.Now, researchers who’ve...
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Women getting more seats in the boardroom
Life Desk :The number of women sitting at the table in corporate boardrooms across the country is rising very slowly, but it’s rising.Just over 15...
Gun violence research underfunded in USA
Life Desk :More than 30,000 people die each year from gun violence in the United States, a higher rate of death than any industrialized country...
Fight cancer with nutrition therapy
Fahmida Hashem :Cancers are among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. According to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, cancer is the sixth leading...
Back to roots
Life Desk :They might not be the best looking thing on earth but then looks aren’t everything. Root vegetables have long been given the cold...
Gardens in a glass
Life Desk :Imagine a world in a glass. The deep, dark earth, lush green plants and even tiny living beings all living and breathing in...
Are you drinking too much water without realizing?
Life Desk :We are often told to drink as much water as possible. Celebrities’ often cite this elixir as their beauty secret and we are...
Earthen cookware
Life Desk :A new generation of ceramic makers is dishing up some highly-creative crockery, especially with the return of slow cooking.Who doesn’t love fine crockery?...
Woman kept alive for six days without lungs
Life Desk :A 33 year old patient from Canada was kept artificially alive for 6 days before undergoing a double lung transplant.The patient was suffering...
New mathematical model to limit the transmission of malaria
Life Desk :Female Anopheles mosquitoes are responsible for the transmission of malaria, which is caused by the one-celled Plasmodium parasite. A variety of environmental factors...
Women can play football to reduce blood pressure
Life Desk :Football Fitness can be an effective and broad-spectrum medicine for women with high blood pressure. Football has shown to be equally effective as...
Building a leprosy free country
World Leprosy Day (WLD) is annually observed around the world, including in Bangladesh, on the last Sunday of January. This year, it will be observed...