cultures

As I entered my teens, I began to dread the prospect of flying 14 hours for dull department store lunches and walks along an ever-gray river. I craved the worldliness of New York, or Paris, or Tokyo, and wanted to own a real Chanel wallet…

A new study by the University of Barcelona has analysed the viability of a new nanomolecule as drug delivery vehicle. The results, published in the journal Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, show that liposomes designed by researchers…

United Nations World Tourism Organisation(UNWTO) recognizes villages which are an outstanding example of a rural tourism destination with recognized cultural and natural assets, that preserve and promote rural and community-based values,…

The racism at Hank's Olde Irish is 'all too familiar', says arts and culture journalist Atiyyah Khan. …

A newly compiled dataset quantitatively captures witchcraft beliefs in countries around the world, enabling investigation of key factors associated with such beliefs. Boris Gershman of American University in Washington, D.C., presents these…

People who feel a lack of personal control in their lives are more likely to prefer a culture that imposes order, according to research published by the American Psychological Association. These "tighter" cultures, in turn, perpetuate their…

Omnipose, a deep learning software, is helping to solve the challenge of identifying varied and miniscule bacteria in microscopy images. It has gone beyond this initial goal to identify several other types of tiny objects in micrographs.…

<!-- -->King Charles remembered, with gratitude, his "darling Mama". (File Photo)London: How the world has changed in seven decades — the period that Queen Elizabeth II was in the British throne — was a key theme today in the first…

Some 49% of Singaporeans say they are considering Japan for their next vacation abroad, according to the market research firm YouGov.Interest may be even higher among young citizens. Some 68% of Singaporeans aged 16 to 24 years old…

India has been home to colonies of foreign visitors since the 16th century till the country gained independence in 1947. Many foreigners even stayed back after India gained independence and made the country their home. From the architecture…