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Compared to artificial tears, or eye drops, human tears are significantly more complex liquids, with a wide range of components including lipids, carbohydrates, proteins, water, and salt. It is this complex mixture that gives tears the…

Humans contain multitudes. Each person on the planet contains enough DNA to stretch to Pluto -- several times. Studying how all this genetic material works, and especially how genes influence human behavior, is an enormously complicated…

There’s something especially enchanting about a movie in which the characters make a film (think Sunset Boulevard or The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou); by highlighting the artifice of the medium, it tends to expose the complexities of…

Carnegie Mellon University's Yongxin (Leon) Zhao and the Chinese University of Hong Kong's Shih-Chi Chen have a big idea for manufacturing nanodevices. Zhao's Biophotonics Lab develops novel techniques to study biological and pathological…

Inflatable soft actuators that can change shape with a simple increase in pressure can be powerful, lightweight, and flexible components for soft robotic systems. But there's a problem: These actuators always deform in the same way upon…

To mark her momentous occasion, the most special one indeed, Alia Bhatt chose to personalise her mehendi ensemble with a sustainable approach. Designed by ace fashion designer Manish Malhotra, the gorgeous fuchsia pink trousseau featured…

Express News Service When interacting with an ardent film buff, I prefer the conversation to be as uninterrupted and unhinged as possible. Unfortunately, Chennai’s weather played spoilsport when my telephonic…

An animated trajectory map shows the path of the Lucy mission, with the spacecraft (blue) launching from the Earth (green) out to the asteroids around Jupiter (orange).NASANASA's latest exploration spacecraft launched over the weekend,…

Deathloop is the first game to make me risk my life for an audiolog. It’s the latest release from Arkane Studios, a studio best known for helping keep the lineage of “immersive sims” alive through first-person action games like…