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As people age, their immune systems naturally begin to decline. This may be an important part of such age-related health problems as cancer and cardiovascular disease. But not all immune systems age at the same rate. A recent study found that social stress is associated with signs of accelerated immune system aging.
Even the most brilliant mind in history couldn’t have achieved all he did without significant help from the minds of others.
A scientific vision of development for all Indians informed the quest for independence. The present regime deploys superstition and politics based on fear to aid just a select few.
We need to understand the links between science, politics, and commercial interests. For Marxists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, these were some of the most important questions to be addressed in their work. The cross-fertilization between Marxism and science had major implications for the development of both.
A historian of science highlights the crucial achievements of non-Western scientists and thinkers.
What is it about that photograph of the Carina Nebula, taken by the James Webb Telescope, that is so intriguing? We are looking at a nursery of stars, many far bigger than our own sun. And we are also looking back in time.
As we observe World Food Safety Day on June 7, it is important to remind ourselves that while there are several threats to food safety, the most serious one come from the very high-powered, relentless efforts to promote GM crops and foods.
India’s once-thriving public vaccine manufacturers were absent during the pandemic. This was not due to a lack of capability. The problem has been active neglect by the government.
The author is not referring to the war in Ukraine, but to the capitalist war on livable ecology. There’s no war and peace, no social justice, no democracy, no demilitarization, on a dead planet, whether it is frozen in nuclear winter or melted by climate change.
Excerpts from the chapters “Scientific Temper” and “Religious Inquiries and Rationalism” from ‘Please Think: Practical Lessons in Developing a Scientific Temper’ by the rationalist.
Janata Weekly is India’s oldest independent socialist weekly.
Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
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