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A 2012 study found moderate drinkers solved creative word puzzles faster than sober controls — a narrow effect on divergent thinking, not advice.

Exeter researchers built a 3D printer that extrudes molten chocolate layer by layer — mass-personalized confectionery, before 3D printing went mainstream.

Spanish researchers found that people who ate the most fast food were 51% more likely to develop depression — bad for the waistline, and the blues too.

A soft-drink campaign promised 'Katrina ka number label ke andar.' The label carried a Gurgaon techie's real phone number — and the calls haven't stopped.

Forensic artist Richard Neave reconstructed Jesus with dark skin, dark eyes, and short curly hair — nothing like the fair-skinned figure in Western art.

Sham marriages between siblings and paid foreign partners were a known immigration-fraud route. The mechanics, the detection — and the desperation behind them.

By 2012 the iPhone 4S's 8-megapixel camera was eating the point-and-shoot alive. The honest answer: it depends on what you shoot.

Bin Laden's youngest wife told Pakistani investigators about nine years on the run: at least five safe houses, four children born in Haripur and Abbottabad.

California's prison physicians and psychiatrists topped state pay scales — some earning over $400,000. The numbers stunned, but the context matters more.

NBC's The Biggest Loser split its season-13 makeover week across two episodes — April 3 and April 10 — ending with a White House workout alongside Michelle

Fashion keeps sorting women's bodies into fruit and vegetable shapes — pear, apple, carrot, eggplant. The taxonomy says more about marketing than about bodies.

Walter Isaacson, Jobs's biographer, distilled his subject's leadership into 14 imperatives for the April 2012 Harvard Business Review. Here they are.

Lululemon's retail playbook included a deliberate tactic: employees stationed near fitting rooms to eavesdrop on shoppers — customer research without the

When audience members fainted at Barack Obama's rallies, his response was unglamorous and dad-like: eat and drink before you come. Why the small moments worked.

One DMV clerk, one refused donor box, and the real arithmetic of giving: a single donor’s organs reach several people on the waiting list.

In March 2012, Goldman VP Greg Smith quit in a New York Times op-ed, calling clients 'muppets.' Inside the resignation letter that shook Wall Street.

A prenup with a weight-gain penalty clause made headlines in 2012. Why body-policing contracts are legally shaky — and what they do to a marriage.

Speculation about Ashley Judd's appearance in 2012 turned into a landmark media-criticism moment. What actually happened — and what she said back.

What celebrity fitness really involves: hours in the gym, personal trainers, yoga, and strict diets. The honest truth behind the perfect bodies on screen.

Irrfan Khan, Sonali Bendre, and Rishi Kapoor spoke openly about cancer — and changed how India talks about illness. The cultural shift their honesty created.