Soya-wheat mix can help protect immunity of HIV patients: Study

CHENNAI: Adding a soya-wheat mix fortified with vitamins to the diet of HIV-positive people, along with regular treatment, can safeguard their immunity and general health, a new study has found.The study by National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis...

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New blood test predicts breast cancer years ahead

LONDON: A new blood test can predict if a woman would get breast cancer in the next two to five years and could create a "paradigm shift" in early diagnosis of the disease, reports a new study."The method is better than mammography, which can only be...

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NASA reveals first-ever colour image of Pluto

WASHINGTON: NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, set to fly by the Pluto system on July 14, has sent its first colour image of the dwarf planet and its largest moon Charon."The image reveals tantalising glimpses of this system," Jim Green, director of NASA's...

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Now, herbal tea that fights malaria

WASHINGTON: A new study has revealed about the journey of the antimalarial tea from herbal remedy to licensed phytomedicine.The herbal remedy derived from the roots of a weed, which was traditionally used to alleviate malarial symptoms, was combined...

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Turn corpses into compost and let life bloom

By: Catrin EinhornCULLOWHEE (North Carolina): The body of the tiny 78-year-old woman was brought to a hillside at Western Carolina University still clad in a blue hospital gown. She was laid on a bed of wood chips, and then more were heaped atop her....

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NASA telescope finds planet deep within our galaxy

WASHINGTON: NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has teamed up with a telescope on the ground to find a remote gas planet about 13,000 light years away, making it one of the most distant planets known."We do not know if planets are more common in our galaxy's...

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Killer robots worry United Nations

LONDON: Robots which can decide what to kill are all set to change the face of modern warfare but has left the United Nations seriously worried.A major multilateral meeting on "lethal autonomous weapons systems" (LAWS) is taking place in Geneva at present...

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'Dwarf planet' Ceres spawns giant mystery

VIENNA: First classified a planet, then an asteroid and then a "dwarf planet" with some traits of a moon -- the more scientists learn about Ceres, the weirder it becomes.And new observations of the sphere of rock and ice circling our Sun between Mars...

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Muscle-building supplements may up testicular cancer risk

WASHINGTON: Men who take muscle-building supplements are at a higher risk of developing testicular cancer, a new study has warned.Researchers found that men who use muscle-building supplements, such as pills and powders with creatine or androstenedione,...

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Tail bone reveals dinosaur's sex

TORONTO: Differences in size and shape of tail bones can differentiate fossils of male dinosaurs from those of females -- at least for some small feathered species, researchers report.The key differences between the sexes lie in bones near the base of...

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