Graphic processing units based brain research helps robot perform tasks

PUNE: Two researchers in Japan have used graphic processing units(GPUs) and the CUDA parallel programming model to create a 100,000 neuron simulation of the human cerebellum, one of the largest simulations of its kind in the world. Interestingly, they...

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Drug-resistant malaria parasite discovered

LONDON: Scientists have discovered three new drug-resistant strains of the malaria parasite in Cambodia, which they say have spread to other parts of Asia as well.The parasites are genetically different from other strains around the world and are able...

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Drug-resistant malaria parasite discovered

LONDON: Scientists have discovered three new drug-resistant strains of the malaria parasite in Cambodia, which they say have spread to other parts of Asia as well.The parasites are genetically different from other strains around the world and are able...

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It's official: Cellphone use can be contagious

LONDON: Using a cellphone is contagious, according to a new study which found that a person is twice as likely to talk on a mobile, or check for messages, if a companion did the same. Females are more likely to use their cellphones than men because it...

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New therapy to end insulin jabs for diabetics

LONDON: Daily insulin shots for diabetics may soon be passe. Scientists have found a solution to control blood sugar and in fact cure diabetes from within the human body. Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) scientists have discovered a hormone, betatrophin,...

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Having fewer kids helping women live longer, grow taller & slimmer

LONDON: Women are becoming taller and slimmer as they are living longer and are having fewer kids due to improved health-care and nutrition, a new study claims.A Durham University study of people living in rural Gambia shows that the modern-day "demographic...

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Space debris problem now urgent: Scientists

PARIS: Governments must start working urgently to remove orbital debris, which could become a catastrophic problem for satellites a few decades from now, a space science conference heard on Thursday.Since 1978, the total of junk items whizzing around...

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Earth's core 1000 degrees hotter than thought

LONDON: The temperature near the Earth's centre is 6000 degrees celsius, 1000 degrees hotter than last reported 20 years ago, scientists have found.These measurements confirm geophysical models that the temperature difference between the solid core and...

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Nasa observes meteors colliding with Saturn's rings

WASHINGTON: The first direct evidence of small meteors breaking into streams of rubble and crashing into Saturn's rings has been found by Nasa's Cassini spacecraft.These observations make Saturn's rings the only location besides Earth, the Moon and Jupiter...

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How you sneeze may hold clues to your personality

WASHINGTON: Are you a snorter or a squeaker? The way you sneeze can reveal a lot about your personality, a new US study suggests. The way we sneeze reflects certain components of our personality, said Dr Alan Hirsch, a neurologist, psychiatrist and founder...

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Found: Genes that delay pregnancy

NEW YORK: Researchers, led by an Indian-origin scientist, have identified genes which help female mice and some other mammals delay the onset of pregnancy. Unlike in humans, the remarkable ability, known as embryonic diapause, is a temporary state of...

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Just one sugar-sweetened drink a day ups risk of diabetes

LONDON: Drinking one 336ml serving size of sugar-sweetened soft drink a day can be enough to increase the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by 22 per cent, researchers have warned. The increased risk of 22 per cent is for each extra 336ml sugar sweetened...

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New flu passes more easily from bird to human: WHO

BEIJING: A lethal new strain of bird flu that emerged in China over the past month appears to jump more easily from birds to humans than the one that started killing people a decade ago, World Health Organization officials said on Wednesday.Scientists...

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Hubble captures possible 'comet of the century'

NEW YORK: NASA's iconic Hubble Space Telescope has captured the clearest view yet of Comet ISON, which experts believe could become one of the brightest comets ever seen when it lights up the sky later this year.Comet ISON was discovered in September...

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Asian monsoon getting predictable

NEW DELHI: While the monsoon in India may be as unpredictable as always, the met department could take a leaf out of the US's book. A Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego-led study reports on a crucial connection that could drastically improve...

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​Gujarat scientists set to decode Indian genes

AHMEDABAD: Ten years ago, the prestigious Human Genome Project (HGP) was completed giving scientists a first glimpse of the massive instruction book that orchestrates all the complexities of human biology. Of the 200 people pooled for the project, however,...

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3,000-year-old skeletons found in Indonesian cave

MELBOURNE: Archaeologists have discovered remains of 66 humans dating back to 3000 years in a cave in Sumatra island of Indonesia. The team which excavated the Harimau or Tiger Cave also found the first example of rock art in Sumatra besides the discovery...

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Mysterious water on Jupiter came from comet smash

PARIS: Enigmatic traces of water in the upper atmosphere of Jupiter came from a comet that crashed into the giant planet in 1994, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Tuesday. Astronomers have been debating the water for 15 years after telltale molecules...

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​‘Life began before Earth was born’

WASHINGTON: Life existed long before Earth came into being, and may have originated outside our solar system, scientists claim. Researchers say life first appeared about 10 billion years ago — long before Earth, which is believed to be 4.5 billion years...

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Depression leads to heart disease and vice versa

WASHINGTON: A researcher at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, has identified factors in the brain that distinguish susceptibility and resiliency to depression and heart disease comorbidity.The finding would be a major advance in predicting, preventing...

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Biggest family tree of human cells created

LONDON: Scientists have created the biggest family tree of human cells yet, mapping unique factors for an incredible 166 different cell types that exist in an individual's body. Cells are the basic unit of a living organism. The human body consists...

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It's official! Crying babies calm down when carried

NEW YORK: Parents, please note! Picking up and carrying a crying infant will automatically calm the child, even slowing down the fast beating of its heart, a new study has found.Japanese researchers found that when mothers in the study carried their...

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Can quakes actually calm the Earth?

NEW YORK: A 8.6-magnitude earthquake that struck the Indian Ocean in 2012 may have had a calming effect on the other quakes in the world, a new study has claimed.The powerful quake near Sumatra, Indonesia, seemed to have actually quietened the global...

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Scientists want Higgs boson to be renamed

LONDON: What's in a name? A lot - at least as far as the Higgs boson is concerned.Some leading scientists want the elusive God particle, called Higgs boson after its discoverer Peter Higgs, to be renamed in order to also credit the other researchers...

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Two Earth-like planets that could host life discovered

WASHINGTON: NASA scientists have discovered two new Earth-like planets in the habitable orbit of a Sun-like star, 1,200 light-years away, which could potentially host life.Using observations gathered by NASA's Kepler Mission, the team, led by William...

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Scientists take 8 year olds to Everest to help find future cure for patients in ICUs

LONDON: The world's highest peak will now help scientists study how human bodies cope with the low oxygen levels experienced at extreme altitude.A dedicated team of intensive care doctors, nurses and scientists are taking more than 200 people to the...

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Now, an Indian effort to cut childhood vaccine prices

LONDON: First, Indian generic drug firms gave the world anti-AIDS and anti-cancer drugs at less than half the global price.Now, another Indian company will help bring down global cost of immunising millions of the world's most vulnerable children against...

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A giant mother galaxy found from the Universe's infancy

A super-massive galaxy 12.8 billion light years from Earth has been discovered giving birth to the equivalent of an astonishing 3000 Suns every year. It contains stars with a total mass nearly 40 billion times the mass of our Sun, and is shrouded in...

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Key link between obesity and type 2 diabetes discovered

MUMBAI: New research published in the journal 'Cell Metabolism' has identified a key mechanism in the immune system involved in the development of obesity-linked type 2 diabetes. The findings open up new possibilities for the treatment and prevention...

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India needs more paramedical staff trained in respiratory medicines-- panel of government medical colleges

MUMBAI: The over burdened doctors in the chest medicine departments in most of the government medical colleges in India may be relieved by developing a new paramedical specialty- 'The respiratory therapists' says a forum of heads of the departments (HODs)...

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Were 'hobbit' hominids island dwarfs?

PARIS: Japanese scientists on Tuesday waded into a row over so-called " hobbit" hominids whose remains, found on a remote Indonesian island a decade ago, have unleashed one of the fiercest disputes in anthropology.The most detailed computerized scan...

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‘Discussing salary still an office taboo’

NEW YORK: When it comes to discussing salaries, most employees still follow the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy, according to a new global study.Discussing salary is still an office taboo and a majority of workers admit they are not only uncomfortable...

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A star-burst spewed iron, bacteria on Earth consumed it

Debris containing iron from a star that exploded 2.2 million years ago was consumed by bacteria on earth, scientists have discovered. This is the first biological signature from an event in deep space. Scientists led by Shawn Bishop of the Technical...

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Scientists may have detected dark matter particle

WASHINGTON: For the first time, scientists, including an Indian-origin physicist, have observed concrete hints of a particle behind the elusive dark matter that is believed to hold the cosmos together but has never been directly observed. The international...

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Want to curb your hunger pangs? Try skipping a rope

NEW YORK: Aerobic exercise that involves vertical movements of the body such as rope-skipping can curb feelings of hunger and fatty food cravings, a study has found.The researchers set to find out whether the " gut disturbance" that happens during exercise...

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Lab-made rat kidneys raise hopes for dialysis patients

NEW YORK: Scientists have discovered yet another way to make a kidney - at least for a rat - that does everything a natural one does, researchers reported on Sunday, a step toward savings thousands of lives and making organ donations obsolete. The latest...

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Skin cells directly turned into brain cells

WASHINGTON: US researchers say they have directly converted ordinary skin cells to the type of brain cells destroyed in patients with multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy and other myelin disorders.The breakthrough research at Case Western Reserve School...

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Polio vaccine developer Koprowski dies

PHILADELPHIA: A pioneering scientist who developed a polio vaccine used two years before Jonas Salk's injectable version has died. Dr. Hilary Koprowski was 96.Koprowski developed an oral vaccine using the live polio virus that was first used on humans...

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New technique to yield gold from crop plants

NEW YORK: Scientists have developed a new technique which they claim can grow and harvest gold from crop plants.The technique of finding gold called phytomining uses plants to extract particles of the precious metal from soil.Some plants have the natural...

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Meditation can increase your body temperature

SINGAPORE: Feeling cold? Try meditation! Meditation can make you feel warmer, a new study conducted in Tibet suggests, which found the core body temperature can be controlled by the brain.Researchers led by Associate Professor Maria Kozhevnikov from...

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Found: New 2m-year-old human ancestor with a pigeon-toed gait

LONDON: A part-human and part-ape-like creature that existed two million years ago in South Africa, had a pigeon-toed gait, human-like front teeth, and was an able climber, new research has found. Researchers at Wits University in South Africa, including...

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Apple-shaped body ups risk of kidney disease

LONDON: People with apple-shaped bodies are more prone to serious kidney diseases, a study published in American Society of Nephrology has found.Indians mostly have such physical features with concentration of fat around abdomen. The study said people...

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Many Russians expect contact with aliens

MOSCOW: Almost one in four Russians (23 per cent) expect the human race to be contacted by representatives of an alien civilization in the next 50 years, says an opinion poll.But a majority (53 percent) said they did not believe in aliens. The poll quizzed...

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People with apple-shaped bodies at risk of kidney disease

WASHINGTON: High blood pressure in the kidneys of people with apple-shaped bodies may put them at an increased risk of developing kidney disease later in life, according to a new study. The study published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology...

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