Marriage linked to lower heart risks: US study

MUMBAI: Marriage is good for the heart. People who are married have lower rates of several cardiovascular diseases compared with those who are single, divorced or widowed, said a research paper to be presented at the American College of Cardiology's...

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Reservoirs of ice 'still hidden' below surface of Mars, new study shows

LONDON: As scientists the world over are excited about the presence of water on Mars, a new research on meteorites reveals how the water vanished from the Martian surface.The large amounts of water escaped into space within the first half-billion years...

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Underweight people at as high risk of dying as obese people: Study

MUMBAI: At a time when the world is concentrating on the obesity epidemic, Canadian researchers have found that people who are underweight have the highest risk of dying. If the risk of dying for obese people (vis a vis normal weight people) is 1.2 times...

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Chronic stress in early life causes anxiety, aggression in adulthood: Study

MUMBAI: Exposure to chronic stress in early life could bring out anxiety and aggression in later life, believe scientists from the New York-based Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Researchers from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have just published a study...

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One in 68 children has autism: CDC

MUMBAI: The number of children identified with autism is growing, with the latest estimates from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, US, suggesting that one in 68 children falls into the spectrum. April 2 is observed throughout the world...

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Scientists unveil giant leap towards synthetic life

Scientists have made the first artificial chromosome which is both complete and functional in a milestone development in synthetic biology, which promises to revolutionize medical and industrial biotechnology in the coming century.The researchers built...

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Sugary drinks cause for teenage obesity: Study

MUMBAI: A Canadian research has squarely put the blame for teenage obesity on sugary drinks. It has asked schools to take steps to reduce consumption. Teenage obesity has been growing rapidly, with India reporting almost 30% incidence of overweight...

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Cooking meat with beer may protect you from cancer

WASHINGTON: Beer, when used as a marinade, can help reduce the formation of potentially harmful cancer-causing substances in grilled meats, scientists have found.Previous studies have shown an association between consumption of grilled meats and a high...

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Autism may begin in the womb: Study

WASHINGTON: Scientists have found clear and direct new evidence that autism begins during pregnancy.Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the Allen Institute for Brain Science analysed 25 genes in post-mortem brain...

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Snag delays arrival of crew at International Space Station, Nasa reveals

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan: An engine snag has delayed the arrival of a Russian spacecraft carrying three astronauts to the International Space Station until Thursday, Nasa said on Wednesday.A rocket carrying Russians Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev...

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Its official: Goats are brainy, and how

Move over chimps and crows, there is a new brainy creature on the block — the common goat. In a first, researchers from Queen Mary University of London thought of training a group of goats to see their problem solving abilities and memory capacity. They...

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Scientists discover how to avoid a speeding ticket

LONDON: British researchers have found that there may be a way to avoid getting a dreaded speeding ticket - but only if you can travel at a sixth of the speed of light.University of Leicester students found it would be possible to become invisible to...

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2013 sixth warmest year on record

LONDON: The year 2013 has now been confirmed to have been the sixth warmest year on record.Thirteen of the fourteen warmest years on record have all occurred in the 21st century, and each of the last three decades has been warmer than the previous one,...

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Hawking's black hole puzzle solved, claims US physicist

LONDON: An American physicist may have finally plugged the hole in Stephen Hawking's black hole theory.For decades physicists across the globe have been trying to figure out the mysteries of black holes - fascinating monstrous entities that have such...

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New maps for navigating human genome unveiled

LONDON: Scientists have built the clearest picture yet of how our genetic material is regulated in order to make the human body work.They have mapped how a network of switches, built into our DNA, controls where and when our genes are turned on and off.Scientists...

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Tuberculosis affects 1 million children annually: Study

MUMBAI: Harvard researchers believe that over one million children suffer from tuberculosis annually — twice the number previously thought to have TB.Experts from the university and Brigham and Women's Hospital fear that one-third of these children may...

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Too much worry lowers chances of pregnancy: Study

NEW DELHI: Too much stress and worry may lower the chances of getting pregnant and cause infertility, a new study by researchers of the Ohio University has found. They found that stressed women are nearly 30 percent less likely to get pregnant and twice...

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Gene linked to intellectual disability critical to brain development in humans

WASHINGTON: A latest research from the University of Adelaide has confirmed that a gene linked to intellectual disability is critical to the earliest stages of the development of human brains.The gene known as USP9X, has been investigated by Adelaide...

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Anti-anxiety drugs could help 'balance' the autistic brain

Low doses of anti-anxiety drugs could hold the cure for autism. New research in mice suggests that autism is characterized by reduced activity of inhibitory neurons and increased activity of excitatory neurons in the brain, but balance can be restored...

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Genetic clues to irritable bowel syndrome found

WASHINGTON: For the first time, scientists have identified a genetic defect that causes a subset of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a finding that may help pave way for therapies for the disorder.Researchers estimate that approximately 15 to 20 per cent...

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Nasa searches for ideas to bring asteroids closer to Earth

WASHINGTON: US space agency Nasa has announced a formal proposal worth $6 million for projects that would help robots and astronauts grab an asteroid from deep space and bring it closer to Earth for further study.In support of Nasa's Asteroid Redirect...

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Cambridge University scientists develop diagnostic app

LONDON: In what could be a great boon for countries like India, scientists from the Cambridge University have developed a mobile phone application that can accurately measure colour-based or colorimetric tests for use in home, clinical or remote settings.The...

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Hunt for habitable planets from 2024

LONDON: A massive search for habitable planets orbiting alien stars will be launched in 2024. The European Space Agency mission will identify and study thousands of exoplanetary systems (those orbiting a star other than the Sun) with stress on discovering...

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Humans can detect 1 trillion smells

NEW DELHI: New research has found that humans are capable of differenciating between at least one trillion different odours and not a mere 10,000 as is popularly thought. Scientists from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) reached this estimate...

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'Chicken from hell': Bird-like dinosaur discovered

LONDON: A 12 feet long, 500 pound sharp clawed dinosaur - a killing machine dubbed as "chicken from hell" have been found by scientists to have roamed the earth along with Tyrannosaurus Rex around 66 million years ago.A team of scientists from the Smithsonian's...

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12 feet long, 500 pound sharp clawed dinosaur discovered

LONDON: A 12 feet long, 500 pound sharp clawed dinosaur - a killing machine dubbed as "chicken from hell" have been found by scientists to have roamed the earth along with Tyrannosaurus Rex around 66 million years ago.A team of scientists from the Smithsonian's...

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Nasa finds ‘zebra stripes’ in Earth's radiation belt

WASHINGTON: Earth's inner radiation belt displays a persistent zebra striped pattern generated by our planet's rotation, Nasa's twin Van Allen Probes spacecraft have found.The high-energy electrons in the inner radiation belt display a persistent pattern...

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Eat less, live long, scientists confirm

LONDON: Cutting down how much you eat and consuming smaller portions can greatly increase your lifespan.An evolutionary biologist has now confirmed why the well fed die early.She says eating less can boost healthier ageing by protecting the body's cells...

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Unique GPS system onboard airplanes to precisely monitor bad weather

LONDON: GPS on-board airplanes will now help detect precise conditions in the atmosphere and better predict weather conditions and improve hurricane forecasting across the globe.Current measurement systems that use GPS satellite signals as a source to...

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Scientists create world's first 3D printed beating heart muscles and tissues

LONDON: Heart muscles that actually beat, created artificially in the lab, have for the first time become a reality.In a major breakthrough that could repair millions of human hearts damaged after massive heart attack, scientists have for the first time...

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Antarctic moss, frozen for 1,500 years, springs back to life

LONDON: A specimen of moss that has been buried frozen in the Antarctic permafrost for over 1,500 years has suddenly sprung back to life. Interestingly, getting them to grow didn't even take any coaxing.Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey and...

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Scientists track evolution of a superbug

MUMBAI: American scientists have tracked the evolution of one of the deadliest superbugs called Klebsiella pneumoniae. They hope it will pave the way for discovery of drugs that would be effective against the superbug, said the study which appeared online...

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Blood test may help spot, monitor concussions

MUMBAI: Swedish scientists have discovered a biomarker test to predict how serious or how long it will take for a person to recover from brain injuries. At present, it is difficult for doctors to say when a patient suffering from concussion will recover....

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There's a link between diabetes, pancreatic cancer: Study

MUMBAI: The sugar imbalance disease — diabetes — can lead to pancreatic cancer, shows a research from the University of Melbourne.In a new study published on Friday in the Annals of Surgical Oncology journal, doctors and mathematicians reviewed data...

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'Little Foot' may have been humans' forefather: Study

PARIS: A short, hairy "ape man" who tumbled into a pit in South Africa millions of years ago is back in the running as a candidate ancestor for humans, scientists said on Friday.A painstaking 13-year probe has "convincingly shown", they said, that the...

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'Genes may reduce exercise gains for some senior citizens'

MUMBAI: There is no longer any doubt that exercises hold the key to good health, especially among the elderly.Daily physical regimen — be it walking, yoga or doctor-guided exercises — has been chronicled to help control various diseases ranging from...

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What should you do first: Cardio or resistance training?

MUMBAI: Should you begin with cardio exercises and then follow it up with resistance training? A group of researchers from the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland studied 200 endurance athletes to find an answer.The researchers concluded that the training...

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Ultrasound misses heart defects in fetuses if mother is overweight: Study

MUMBAI: It is important for pregnant women to undergo ultrasound scans to detect heart defects, if any, in fetuses. But a study from Sweden says that over six in every ten serious heart defects in fetuses go undetected in the ultrasound scans. The reason?...

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Scientists create world's first super rat that will help study diseases

LONDON: Scientists have created the world's first super rat — a mouse that expresses a fluorescing 'biosensor' in every cell of its body, allowing diseased cells and drugs to be tracked and evaluated in real time and in three dimensions, raising hope...

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Volcanoes helped species survive ice ages: Study

SYDNEY: The steam and heat from volcanoes allowed species of plants and animals to survive past ice ages, a study showed on Tuesday, offering help for scientists dealing with climate change.An international team of researchers said their analysis helped...

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Elephants can tell difference between human languages

WASHINGTON: African elephants can differentiate between human languages and move away from those considered a threat, a skill they have honed to survive in the wild, researchers said on Monday.The study suggests elephants, already known to be intelligent...

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