Science & Health

Why men hit harder by flu virus than women?

In humans it's males who are stronger, as it is in many mammals and birds, but in insects and the water flea it's females, says expert.

Mar 23, 2018

By Soorya Kiran NN

Lower back pain: Old treatment methods useless, harmful, say Australian researchers

With more than 540 million people affected globally, the stifling impact from low back pain has doubled in the last 25 years. Around 25% of Australians suffer from low back pain on any day.

Mar 23, 2018

By Soorya Kiran NN

High Court awards widow S$1.2 mln in compensation against doctor, medical lab

Carol Ann Armstrong, the widow of the cancer patient Peter Traynor claimed that Quest Laboratories and Dr Tan Hong Wui failed to spot cancer in 2009.

Mar 23, 2018

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Russian homage to Hawking: Name newly discovered black hole after him

Russian scientists have discovered a new black hole on March 16, 2018, and they have dedicated it to legendary physicist Stephen Hawking

Mar 22, 2018

By Nirmal Narayanan

World Water Day: Time to mobilise humanity to save rivers, says Sadhguru

Rivers in India have been depleted by 60 per cent and around the world by 35 per cent, said Sadhguru

Mar 22, 2018

By Arul Louis

Beetroot compound may prevent Alzheimer's

Beta-amyloid is a sticky protein fragment, or peptide, that accumulates in the brain, disrupting communication between brain cells called neurons.

Mar 21, 2018

By IANS

Dinosaurs evolved frills and horns to attract mates: Study

A previous research paper from the same university found that the frill in one ceratopsian species, Protoceratops, may have evolved under sexual selection.

Mar 21, 2018

By IANS

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Not debris but deadly hydrazine from falling Chinese space lab Tiangong-1 looms large

Hydrazine which is believed to be there in the falling Chinese space station Tiangong-1 may cause death if we inhale it

Mar 21, 2018

By Nirmal Narayanan

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Hawking's ashes to be placed along the graves of Newton and Darwin

Isaac Newton was buried at the Abbey following his death in 1727, as was naturalist Charles Darwin a century and a half later in 1882.

Mar 21, 2018

By IANS

Canadian mathematician, Princeton professor Robert Langlands wins Abel Prize for 2018

The award carries 6 million Norwegian kroner ($776,000) and will be presented by Norway's King Harald V at an award ceremony in Oslo on May 22

Mar 21, 2018

By Soorya Kiran NN

Are extra-terrestrials trying to contact us? Scientists record fast radio bursts from deep space

A team of researchers have recorded three fast radio bursts from deep space, and many suspect that they are from extra-terrestrials.

Mar 20, 2018

By Nirmal Narayanan

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Heartbreaking video shows the last male northern white rhino: This is what extinction looks like

Sudan, world's last male white northern rhino, dies; 2 female rhinos left alive before extinction

Sudan, the only male white northern rhino left on the planet died on Monday due to age-related illness and making the psecies face certain extinction soon.

Mar 20, 2018

By Nirmal Narayanan

Sick traveler in flight spreads infection to others in same row or adjacent row: Study

US researchers from Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology found that an infectious passenger with influenza will most likely transmit infection to passengers in vicinity but not faraway.

Mar 20, 2018

By Soorya Kiran NN

NASA plans to launch next planet hunter on April 16

Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), the US space agency on Tuesday said it would reveal more about the mission at a media event on March 28.

Mar 20, 2018

By IANS

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Stephen Hawking's last under-review theory could have won him Nobel

The writer of 'A Brief History of Time' died at the age of 76 but he proposed some jaw-dropping studies which could have won him the Nobel prize.

Mar 20, 2018

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

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Why men hit harder by flu virus than women?

Lower back pain: Old treatment methods useless, harmful, say Australian researchers

High Court awards widow S$1.2 mln in compensation against doctor, medical lab

Russian homage to Hawking: Name newly discovered black hole after him

World Water Day: Time to mobilise humanity to save rivers, says Sadhguru

Beetroot compound may prevent Alzheimer's

Dinosaurs evolved frills and horns to attract mates: Study

Not debris but deadly hydrazine from falling Chinese space lab Tiangong-1 looms large

Hawking's ashes to be placed along the graves of Newton and Darwin

Canadian mathematician, Princeton professor Robert Langlands wins Abel Prize for 2018

Are extra-terrestrials trying to contact us? Scientists record fast radio bursts from deep space

Sudan, world's last male white northern rhino, dies; 2 female rhinos left alive before extinction

Sick traveler in flight spreads infection to others in same row or adjacent row: Study

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