New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Friday launched a website that will have information on all lost children staying in children's homes in the capital. "It will be ...

London, November 20 (ANI): Researchers have come up with a questionnaire that will help determine an individual's chances of breaking their hips. Experts at the University of Nottingham have developed the system of ...

Washington, Nov 20 (ANI): A new study from University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) sheds light on why some people fall back into drugs despite undergoing a treatment. It shows that, in the ...

By Mayank Aggarwal New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) It's nothing short of a Bollywood love story. India's Zubair Khan and Bangladesh's Shazia Zarin met on Facebook, fell in love, she fled from ...

Washington, Nov 20 (ANI): Traditional endoscopes provide healthcare experts with the ability to look inside patients' bodies. A University of Florida engineering researcher has now taken the utility of the endoscope to ...

Washington, Nov 20 (ANI): Scientists have discovered a direct link between insulin-a hormone long linked to metabolism and metabolic disorders such as diabetes-and core body temperature. This is the first time the ...

Washington, Nov 20 (ANI): For anyone trying to remember a new skill, sleeping on it may be a good advice, says a new study. Scientists carried out an experiment in which sleeping volunteers ...

London, November 20 (ANI): In a new study, scientists have determined that killer bees may be among the most feared of all insects because of their sting, but they aren't too smart. Killer ...

Washington, November 20 (ANI): A team of astronomers has captured the first direct, well-resolved infrared images of a circumstellar disk around a young massive star called HD 200775, to illuminate a massive ...

London, Nov 20 (ANI): Scientists from Institute for Cancer Research have discovered an enzyme that plays a critical role in turning breast tissue into tumours. The enzyme called lysyl oxidase (LOX) has been ...

Washington, November 20 (ANI): Scientists are reporting evidence that air pollution - a well-recognized problem at major airports - may pose an important but largely overlooked health concern for people living near ...

Washington, November 20 (ANI): Scientists have discovered that defects in carbon nanotubes could lead to supercapacitors that could possibly be used for improving charge and energy storage systems in portable electronic devices ...

Washington, Nov 20 (ANI): Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have said that surgery does not lead to memory loss and other cognitive problems in older adults. In fact, ...

London, November 20 (ANI): Vicks nasal sprays have been recalled from markets in the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom, after it was learnt that they contained a dangerous bacteria. A routine ...

Washington, November 20 (ANI): A team of scientists has proposed a smart home network system that works by integrating well-known Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology into the Open Service Gateway Initiative (OSGi) ...

Washington, November 20 (ANI): In a new research, scientists from the University of Bristol, UK, have used a mathematical model to explain some of the remarkable features of mosquito hearing. Insects have evolved ...

Washington, November 20 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have found that ant farmers, like their human counterparts, depend on nitrogen-fixing bacteria to make their gardens grow. The finding documents a previously ...

London, November 20 (ANI): Older generation of drug addicts is prone to suicidal thoughts, a new Scottish study suggests. The suicide rate in Scotland among drug addicts above the age of 35 is ...

Washington, Nov 20 (ANI): Asthma is a significant risk factor for severe disease in children who get H1N1 virus compared with the seasonal flu, says a new study led by researchers from ...

Washington, Nov 20 (ANI): High irradiances of low-level laser therapy (LLLT) can worsen skin cancer, and thus should not be used over melanomas, say researchers. Researchers from Bergen University College, Norway, studied the ...

Washington, Nov 20 (ANI): Kidney transplant patients with sleep apnea are at an increased risk of high blood pressure, heart disease and stroke, according to a new study. For the study, Miklos Zsolt ...

London, Nov 20 (ANI): If you think having a medium popcorn and soft drink while watching a movie won't add much to your weight, then it's time to get a reality check, ...

Washington, Nov 20 (ANI): A plastic chemical found in consumer products, such as toys, cleaning materials, plastics, and personal care items appears to contribute to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in kids, say researchers. Korean ...

Washington, Nov 20 (ANI): A single cigarette butt is enough to kill 50 percent of fish in ponds, lakes, streams and the ocean, reveals a new study. The research team led by Elli ...

London, November 20 (ANI): Scientists have developed a Star Trek-like phaser, capable of causing paralysis with a beam of light, whose effects have been proven on worms. A phaser traditionally emits a ...

Washington, Nov 20 (ANI): Children with depressed mothers are likely to frequently suffer asthma symptoms, reveals a new study. According to Johns Hopkins researchers, maternal depression aggravates a child's asthma. They looked at 262 ...

By Sujeet Kumar Raigarh (Chhattisgarh), Nov 20 (IANS) Such is the state of medical care in Chhattisgarh that a woman had to walk 110 km for 15 days to reach a government-run hospital ...

Washington, Nov 20 (ANI): When it comes to choosing a partner, people prefer marrying those with similar ancestry, but their decisions are not necessarily based on hair, eye or skin colour, according ...

Washington, Nov 20 (ANI): In a breakthrough study, scientists have found that a synthetic bone matrix could offer hope for babies born with craniosynostosis- a condition that causes the plates in the ...

Washington, Nov 20 (ANI): A large number of pregnant women in Uganda, Africa deliberately avoid being tested for HIV, increasing the risk of mother-to-child transmission, says a study. In a new paper, researchers ...