Mother’s sweet tooth bad for girls, not for boys
February 27th, 2011 - 6:02 pm ICT by IANS
London, Feb 27 (IANS) A mother's sweet tooth affect girls more than boys, especially when the baby is in the womb.
Excess sugar can block nutrients from reaching female foetuses and ... Read more...
Posted in Health |
17 dead baby dolphins found on Gulf beaches
February 23rd, 2011 - 7:27 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Alabama, Feb 23 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Observers say the number of baby dolphins that are washed ashore dead has gone up 10 times since the BP oil spill.The Institute for Marine Mammal Studies ... Read more...
Posted in World News |
107 whales die on New Zealand beach
February 22nd, 2011 - 10:23 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Stewart Island, Feb 22 (THAINDIAN NEWS) About 107 pilot whales that were stranded on a beach in New Zealand have died.48 of the mammals were euphemized and the others died naturally. Officials ... Read more...
Posted in World News |
What rat whiskers can tell us about the sense of touch
February 19th, 2011 - 12:48 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 19 (ANI): Scientists are studying how rats use their whiskers to sense the environment around them to convert the sense of touch with movement.Rats, using their whiskers, can determine all ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
UAE warns against selling diseased animals
February 12th, 2011 - 12:56 am ICT by IANS
Dubai, Feb 11 (IANS/WAM) The UAE government has warned livestock traders against selling or trading in diseased or feeble animals. The ministry of environment and water, in a circular, has warned against ... Read more...
Posted in Business |
Chemicals in male swordtail urine attract female counterparts
February 11th, 2011 - 5:22 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 11 (ANI): The urine of male swordtails is full of pheromones that drive their female counterparts crazy, according to a new research.Texas A&M biologists Gil Rosenthal and Heidi Fisher and ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
New findings offer hope to patients with damaged kidneys
February 2nd, 2011 - 5:33 pm ICT by ANI
London, Feb 2 (ANI): Scientists have discovered a cell in zebrafish that can be transplanted from one fish to another to regenerate nephrons and improve kidney function.Many non-mammalian vertebrates generate nephrons throughout ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Do plants pay a price for evolving with complex defense mechanisms?
January 29th, 2011 - 6:09 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 29 (ANI): A new study examines whether the production of defense traits against insects and mammals incurs costs to the plants.University of Zurich together with their American colleagues planted different ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Sundance Film Festival: Science Documentary Revivifies Questions Related To Language, Humans …
January 22nd, 2011 - 8:12 pm ICT by Sampurn Wire
: In the catalog of the films to be displayed at this year's Sundance Film Festival (SFF), is a documentary of the genre of science that revolves around a trailblazing ape ... Read more...
Posted in Entertainment |
Iron-rich whale poo makes ocean more productive
January 9th, 2011 - 1:03 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Jan 9 (ANI): A new study has revealed that iron-rich whale faeces make the oceans more productive.Scientists from the Australian Antarctic Division, based in Hobart, have been testing the hypothesis that ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Fruit flies shed light on parallels between cancer development, infection
January 4th, 2011 - 2:11 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 4 (ANI): A new study from The City College of New York has successfully drawn parallels between infection and the way blood cancer develops, specifically in fruit flies.The immune system ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
You are what your father ate
December 24th, 2010 - 1:50 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Dec 24 (IANS) Environmental influences, including diet, that a father experiences can be transmitted to his offspring, "reprogramming" the latter's genes. A study has thrown up new evidence that environmental ... Read more...
Posted in Health |
You are what your father ate - before you were born
December 24th, 2010 - 12:32 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Dec 24 (ANI): Scientists have discovered evidence that environmental influences experienced by a father can be passed down to the next generation, "reprogramming" how genes function in offspring.The new study, ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Caterpillars whistle to fend off attacking birds: Study
December 11th, 2010 - 6:06 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Dec 11 (ANI): A new study has found that caterpillars can whistle to fend off attacking birds.The walnut sphinx caterpillar, a type of moth larva, doesn't whistle by puckering their lips ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Like humans, fish feel pain too
December 7th, 2010 - 1:32 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Dec 7 (ANI): A new book by Penn State professor Victoria Braithwaite has suggested that fish, like most other organisms, are capable of experiencing pain and that humans can cause fish ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Pheromones only a figment of imagination
December 6th, 2010 - 2:56 pm ICT by IANS
London, Dec 6 (IANS) Pheromones are just a figment of imagination, not the hidden key to attracting the opposite sex as popularly believed.Richard Doty at the Penn State University's School of Medicine ... Read more...
Posted in Sci-Tech |
‘Attraction chemicals’ pheromones do not exist, claims scientist
December 4th, 2010 - 1:00 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 4 (ANI): Pheromones-the mysterious chemical signals that 'trigger attraction'-do not even exist, a scientist has claimed.Richard Doty at Penn State University's School of Medicine said that mammals, unlike insects, do ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Dinosaurs’ exit paved way for mammals to grow
November 26th, 2010 - 7:36 pm ICT by IANS
Toronto, Nov 26 (IANS) Extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago paved the way for mammals to grow a thousand times bigger than they had been."Basically, the dinosaurs disappeared and all ... Read more...
Posted in Environment |
Climate change hits tigers, polar bears the hardest
November 25th, 2010 - 4:06 pm ICT by IANS
London, Nov 25 (IANS) Animals like tigers and polar bears are much more vulnerable to environmental change because of their huge appetite, researchers say.Large predators suffer more than smaller species from habitat ... Read more...
Posted in Environment |
New Study Claims Dogs are Smarter Than Cats
November 24th, 2010 - 2:07 am ICT by Angela Kaye Mason
Nov 23 (THAINDIAN NEWS) A new study which was done by the researchers at Oxford University suggests that dogs are smarter than cats, according to the Daily Telegraph of London.The study was ... Read more...
Posted in World News |
Tiny cricket possesses world’s ‘biggest’ testicles
November 11th, 2010 - 4:32 pm ICT by IANS
London, Nov 11 (IANS) It may only be half the size of a human finger, but the tuberous bushcricket has the biggest testicles in the world relative to its body weight!
... Read more...
Posted in Sci-Tech |
Human evolution occurred ‘3mn yrs earlier than previously thought’
November 6th, 2010 - 1:21 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Nov 06 (ANI): A new statistical model has suggested that evolutionary divergence of humans from chimpanzees likely occurred some 8 million years ago rather than the 5 million year estimate widely ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Birds mimic alarm calls of other species to steal food
November 3rd, 2010 - 4:43 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov 3 (ANI): A new study has discovered that drongos in the Kalahari mimic the alarm calls of other species to steal food.The birds 'play tricks' on meerkats in particular, following ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
A Fifth of Species Slides Toward Extinction; Sixth Mass Extinction Underway?
October 28th, 2010 - 3:07 am ICT by Angela Kaye Mason
Oct 27 (THAINDIAN NEWS) One in every five of the world’s pant and animals species are at risk of extinction at this time, according to a shocking new study. The new count ... Read more...
Posted in Sci-Tech |
Odor coding in mammals much more complex than previously thought
October 26th, 2010 - 1:53 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Oct 26 (ANI): A new study has shown that the contribution of odorant receptors (ORs) to olfactory response in mammals is much more complex than previously thought, with important consequences for ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Wolf nannies shorten male pups’ sex lives: Study
October 24th, 2010 - 1:16 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Oct 24 (ANI): A new study has revealed that non-breeding wolves that help raise pups ultimately shorten the sex lives of the male pups when they grow up."The negative impact to ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Scientists solve the ‘annoying wet dog shake’ mystery
October 23rd, 2010 - 2:07 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Oct 23 (ANI): Seeing a dog shake and shimmy after a bath is a common sight - and now scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have figured how fast a ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
How sloths evolved their unique neck skeleton
October 19th, 2010 - 4:47 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Oct 19 (ANI): Scientists at the University of Cambridge have found how sloths evolved their unique neck skeleton.From mice to giraffes, mammals are remarkable in that all but a handful of ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Study: Teeth markings suggest that Tyrannosaurus Rex was a cannibal
October 18th, 2010 - 7:59 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Washington DC, Oct 18 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Research by scientists have yielded results which suggests that the most fearsome and dangerous Dinosaur known as Tyrannosaurus rex (T rex), believed to have existed ... Read more...
Posted in Sci-Tech |
How loss of hearing occurs with age
October 15th, 2010 - 4:49 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Oct 15 (ANI): Researchers at the University of Minnesota Medical School have found out how age-related hearing loss may occur in humans.The discovery could eventually help physicians develop drugs to combat ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
New bat species that look like Star Wars’ Yoda have been discovered
October 8th, 2010 - 8:13 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
A new species of tube-nosed bat was discovered which resembles with Star Wars Jedi Master Yoda. The bat was found in remote rainforest area of a region of Papua New Guinea.Apart from ... Read more...
Posted in Sci-Tech |
Tigers now thriving in Sathyamangalam forest once used by Veerappan
October 4th, 2010 - 5:40 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Oct 4 (ANI): Officials in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu have claimed that the number of tigers have risen in forests once used as a jungle hideout by ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Species accumulating on Earth at slower rates than in the past: Study
September 30th, 2010 - 2:42 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Sept 30 (ANI): A new study has revealed that species are still accumulating on Earth but at a slower rate than in the past.Computational biologists at the University of Pennsylvania developed ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Why women get attracted to men who look like their father
September 23rd, 2010 - 3:10 pm ICT by ANI
London, Sep 23 (ANI): All of us have at some point heard someone saying that girls fall for men who look like their fathers, and now an expert has explained why this ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
European volcanoes wiped off Neanderthals
September 23rd, 2010 - 1:49 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Sep 23 (ANI): Disastrous volcanic eruptions in Europe could have wiped out local bands of Neanderthals and indirectly affected farther-flung populations, revealed a study.Modern humans, though, squeaked by, thanks to ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |