Toronto, Nov 12 (IANS) Scientists have come up with a fast, inexpensive dipstick test which can identify traces of pesticides in food and beverages. Their paper-strip test is more practical than conventional ...

Washington, Nov 8 (ANI): A new study has found that oral contraceptives might benefit women with asthma. The research team from McMaster University in Hamilton, ON, Canada found that women with asthma who ...

Washington, Nov 7 (ANI): Listening to music can significantly enhance human brain's ability to distinguish between various sounds, say researchers. While analysing brain's electrical and magnetic signals, lead researcher Laurel Trainor, from McMaster ...

Washington, Nov 6 (ANI): A new study has found that oral contraceptives might benefit women with asthma. The research team from McMaster University in Hamilton, ON, Canada found that women with asthma who ...

Washington, Oct 26 (ANI): Listening to music can significantly enhance human brain's ability to distinguish between various sounds, say researchers. While analysing brain's electrical and magnetic signals, lead researcher Laurel Trainor, from McMaster ...

Washington, Oct 25 (ANI): Listening to music can significantly enhance human brain's ability to distinguish between various sounds, say researchers. While analysing brain's electrical and magnetic signals, lead researcher Laurel Trainor, from McMaster ...

Washington, Oct 15 (IANS) Siblings, grown from the seeds of the same mother, play nice when planted next to each other. But the moment one of them is thrown in with strangers, ...

Washington, October 15 (ANI): In a new study led by a scientist of Indian origin, it has been determined that plants may not have eyes and ears, but they can still recognize ...

Toronto, Oct 15 (IANS) Identity theft and online fraud are likely to harm e-business prospects in the long run, warn experts, who are asking legislators to strengthen laws against cyber crime. Susan Sproule ...

Washington, Oct 6 (ANI): A diet rich in fat could damage muscle health in pre-diabetic teenagers despite any problem in muscle function, says a new study. Researchers at McMaster University have reported ...

Washington, Oct 2 (ANI): A new study has found that surgical masks appear to be as effective as N95 respirators in shielding health-care workers from flu infection. The N95 respirator is a protective ...

London, Sep 28 (ANI): In a breakthrough discovery, McMaster University researchers have revealed an ideal starting point to develop new interventions for resistant infections. Led by Eric Brown, the researchers have identified a ...

Washington, Sep 27 (ANI): Don't feel like having the energy to go for a run after a rough day at the office? Well, then blame it on your limited willpower, says a ...

Toronto, Sep 25 (IANS) Have you ever sat down to work on a crossword puzzle only to find that you don't have the energy to exercise later? Or have you come home ...

Washington, Sep 25 (ANI): Don't feel like having the energy to go for a run after a rough day at the office? Well, then blame it on your limited willpower, says a ...

Washington, Sept 17 (ANI): Like humans, novice fruit flies tend to learn from their more experienced counterparts i.e. mated fruit flies, say researchers. While looking for the evolutionary roots of social learning in ...

Toronto, Sep 12 (IANS) Dead animals, from insects to crustaceans, emit the same death stench. This smell acts as a signal to other insects to avoid disease or predators, biologists have discovered. David ...

London, September 10 (ANI): Scientists have discovered that when animals die, their corpses exude a particular "stench of death" that repels their living relatives, who avoid others that have succumbed to the ...

Washington, August 10 (ANI): A new review suggests that limb-sparing surgery may not provide a bone cancer patient with a better quality of life than amputation. Published in the journal Cancer, the ...

Washington, Aug 6 (ANI): What you eat depends on with whom you eat, that's the conclusion of a new study. The study conducted by researchers at McMaster University appears in the online version ...

Toronto, Aug 6 (IANS) Women count their calories when dining with men, but not so when eating with other women, says a new Canadian study. Research at Canada's McMaster University at Hamilton near ...

Washington, Aug 5 (ANI): Hip and back fractures increase mortality rates in older adults, says a McMaster University study. The research, to be published August 4 in the online edition of the Canadian ...

Toronto, July 20 (IANS) Diabetes has reached epidemic proportions in India, and the country faces huge health, social and economic consequences from it, warns an Indian-origin expert based in Canada. Sonia Anand, who ...

Washington, July 14 (ANI): People finding it difficult to soothe their babies need not worry about their parenting skills anymore, for a new study suggests that children's temperament may be due in ...

Washington, July 14 (ANI): Soon, technology that is used to make office inkjet printers may be used to develop paper-based biosensors that can detect certain harmful toxins that can cause food poisoning ...

Washington, June 16 (ANI): Researchers at McMaster University have discovered the existence of two types of males of a fiercely invasive fish spreading through the Great Lakes, which might help explain how ...

Washington, June 14 (ANI): A group of engineering researchers at McMaster University in Canada has installed a new flexible solar cell technology to power lighting for night-time transit users. The bus shelter ...

Washington, June 4 (ANI): McMaster University researchers say that they have identified a specific class of pharmaceutical drugs that may be effective in treating babies vulnerable to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), ...

Toronto, June 4 (IANS) A specific class of drugs could be effective in treating babies vulnerable to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). SIDS is the unexpected death during sleep of an apparently ...

Toronto, May 21 (IANS) Does rushing a patient to hospital after a mild heart attack improve his or her chances of survival? It doesn't help much, says a new Canadian study led ...