Public smoking 16 times more polluting: Study
July 11th, 2012 - 7:53 pm ICT by IANS
Wellingdon, July 11 (IANS) If you stand next to someone smoking at a bus stop, there are fair chances that you'll be exposed to fine particulate pollution nearly 16 times ... Read more...
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New 2D cloak that ‘turns underwater objects invisible to sonar’
January 6th, 2011 - 11:45 am ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 6 (ANI): A scientist has created a two-dimensional cloak that turns objects underwater invisible to sonar and other ultrasound waves.Illinois professor Nick Fang constructed the 2D acoustic cloak made of ... Read more...
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Largest clinical trial confirms new drug for worldwide malaria treatment
November 7th, 2010 - 1:28 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov 7 (ANI): The largest clinical trial ever conducted has concluded that the drug artesunate should now be the preferred treatment for the disease in both children and adults everywhere in ... Read more...
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Brit woman suffering migraine wakes up with French accent after nap
September 15th, 2010 - 7:03 pm ICT by ANI
London, Sept 15 (ANI): A woman in Britain, who has been speaking her native English with a well-clipped accent, was left confused when she woke up from a nap and began talking ... Read more...
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Drugs used to treat addiction may help people lose weight
July 30th, 2010 - 12:19 pm ICT by ANI
London, July 30 (ANI): A combo pill of two addiction drugs can help people lose weight, say US researchers.Naltrexone, commonly used to treat alcoholics and heroin addicts, and the anti-smoking drug bupropion ... Read more...
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Tamiflu effectiveness questioned
December 9th, 2009 - 4:47 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 9 (ANI): A new study has found no clear evidence that Tamiflu prevents complications like pneumonia in people infected with flu.The study conducted by British Medical Journal (BMJ) and Channel ... Read more...
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Fashion may have emerged 80,000 years ago in form of shell beads
August 26th, 2009 - 2:53 pm ICT by ANI
London, August 26 (ANI): A new study by an international team of researchers from France, South Africa, Germany, Israel and the UK has confirmed that 80,000-year-old shell beads found in caves in ... Read more...
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Mole gene doubles skin cancer risk
July 6th, 2009 - 1:15 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, July 6 (ANI): Two genes that control the appearance of moles in people have been found to double the risk of melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, say scientists.As part ... Read more...
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Portable microwave scanner to help police detect concealed guns and knives
June 9th, 2009 - 2:23 pm ICT by ANI
London, June 9 (ANI): British scientists have developed a portable microwave scanner to help police identify individuals carrying concealed guns and knives.According to a report by BBC News, the device is ... Read more...
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Malaria developing resistance to effective drugs, warn scientists
May 29th, 2009 - 5:31 pm ICT by ANI
London, May 29 (ANI): Studies of patients in western Cambodia suggest that malaria could be developing resistance to the most effective type of drug, putting millions of lives at risk.Scientists say tests ... Read more...
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World’s oldest manufactured beads are older than previously thought
May 7th, 2009 - 2:16 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, May 7 (ANI): A team of archaeologists has claimed to have discovered the world's oldest manufactured beads in a limestone cave in Eastern Morocco, which are older than previously thought.The researchers ... Read more...
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Trickster cuckoo chicks mimic foster parents youngs cries the minute they hatch
January 5th, 2009 - 6:47 pm ICT by ANI
London, January 5 (ANI): Cuckoo chicks begin to imitate the cries of their foster parents young from the minute they hatch, an expert has said.According to Professor Nick Davies, a Cambridge ... Read more...
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Men sexually abused as kids ten times more likely to contemplate suicide
December 20th, 2008 - 12:23 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Dec 20 (ANI): Men, who have been sexually abused as children, are ten times more likely than women to consider taking their own lives, says a new study from University ... Read more...
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Gene behind body clock linked to increased diabetes risk
December 8th, 2008 - 12:36 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 8 (ANI): An international team of researchers have identified a new gene involved in regulating a persons body clock which may be linked to increased risk of type 2 ... Read more...
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British doctors perform world’’s first robotic surgery
August 23rd, 2008 - 1:34 pm ICT by ANI
London, Aug 23 (ANI): A group of British medical experts have carried out the world''s first operation using a robot to repair a condition that kills 7,000 people a year.The condition, ... Read more...
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