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Washington, May 18 (ANI): Researchers have now turned towards clay - a naturally occurring substance recognized since antiquity for its medicinal properties - to kill a range of pathogens.
Washington, May 18 (ANI): Researchers from the SETI Institute, the Mars Institute, NASA Ames Research Center, and the space robotics company Honeybee Robotics, have successfully completed a first series of field tests aimed at investigating how humans will explore and work on near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) and eventually the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos.
London, May 17 (ANI): Retirement has a harmful impact on mental and physical health, a new study has revealed.
Sydney, May 17 (ANI): Researchers from Australia have found that women spend almost twice as much time on housework and childcare than men, even when they increase their time in paid employment.
Washington, May 16 (ANI): In a surprise discovery, Melbourne scientists have found that malaria parasites can 'talk' to each other.
Washington, May 13 (ANI): The way an individual regulates their emotions, in bad times and in good, can influence whether - or how much -they suffer from anxiety, a new research has suggested.
Rio de Janeiro, May 13 (IANS) The number of new guns legally sold in Brazil shot up in the last eight years, growing from 5,161 in 2004 to a record 31,500 in 2012, a media report said.
New York, May 12 (ANI): Gwyneth Paltrow has said that Costume Institute gala was 'un-fun' and 'too crowded' and she's never going again.
Washington, May 12 (ANI): Adolescents are just as likely to consume too many calories at Subway, which they considered a healthy dining option, as at McDonald's, a new UCLA study has revealed.
Washington, May 11 (ANI): US Vice President Joe Biden cracked a joke thanking the firefighters for saving his Corvette, while honouring them at the 25th Annual National Fire and Emergency Services Dinner of the Congressional Fire Services Institute.
Milan, May 10 (IANS/EFE) The economic and financial reforms implemented to deal with the financial crisis must have the support of "the majority of the political parties" in Spain, Spanish Business Council for Competitiveness, or CEC, executive director Fernando Casado said.
Washington, May 7 (ANI): Thanks to NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, researchers are beginning to dissect an exotic class of exoplanets, called hot Jupiters, revealing raging winds and other aspects of their turbulent nature.
London, May 6 (ANI): The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, was located 300 miles to the north in Babylon's greatest rival Nineveh, a leading Oxford-based historian has claimed.
Brussels, May 4 (IANS/EFE) Spain will be given time till 2016 to bring its budget deficit down below 3 percent of gross domestic product, in line with European Union mandates, European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs Olli Rehn said Friday.
Washington, May 2 (ANI): Those feeling uneasy wearing contact lenses can simply switch to a different lens/solution combination or use a lens care product to eliminate this persistent problem and provide "a maximally comfortable result, according to a new study.
New Delhi, May 2 (IANS) A black and white scene from Satyajit Ray's iconic 1955 film "Pather Panchali" featured as the Google doodle Thursday as a tribute to the master craftsman on his 92nd birth anniversary.
Washington, May 2 (ANI): Dual parenting may be more beneficial than single parenting, a new study suggests.
New Delhi, April 30 (IANS) Fortis Healthcare Limited, a chain of private healthcare providers, Tuesday launched its flagship "next-generation" hospital, the Fortis Memorial Research Institute (FMRI) in Gurgaon, an official said here Tuesday.
London, April 30 (ANI): US President Barack Obama has spent more time playing golf than in meetings that were organised for fixing the American economy, according to statistics revealed on April 30.
Tokyo, April 30 (ANI): India on Tuesday was elected to the governing council of the prestigious Statistical Institute of Asia Pacific (SIAP), one of the most active organs of the United Nations.
Madrid, April 30 (IANS/EFE) Spain's year-on-year inflation rate fell by one percentage point to 1.4 percent in April, compared to the previous month, the National Statistics Institute, or INE, said in its preliminary consumer price index for the month.
La Paz, April 30 (IANS/EFE) Bolivia's gas sales to Brazil and Argentina surged 29.5 percent to $1.49 billion in the January-March 2013 period, compared to the same quarter last year, state-owned oil company YPFB said.
London, Apr. 26 (ANI): A new keyboard layout has been created that will make 'thumb-typing' faster on touch screen devices such as tablets and large smart phones.
Washington, Apr 26 (ANI): Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and the Pasteur Institute in France have been able to identify how alcohol might affect key brain proteins for the first time - thanks to a rare bacteria that grows only on rocks in the Swiss Alps.
Washington, April 26 (ANI): Scientists have discovered a potential strategy for developing treatments to stem the disease process in Alzheimer's disease.
London, Apr. 24 (ANI): George W Bush's presidential library opening will be like a wedding without alcohol.
London, April 23 (ANI): A new type of immune cell in skin that plays a role in fighting off parasitic invaders such as ticks, mites, and worms, and could be linked to eczema and allergic skin diseases has been discovered.
London, April 22 (IANS) Scientists have found specific genes associated with a rare liver disease that could provide a valuable tool for therapy, says a study.
New Delhi, April 21 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, who underwent surgery for sinusitis two days ago, has recovered successfully, a doctor said Sunday.
Melbourne, Apr. 20 (ANI): Businesses lose 11.4 billion dollars every year due to employees taking coffee breaks, a new study has claimed.
New Delhi, April 19 (ANI): Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit was sucessfully operated upon today for sinuses by a team of ENT specialists at the Fortis Escorts Institute, New Delhi.
Havana, April 19 (IANS) Cuba and China are scheduled to sign a collaboration agreement to enhance the current ties in sports next Monday.
Washington, April 18 (ANI): The factors that predict whether adults will stay together or part ways don't seem to apply to teenagers, new research suggests.
Washington, April 18 (ANI): A research team at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics has created a new keyboard called KALQ that enables faster thumb-typing on touchscreen devices.
Washington, April 18 (ANI): Genome sequencing of a historic fish has provided a wealth of information on the genetic changes that accompanied the adaptation from an aquatic environment to land.
New Delhi, April 17 (IANS) Gone are the days when earning money, buying a car or a flat were the sole aims of life -- young people in India these days want more out of life, and strive to balance personal life and work, often in that order of priority, a new study has found.
Sydney, Apr. 17 (ANI): Controversial Australian radio broadcaster Alan Jones is facing an online backlash after suggesting on national television that 'left-wing radical students' were behind the Boston Marathon bombings.
Washington, Apr 17 (ANI): Removing the foreskin causes a significant shift in the bacterial community or microbiome of the penis, a new study has revealed.
Washington, April 16 (ANI): A new study from researchers at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology has found surprising evidence that suggests the need for a revamped approach to dengue vaccine design.
Washington, April 12(ANI): A team of scientists has shed light on how the hominid Australopithecus sediba (Au. sediba) walked, chewed, and moved nearly two million years ago.
Washington, April 12(ANI): A new study has identified the specific brain activity that makes new music rewarding and predicts the decision to purchase music.
New York, April 12 (IANS) The Nobel medal awarded to Francis Crick in 1962 for his discovery of DNA was sold here at an auction for more than $2 million.
Washington, April 12(ANI): A team of scientists has shed light on how the hominid Australopithecus sediba (Au. sediba) walked, chewed, and moved nearly two million years ago.
Washington, April 11 (ANI): An Indian scientist and his Taiwanese colleague have discovered a blue supergiant star located far beyond our Milky Way Galaxy in the constellation Virgo.
Singapore, April 10 (IANS) The Fukushima nuclear disaster may delay the growth of the world nuclear energy market by 10 years, an expert from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Wednesday.
Sydney, April 10 (IANS) Australian consumer confidence stumbled unexpectedly in April after strong gains in the past two months, a survey released Wednesday by the Westpac Banking Corp and Melbourne Institute found.
London, April 9 (ANI): In the near future we may have a tent that blocks light on a dry and sunny day, and becomes transparent and water-repellent on a dim, rainy day.
Washington, April 8 (IANS) Scientists of the Life Sciences Institute at the University of Michigan have shown that growth of white muscle due to exercise can help keep blood sugar level in check.
Kolkata, April 8 (IANS) India's chartered accountants will provide undertake capacity building and provide training in around 21 nations in Africa, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) announced here Monday.
London, April 8 (ANI): A long-held belief that whitening of skeletal muscle in diabetes is harmful has been busted.
London, April 8 (ANI): Using a number of cutting edge approaches, including optogenetics, researchers at the University of Calgary's Hotchkiss Brain Institute have shown that stress circuits in the brain are capable of self-tuning following a single stress.
Washington, April 8 (ANI): A genome wide study has identified four new genetic variants associated with severe childhood obesity.
Washington, April 7 (ANI): UCLA researchers have developed a new brain-imaging tool to help identify signs of cognitive decline early on in individuals who don't yet show symptoms of dementia.
London, Apr. 6 (ANI): A group of researchers has built a prototype of an ultralight, inexpensive and robust flying drone that can be operated upon by one person and give a detailed 360-degree view of their surroundings.
Bhubaneswar, April 6 (IANS) At least five students from Odisha's KIIT University are set to participate in an annual aero-design competition to be held in California, USA next week, the university said Saturday.
Washington, April 5 (ANI): NASA's Kepler space telescope has witnessed the effects of a dead star bending the light of its companion star- a result of Einstein's general theory of relativity - in binary, or double, star systems.
Washington, Apr 4 (ANI): To this day turbulence lacks a fundamental mathematical theory.
Washington, Apr 4 (ANI): A new study in rats has found that stimulating a key part of the brain reduces compulsive cocaine-seeking, suggesting the possibility of changing addictive behavior generally.
Washington, Apr 4 (ANI): Sexual dimorphism has evolved in animals because such traits help males to obtain additional offspring.
Madrid, April 3 (IANS) Princess Cristina of Spain was named Wednesday as a suspect in a corruption case involving her husband.
Washington, Apr. 3 (ANI): Only 0.6 percent of 10-year-olds, 1.1 percent of 11-year-olds and 2.4 percent of 12-year-olds have had sex, a new study has claimed.
Melbourne, Apr. 2 (ANI): The poorly designed Y chromosome, which makes men is degrading rapidly and will disappear, even if humans are still around, an evolutionary geneticist has claimed.
Washington, Apr 2 (ANI): Although best known for promoting erections, sildenafil may also serve as a weight loss aid by coaxing our bodies to store more healthy "brown fat" relative to unhealthy "white fat" than it would otherwise do on its own, a new study suggests.
Washington, Mar. 30 (ANI): Estrogen plus progestin use has been linked with increased breast cancer incidence, a study has found.
Washington, Mar 30 (ANI): The dazzling rings of Saturn and its moons are likely to be more than 4 billion years old, scientists have claimed.
Washington, Mar 30 (ANI): Although scientific evidence suggests that vaccines do not cause autism, approximately one-third of parents continue to express concern that they do, a new study suggests.
Washington, March 29 (ANI): In a new study, researchers have found that house mice (Mus musculus) showed a definite preference for mating with individuals from their father's original population.
London, Mar. 28 (ANI): Producing vaccines against viral threats is a potentially hazardous business, which is why manufacturers choose to operate under strict controls to ensure that no pathogens escape to the outside world.
Geneva, March 27 (IANS) A 73-year-old man from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has died in Germany from infection of a novel disease coronavirus, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.
London, March 2 (ANI): Scientists have shown that a single nanowire can concentrate the sunlight up to 15 times of the normal sun light intensity.
Washington, Mar 25 (ANI): People lost 25 percent less weight if they ate lunch after 3 pm, a new study has found.
Washington, March 21(ANI): Men who have children when they are older have a greater chance of having grandchildren with autism compared to younger grandfathers, a new research has revealed.
Tel Aviv, March 20 (IANS) US President Barack Obama arrived onboard Air Force One at the airport of Tel Aviv in Israel Wednesday, starting his first visit as US president to the Jewish nation that is a staunch ally.
Washington, Mar 20 (ANI): A study led by researchers at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience may hold a stunning breakthrough in the fight to treat Alzheimer's disease.
San Juan, March 20 (IANS/EFE) Puerto Rico's unemployment rate came in at 14.6 percent in January, 0.7 percentage points lower than in the same month of 2012, Labor Secretary Vance Thomas said.
Washington, March 19 (ANI): Elite athletes excel not only in their sport of choice but also in how fast their brains take in and respond to new information - cognitive abilities that are important on and off the court.
Washington, March 19 (ANI): NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has found evidence of water-bearing minerals in rocks near where it had already found clay minerals inside a drilled rock.
Washington, March 19 (ANI): Controlling or preventing risk factors such as hypertension earlier in life may limit or delay the brain changes associated with Alzheimer's disease and other age-related neurological deterioration, a new study has suggested.
Stockholm, March 18 (IANS/RIA Novosti) China has become the world's fifth largest exporter of major conventional arms, replacing Britain, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said in a report Monday.
Washington, Mar 17 (ANI): China has replaced Britain as the world's fifth-largest arms exporter, which is the country's highest ranking since the Cold War, with Pakistan the main recipient.
Washington, Mar 16 (ANI): A new poll has found that only 10 percent of the Israeli population believes that US President Barack Obama is supportive to the nation.
Bangalore, March 15 (IANS) The Indian government has cleared 63 proposals for foreign direct investment (FDI) in single brand retail since the measure was allowed last year, union Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma said Friday.
London, Mar. 15 (ANI): A woman from Serbia views everything upside down because of a problem in the way her brain processes images.
Vancouver, March 15 (IANS) Canada will soon become one of the world's largest exporters of energy products and gain significant economic benefits from it, according to a study.
Havana, March 14 (IANS/EFE) Camilo Vives, known for his work on Cuban classic films such as "Lucia" and "Fresa y Chocolate" (Strawberry and Chocolate) and regarded as the island's leading cinema producer, has died in Havana, official media reported. He was 71.
Madrid, March 14 (IANS) Spanish annual inflation stood at 2.8 percent in February, 0.1 point higher than the previous month, the Spanish National Institute of Statistics (INE) said here.
Madrid, March 11 (IANS) Spain faces a fall of around 10 percent in its population over the next 40 years, according to a forecast by the Spanish National Institute of Statistics (INE).
Washington, Mar. 10 (ANI): Researchers have been able to predict survival rates among patients with heart disease based on the length of strands of DNA found on the ends of chromosomes known as telomeres.
Washington, March 8 (ANI): Images provided by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have helped scientists to create, for the first time, a 3-D reconstruction of ancient water channels below the Martian surface.
London, March 6 (ANI): Combining genetic repair with cellular reprogramming, researchers at the University of Minnesota's Lillehei Heart Institute have generated stem cells capable of muscle regeneration in a mouse model for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD).
Washington, March 6 (ANI): Researchers at the University of Michigan have found that a molecule in green tea can prevent misfolding of specific proteins in the brain, which is associated with amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's disease.
Washington, March 5 (ANI): Women who receive strong social support from their families during pregnancy are less likely to develop postpartum depression, according to a new study.
Washington, Mar. 4 (ANI): Researchers are testing the power of holography to artificially stimulate cells in the eye, with hopes of developing a new strategy for bionic vision restoration.
Washington, Mar 3 (ANI): One of literature's oldest mysteries is a step closer to being solved after a recent study dated the ancient Greek poet Homer's great epic 'The Illiad' to 762 BC.
Washington, March 1 (ANI): Researchers believe a diagnostic "cocktail" containing a single drop of blood, a dribble of water, and a dose of DNA powder with gold particles could help improve diagnosis and treatment of the world's leading diseases in the near future.
Washington, March 1 (ANI): Researchers believe a diagnostic "cocktail" containing a single drop of blood, a dribble of water, and a dose of DNA powder with gold particles could help improve diagnosis and treatment of the world's leading diseases in the near future.
Madrid, 'Ma Mar 1 (IANS/EFE) The Spanish economy contracted 0.80 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012 as consumer spending continued to weaken, the National Statistics Institute, or INE, said.
Washington, February 28 (ANI): Researchers have developed a genetically modified protein that, in experiments with animals, reverses vitiligo, an autoimmune disorder that causes unsightly white patches on the face, hands and other parts of the body.
Washington, February 27 (ANI): Scientists are using memristors- electronic microcomponents that imitate natural nerves- as key components in a blueprint for an artificial brain.
Singapore, Feb 27 (IANS) Scientists in Singapore have successfully produced kidney cells under laboratory conditions, without using animals or cells from other organs.
