Science & Health

Windows to the soul? Scientists explain how people judge character based on facial features

Such impressions are reliable, but also often highly inaccurate and have real-world consequences that stretch from voting to dating.

Aug 28, 2018

Breathing high levels of toxic air is equivalent to losing a year of education, say researchers

The longer people exposed their lungs to dirty air, the more damage they took to their intelligence. Language abilities were affected more than mathematical abilities and men were found to be more in harm than women.

Aug 28, 2018

Organic Arctic pollutants show remarkable decline, new study finds out why

Strict regulations have once again proven to be effective at curtailing chemical pollution, first it was the recovering ozone and now the POP levels in the Arctic

Aug 28, 2018

Spitzer Space Telescope's 15-year sojourn in space is filled with numerous discoveries

Five of the Spitzer Space Telescope's long list of greatest discoveries.

Aug 27, 2018

NASA shows how 'beautiful' wildfires can look from space by tracing aerosols in the atmosphere

The image the GEOS FP model's result for aerosol concentrations around the world as of 23 August 2018. During this time, huge plumes of smoke from fires drifted all over North America and spread out up to Africa.

Aug 27, 2018

Forehead wrinkles could be a sign of early death

The wrinkles could be a link to the cardiovascular health of the person

Aug 26, 2018

Scrub typhus claims 6 lives in Kota; city health department on high alert

Tsutsugamushi bacteria, which is generally found in the saliva of mosquitoes causes scrub typhus. The symptoms of the disease aren't easily visible.

Aug 26, 2018

Survival of the laziest - that seems to be the new mantra

According to the researchers, this study would help the scientists in predicting which species will be the next to get extinct.

Aug 25, 2018

Take out of world selfies, quite literally, with this new NASA app for common people

Recently the American space agency NASA has launched two apps for the common people.

Aug 25, 2018

NASA to launch new satellite, equipped with laser, to study melting ice sheets on Earth

Along with understanding the changes in polar ice caps, the satellite will help the scientists understand the world's forests better as well

Aug 25, 2018

Climate change impact? Arctic region's thickest ice sheet breaks off for the first time

It was expected that in this part of the Arctic the climate change effects would arrive last but now it's here

Aug 25, 2018

'Hybrid technique' used to remove 9-month foetus-sized tumour from woman's womb

The 47-year-old woman had a giant, four-kilogram tumour. The surgery lasted close to three hours.

Aug 25, 2018

Kerala deluge: UK charity blames climate change for floods, claims it is a 'wake up call'

Studies also show that climate change could lead to a reduction in winter rainfall in India, causing drought in the dry summer months and an increase in the monsoon season, leading to more flooding.

Aug 25, 2018

Can these hybrid 'Super snakes' pose a threat to Florida?

The study showed that most of the snakes were closely related to Burmese pythons but 13 of them had the genetics of the Indian python

Aug 25, 2018

Earthquake of 7.1 magnitude strikes near Peru-Brazil border

The epicentre of the earthquake was 83 miles west of the Peruvian village of Inapari and 140 miles west of the Bolivian city of Cobija.

Aug 24, 2018