Science & Health

Sumatra's Leuser Ecosystem is being destroyed leaving Orangutans and tigers on verge of extinction

The Leuser Ecosystem is the last place where different species of flora and fauna like elephants, tigers, rhinos, orangutans, insects, frogs and birds, can be found living together.

Apr 13, 2017

How Apple is using technology to treat diabetes

The top secret project, which was envisioned by Steve Jobs, is aimed at tracking glucose levels accurately through non-invasive methods.

Apr 13, 2017

Art of Ruining: 10 years, Rs 13.29 crore to rehabilitate Yamuna floodplains in the wake of Sri Sri's 2016 event

The four-member committee had asked the AOL Foundation to pay reparations of Rs 100-120 crore for causing "extensive and severe damage" to the Yamuna floodplains.

Apr 12, 2017

Russia devises early warning system for mysterious Arctic blasts that could damage oil and gas industry

A pingo is a mound of earth-covered ice found in the Arctic and subarctic region; these are also referred to as hydrolaccoliths and can be as big as 2,000 ft in diameter and 230 ft in depth.

Apr 12, 2017

Futuristic agriculture: New robotic architecture may save the world from food supply shortage

A new robotic architecture for high-throughput phenotyping could help the world fight shortage of food supply in future.

Apr 12, 2017

NASA set to reveal discoveries about oceans beyond Earth!

The findings, to be revealed by NASA, have come from data collected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft and Hubble Space Telescope.

Apr 12, 2017

Greenpeace has busted Coca-Cola for producing more than 100 billion single-use plastic bottles annually!

The research showed a hike of 12 percent in Coca-Cola's single-use plastic bottles from 2008 to 2015, accounting for 60 percent of the company's global packaging

Apr 12, 2017

War on Cancer: New Liquid Biopsy will only need blood sample to detect cancer

Cancer detecting methods like solid biopsies and radioactive scans are painful and invasive and these methods are not very helpful when the tumour is unreachable, say oncologists

Apr 11, 2017

NASA's MAVEN spacecraft discovers metal in Mars upper atmosphere

The discovery may help solve the mystery of how the Red Planet transformed into an airless planet over the years and lost its ability to support life.

Apr 11, 2017

Karnataka in for a dry summer without monsoon: KRS, Kabini dams inch towards dead storage; minister advises water-rationing

Karnataka water resources minister MB Patil told farmers to stop using irrigation pump-sets as "the State cannot afford water for the second crop."

Apr 11, 2017

Pink Moon 2017: Best time and places to watch the phenomenon; how it got its name

On Tuesday, April 11, the moon will be present on the exact opposite side of the Earth from the Sun, marking the full phase of the Pink moon.

Apr 10, 2017

End of the Great Barrier Reef? Second mass bleaching means Earth's greatest natural wonder may never recover

Researchers covered more than 8,000km of the Great Barrier Reef and found that only a third of its southern region was unaffected by the bleaching

Apr 10, 2017

Climate change could send Earth's atmosphere back to the Triassic period...and that's not good

The pollution churned out by fossil fuels has increased atmospheric concentrations of CO2 from 280 parts per million (ppm) in the pre-industrialization era, to nearly 405 ppm in 2016.

Apr 10, 2017

Sorry boys, size does matter and this news is going to make you weep!

The average size of erect penis of British men was 5.16 inches, but in the latest survey it was found to be 6.1 inches!

Apr 8, 2017

Yoga benefits ulcerative colitis patients by enhancing their quality of life

It is estimated that 1 to 20 per 100,000 people get diagnosed with ulcerative colitis (UC) annually.

Apr 8, 2017