Unique tooth gave T Rex that bone-crunching bite
Toronto, July 29 (IANS) The killer machine T Rex and its fellow theropod dinosaurs were successful predators partly due to a unique, deeply serrated...
New study has implications for criminal interrogation
London, Jan 16 (IANS) Innocent adults can be manipulated to believe, over the course of a few hours, that they had committed heinous crimes...
Every hour spent sitting may increase diabetes risk
London, Feb 5 (IANS) Even with exercise, every extra hour you spend sitting at a computer or in front of the television is linked...
Binge drinking as teenagers results in anxious adults
New York, April 3 (IANS) Binge drinking during adolescence may perturb brain development and have lasting effects on genes and the behaviour of an...
How eyelash length keeps your eyes healthy
New York, Feb 25 (IANS) Researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered that 22 species of mammals, including humans, have eyelash length one-third...
Increase in body size didn’t drive human evolution: Study
Washington, Aug 4 (IANS) Challenging prevalent theories, a new study suggests that the earliest members of the Homo genus (which includes our Homo sapiens...
Catch the breath to catch drug abuse
Amsterdam, March 8 (IANS) Scientists have developed the first fully validated and robust method to check drug abuse in exhaled breath.
The procedure involves a...
Now, a low-cost test to detect cancer fast
Tokyo, Feb 13 (IANS/EFE) Japanese multinational Hitachi and Kyushu University hope to develop a new low-cost test to detect cancer in one hour, by...
Energy drinks trigger hyperactivity in school children
New York, Feb 10 (IANS) Middle-school children who consume heavily sweetened energy drinks are 66 percent more likely to be at risk for hyperactivity...
Male seahorse nourishes baby like human mom
Sydney, Sep 2 (IANS) Male seahorses play as much a part in nurturing embryos during pregnancy as female mammals, suggests a new study. Previously...
