Climate can grind mountains faster than imagined
The study, conducted by a team of scientists from 10 countries, culminated more than a decade of fieldwork.
Dec 01, 2015, 13:28 PM IST
Environment has extensively shaped human brain
These findings could also have important implications regarding human susceptibility to degenerative diseases.
Nov 17, 2015, 15:32 PM IST
Scientists refrigerate water with laser for the first time
The discovery could help industrial users "point cool" tiny areas with a focused point of light.
Nov 17, 2015, 15:05 PM IST
Breathe slowly to smell food better, shows 3D model
In the past, physiologists looked at the nasal passages, but not at the pathway from the back of the mouth to the nose.
Nov 15, 2015, 16:25 PM IST
Enzyme find can help fight autoimmune diseases
AGS is a rare genetic disorder that mainly affects the brain, while SLE can affect the skin, joints, kidneys, brain and other organs.
Nov 02, 2015, 10:48 AM IST
Sharing husband could boost family health and wealth!
These findings support evolutionary anthropological accounts of marriage indicating that polygyny can be in a woman's strategic interest when women depend on men for resources.
Oct 29, 2015, 12:25 PM IST
Global warming 'tipping points' identified
Many of these events occur for global warming levels of less than two degrees, a threshold sometimes presented as a safe limit.
Oct 16, 2015, 17:57 PM IST
Ebola treatment beds prevented 40,000 deaths in Sierra Leone: Study
With many cases in Sierra Leone potentially going unreported, the real figure is likely to be much higher, the study said.
Oct 13, 2015, 12:23 PM IST
Our ancestors' diet shifted much earlier than thought
Our ancestors made the shift from a diet based on trees and shrubs to grass-based foods -- that include not only grasses and their roots, but also insects or animals that ate grass -- roughly 400,000 years earlier than experts previously thought, says new research.
Sep 16, 2015, 21:27 PM IST
Breast-feeding might reduce risk of autism
Consuming mother's milk might reduce the risk of autism in babies with a genetic predisposition to the disorder, according to a study.
Sep 15, 2015, 23:51 PM IST
Decoded: How muscles build bones during exercise
Although exercise is a well-known stimulus for new bone formation, it has remained unclear how muscle “talks” to bone despite their close proximity. An Indian-origin scientist and his team have now figured out how this process takes shape.
Sep 15, 2015, 18:02 PM IST
