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Varanasi, Mar 23 (ANI): Residents formed a human chain on the banks of the Ganges river here to mark World Water Day on Sunday.

They vowed to cleanse the river of all pollutants and restore its mythological glory.Ganga is severely polluted and there is a need for joint effort. People wash [...]

Air India has been directed by the State Consumer Commission to pay Rs 1.4 lakh to a passenger for refusing to let her board a flight despite a confirmed ticket. Penalising the airlines for a “deficiency in service”, the Delhi State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has asked Air India to not only refund Rs 40,000 [...]

Washington, January 27 (ANI): People are increasingly inclining towards additional genetic testing for life altering and threatening medical conditions like mental retardation, blindness, deafness, cancer, heart disease, dwarfism and shortened lifespan from death by 5 years of age.
This has emerged following a study by researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center.
The study, however, has also shown [...]

In December 2008, Americans conducted 12.7 billion core searches, up 3% from November 2008, says ComScore, Inc., the leader in evaluating the digital world, in its today released monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace.
According to U.S. Core Search Rankings, Google Sites topped the U.S. core search market during the last month (December [...]

London, January 12 (ANI): Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have announced the discovery of an enzyme that plays a very important role in controlling the breakdown of fat.
The researchers said that in a study conducted by them, mice that had this enzyme disabled remained lean despite eating a high-fat diet, and losing a [...]

Washington, Jan 9 (ANI): New research has indicated that the ocean could rise a meter higher than the current sea level in the next 100 years, which is three times higher than predictions from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC.
The groundbreaking new research was conducted by an international team of researchers from the [...]

Washington, January 9 (ANI): University of Kentucky scientists in the United States have revealed that long-chain fats like oleic acid, which is found in olive oil, are more prone to induce inflammation.
Erik Eckhardt and his colleagues say that long-chain fats seem to promote increased intestinal absorption of pro-inflammatory bacterial molecules called lipopolysaccharides (LPS).
While dietary [...]

Washington, January 8 (ANI): A research team, led by scientists from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) claim that they have successfully used a single virus vector, instead of multiple viruses, to create induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) cells from mouse fibroblasts.
The researchers behind this breakthrough say that their work is a significant step toward the [...]

London, Jan 8 (ANI): The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered 14 runaway stars speeding through dense interstellar gas, creating weird cosmic sculptures known as ‘bow shocks’.
Astronomers led by Raghvendra Sahai of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory had been searching for ageing, bloated stars with Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys in 2005 and 2006, before the instrument [...]

Washington, Jan 7 (ANI): The brilliant afterglow of a powerful gamma-ray burst (GRB) has enabled astronomers to probe the star-forming environment of a distant galaxy, resulting in the first detection of molecular gas in a GRB host galaxy.
The explosion, designated GRB 080607, occurred in June last year.
“This burst gave us the opportunity to ”taste” the [...]

Washington, January 7 (ANI): Researchers at Children’’s Hospital Boston claim to have identified the first agents that can help do away with leptin resistance in the brain, and thereby make obese people responsive to this appetite-suppressing hormone.
Dr. Umut Ozcan, of Children’’s Division of Endocrinology, revealed that the research team made this discovery while experimenting with [...]

Washington, January 7 (ANI): Carnegie Institution scientists in the United States say that a gene, named scrawny, seems to play a significant role in keeping a variety of stem cells in their undifferentiated state.
Writing about their observations in the journal Science, the researchers said that understanding how stem cells maintain their potency has implications both [...]

Washington, Jan 6 (ANI): Observations made with NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed six dead “white dwarf” stars littered with the remains of shredded asteroids, which may shed new light on the birth of planets.
So far, the results suggest that the same materials that make up the Earth and our solar system’s other rocky bodies [...]

Washington, January 6 (ANI): Scientists at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine say that digitalis-based drugs like digoxin, which have been used to treat patients with irregular heart rhythms and heart failure for centuries, may prove helpful in treating cancer too.
The researchers came to this conclusion while researching into existing drugs that might slow [...]

London, January 5 (ANI): An Indian-origin scientist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies claims that his team have created a mouse model of the most common and deadly brain cancer called glioblastoma, which closely resembles the development and progression of naturally arising human brain tumours.
“Mouse models of human cancer have taught us a great [...]

Washington, Jan 4 (ANI): Scientists have clarified that glacial earthquakes in Greenland are caused by major ice calving events, not glacier lurching.
Satellite observations during the past decade have shown dramatic changes in flow speed on year-to-year timescales at Greenland’’s outlet glaciers.
Seismic events traced back to glaciers during the same time period have been interpreted to [...]

A decline was registered by the crime graph in the national capital compared to 2007. However, the murder cases and motorvehicle theft has increased, whereas there was fall in rape cases.
Police Commissioner Y S Dadwal informed at Delhi Police’s annual press conference in New Delhi on Friday, The capital recorded a decline in registration of [...]

Washington : Trying to eat less can be beneficial to stave off middle-age weight gain in women, according to a new study.
Researchers have found that those women who did not practice more restraint on their eating, over the time, had more than twice the risk of substantial weight gain.
“Some suggest that restrained eating is not [...]

London, November 3: An international research team has found that bacteria can directly cause human blood and plasma to clot, something that has long been thought to have been lost during the course of vertebrate evolution.
The researchers believe that their new findings may help advance scientists’ understanding of coagulation during bacterial infections, which in turn [...]

Hamburg – There is new evidence that a virus could be the cause of irregular heartbeat in millions of patients who otherwise exhibit no diagnosed reason for atrial or ventricular fibrillation, according to a team of German scientists.
The researchers at the Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in Berlin say they have uncovered the [...]