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A healthy group of captive Tasmanian devils will soon be roaming freely on an island off Tasmania’s east coast.
Scientists from Tasmania’s Save the Devil Program have hand picked 80 captive male and female devils of all ages for release on Maria Island.
It is the first time the program has released healthy captive devils into the [...]

London, Mar 20 (ANI): Wondering what wedding present to buy for your friend? Well, a gym membership might be a good idea. A new study has claimed that people who are married are twice as likely to become obese than their single counterparts.
And Greek boffins put the blame on changed lifestyle for the increased weight, [...]

Scientists says real-time tracking devices should be commercially available within five years to let farmers know exactly where their herds are grazing.
A research team from the University of New England has conducted a trial in western New South Wales using GPS cattle collars.
It showed steers only used 10 to 20 per cent of the paddock [...]

Washington, March 19 (ANI): A new American study has found that cell division in cyanobacteria is controlled by same kind of circadian rhythms that govern human sleep.
The research conducted by scientists at MIT and the University of California at San Diego has appeared in the March 18 online edition of Science.
Previous research has demonstrated that [...]

New Delhi, Mar. 15 (ANI): The UN International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chairman, Dr R K Pachauri, today said that he would not resign over what he called “one mistake” reported in the IPCC report.
Accepting that he and his team had erred in declaring a complete meltdown of the Himalayan glaciers by the year [...]

London, March 15 (ANI): Pregnant women with gum disease are more likely to give birth prematurely than mothers-to-be with good oral health, according to a new US study.
The research by scientists at the University of Pennsylvania suggests that successful treatment for gum disease can cut the risk of pregnant women giving birth early, reports the [...]

Australian engineers say they are missing out on the booming Liquefied Natural Gas, LNG, industry because design contracts are being given to overseas firms.
A report tabled in the West Australian Parliament has recommended the State Government include high-level engineering work in the local content requirement for major projects.
The report found just half the contracts on [...]

An Australian-led Antarctic whale expedition is on its way home after six weeks in the Southern Ocean.
It has been dubbed the largest collaborative whale research voyage with 17 scientists from Australia, New Zealand and France.
They have been tagging, collecting biopsies and taking photos of various whale species.
The findings of the research will be presented to [...]

London, Mar 5 (ANI): A new report has claimed that frozen vegetables can often contain more nutrients than fresh ones.
Scientists from the Institute of Food Research claimed that produce which is frozen soon after being picked with have more nutrients sealed in, reports The Telegraph.
The research was carried out by the Institute on behalf of [...]

Washington, September 17 (ANI): Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen have mapped the history of the melting of the Greenland ice sheet.

Numerous drillings have been made through both Greenland’s ice sheet and small ice caps near the coast.

By analyzing every single annual layer in the [...]

London, Sept 17 (ANI): Boffins have developed an amazing skeleton robot that moves just like humans.

The creation is known as an “anthropomimetic robot”.

Using human anatomy as a blueprint, scientists have replicated tendons using kite lines.

And used elastic bands to mimic the bounce of a muscles, reports The Sun.

The University of Sussex [...]

Washington, Sep 12 (ANI): Even the most well-built people tend to loose their muscles and develop thinner arms and legs as they get older, and researchers in Nottingham have now explained why this happens.

As age catches up, it becomes harder to keep our muscles healthy-they get smaller, which decreases strength and increases the likelihood of [...]

Chambaghat (HP), Sep 11 (ANI): Over 600 farmers from across the country learned about mushroom growing and marketing in a one day festival held at Chambaghat in Himachal Pradesh.he Directorate of Mushroom Research (DMR) had organised the fair at Chambaghat in Solan district where farmers from 14 states, including [...]

Melbourne, September 11 (ANI): If you’re having trouble finding a partner for yourself then just take a less attractive friend along the next time you go to a party.

According to scientists in the UK, people’s opinions are often based on the company others keep, and [...]

Washington, Sept 10 (ANI): It is often said that scientists are press shy, and those who aren’t, are mavericks. Now, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have debunked the theory.

A survey of 1,200 researchers in the areas of epidemiology and stem cell research has revealed that the interplay between scientists and journalists has been remarkably stable since [...]

Washington, Sept 9 (ANI): Scientists from University of California have identified a gene in anthrax-causing bacteria that could be used as a potential therapeutic target for the deadly disease.

The ClpX gene in bacterium Bacillus anthracis not only contributes to the severity of the anthrax disease but also makes it more difficult for a patient’s immune [...]

London, Sept 8 (ANI): When it comes to controlling emotions, baby chimps do it better than human babies, concludes a new study.

The research, which investigated the facial expressions of young chimpanzees, may explain why some babies cry so much and are so inconsolable.

In the study, scientists found that baby chimps almost always cry for a [...]

Washington, September 6 (ANI): Scientists have attached the world’s smallest satellite tags to the members of the rare and rapidly declining Kittlitz’s Murrelet seabirds, in order to track them.

Most of these birds are found in remote, glaciated regions of Alaska, but their wintering grounds have long been unknown.

Thanks to tiny solar-powered satellites tags that [...]

Washington, September 3 (ANI): A team of scientists in California have announced the creation of a ‘NanoPen’ that can simplify the method of laying down patterns of nanoparticles-from wires to circuits-for making futuristic electronic devices, medical diagnostic tests, and other much-anticipated nanotech applications.

Writing about their work in ACS’ Nano Letters, Ming Wu and colleagues point [...]

Washington, September 2 (ANI): A single gene promotes development of essential tremor in some patients and Parkinson’s disease in others has been identified by an international team of researchers.

In a study report published in Parkinsonism and Related Disorders, Mayo Clinic researchers in Florida and their collaborators worldwide note that patients with essential tremor shake [...]