B.C.’s wolverines are expanding their territory, according to a study published Monday in The Canadian Field-Naturalist. Department of Fisheries and Oceans biologist Tom Shardlow, who authored the report, says at least two wolverines have taken up residence on Princess Royal Island, 130 kilometres south of Kitimat, in B.C.’s Great Bear Rainforest. Shardlow says it’s the first proven sighting of a wolverine in the area. B.C. has 3,000 to 4,000 wolverines, […]

The rainy season is coming, the perfect breeding ground for germs and bacteria which in turn lead to water borne diseases that affects a lot of people, that’s exactly the reason why you see very few people in office. They may not be enjoying a trek on some remote mountain. “Health problems such as cold, flu, malaria or gastroenteritis are on a rise as people indulge in a lot of […]

  Adding to the benefits of avocados, scientists have found that the nutritious fruit may hold the key to beating deadly leukemia. University of Waterloo Professor Paul Spagnuolo has discovered a lipid in avocados that combats acute myeloid leukemia (AML) by targeting the root of the disease – leukemia stem cells. Worldwide, there are few drug treatments available to patients that target leukemia stem cells. AML is a devastating disease […]

  Introduction It is a well-known fact that stress disorders are increasing throughout the world. The main reasons attributed to this are rapid urbanization, overcrowding and a very hectic lifestyle with too many goals and too little time on hand. Waiting for a bus, being in a traffic jam, watching horror movies, unhappy relationships, examinations and many more factors lead to stress. These factors cause changes not only at the […]

Advice to interns: work hard and make your mark. And if you can discover a new planet while you’re at it, you could also be pushing the boundaries of our knowledge. Believe it or not, a 15-year-old boy did just that, according to Keele University in England, UK. While undertaking work experience at the university, Tom Wagg noticed a tiny dip in the light of a star as a planet […]

  Melbourne: A new study has suggested that peanuts can protect against early death from cancer and heart disease. The Maastricht University study found that men and women who eat at least 10g of nuts or peanuts and not peanut butter per day have a lower risk of dying from several major causes of death than people who do not consume them, News.com.au reported. Researchers in the Netherlands said peanuts […]

A new smartphone app for monitoring skin cancer made its debut at the World Congress of Dermatology in Vancouver on Tuesday. Maryam Sadeghi, director of the Digital Health Hub, designed the MoleScope app and device during her PhD research at Simon Fraser University. “It enables patients to have access to the same system that doctors have in their clinic,” said Sadeghi. “As a patient, I don’t have to wait 12 […]

  We humans don’t typically agree on all that much, but there is at least one thing that an impressive amount of us accept: which hand is easiest to control. If you use one hand for writing, you probably use the same one for eating as well, and most of us – around 85% of our species – prefer our right hands. In fact, “there has never been any report […]

  New Delhi: Is sending ‘kisses’ on WhatsApp or posting intense love emojis on Facebook to your spouse replacing the real act between the sheets? It would seem so, according to leading experts on sex and behavioural sciences. According to them, many young and working couples in India are now getting hooked on to smartphones and tablets, even in the bedroom, and this is having a paralysing effect on their […]

We’ve been warned enough about the downside of too much consumption of junk food. There’s no doubt that fast foods and processed foods have increased the burden childhood obesity, heart disease and diabetes and have made these chronic diseases a common lifestyle concern. Recently, the Delhi Government demanded a crackdown on junk food that is sold in schools and within 50 meters of them. In his book, Encyclopedia of Junk […]