Osteoporosis is a bone condition where parts of the bone become weak increasing the risk of fractures. It is reported that about 2 million fractures occur each year due to osteoporosis. Although bone disease can affect both the sexes, women are at greater risk, particularly those over the age of 50. However doctors have warned that men are as likely to be affected by the disease as women. This is […]
Washington: Comet Siding Spring or C/2013 A1, which is the size of a small mountain, passed extremely close to the planet Mars on Sunday (19 October 2014). Wowing space enthusiasts with an event that happens once in a million years, comet C/2013 A1 made its closest encounter with Mars Sunday at 2:27 pm (1827 GMT), racing past the Red Planet at a dazzling 203,000 kilometers per hour. The rare celestial […]
NEW YORK: Some scar-forming cells in the heart have the ability to turn into cells that form blood vessels, which are required to boosts the heart’s ability to heal after an injury, an Indian-origin researcher has found, suggesting a new approach to treat heart attack. The team of researchers he led also found that a drug could enhance this phenomenon – turning the scar-forming cells in the heart, known as […]
Sydney: A new study has revealed that a mother’s previous sex partners can influence the appearance of her future child. The theory that the looks of children may be influenced by past sexual partners dates back to ancient Greece, where it was an accepted fact, but the origin of the genetics in the 20th century disregarded the idea until now. Scientists at the University of New South Wales have discovered […]
London: A 13-year-old girl from Louisiana could be the first human to be on Mars. Alyssa Carson, who is the first person to have attended all three of NASA’s world space camps, has been training to be an astronaut for nine years already and is determined to be the first person to land on Martian soil, the Independent reported. She said that she wants to go to Mars because it’s a […]
The trend of cloud computing is picking up and more and more people are making use of this. Cloud computing is a way of storing pictures, emails, documents, video clips and other data on computers elsewhere. One can’t fully rely on hard drives as they are prone to failure and one can’t always have a backup for every data. Picture this! You’ve stored all your vacation pictures in your […]
The Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine has been awarded to three scientists who discovered the brain’s “GPS system”. UK-based researcher Prof John O’Keefe as well as May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser share the award. They discovered how the brain knows where we are and is able to navigate from one place to another. Their findings may help explain why Alzheimer’s disease patients cannot recognise their surroundings. “The discoveries have […]
New York: Men, who consume alcohol have a greater risk of contracting human papillomavirus (HPV) infection, a study said. HPV is a common sexually transmitted virus, with over six million new cases reported in the US each year. The experts at https://emmausmedicalandrecovery.com/ said that studies prove that men, who consumed on an average over 9.9 grams of alcohol per day, had a significantly higher risk of HPV infection, the findings […]
LONDON: In a world’s first, a woman has successfully given birth to a baby from a transplanted womb. The donated womb came from the woman’s own mother, making it the first baby in the world born to a woman using the same womb from which she was herself born. The 36-year-old Swedish woman delivered a healthy baby boy weighing 1775g in September, 2014. Scientists announced the breakthrough in the British […]
25 years ago in the year 1987, something happened and the world felt it. The first globally synchronized meditation –commonly known as the first “Harmonic Convergence” – took place. Tens of thousands of people gathered all around the world at sacred sites around the planet to co-ordinate their intention. What intention? José Arguelles, who initiated the meditation put it this way: There comes a point when things have to change. […]
