Avocado or alligator pear is a large berry containing a single seed. They have a green-skinned, fleshy body that may be pear-shaped, egg-shaped, or spherical. It is also considered as one of the healthiest food in the planet because they contain 25 essential nutrients, including vitamin A, B, C, E, & K, copper, iron, phosporus, magnesium, and potassium. Avocados also contain fiber, protein and several beneficial phytochemicals such as beta-sitosterol, […]
Attention men and women! That muscle you’ve been building, you know the stuff- it’s showing up under tee-shirts as bulging biceps and your legs look amazing this summer in shorts and skirts. But did you know your muscle is doing more than making you look good; it’s actually helping you live a longer and healthier life. That’s right; you’ll look great and for an incredibly long time! According to an […]
Arsh Shah Dilbagi aka Robo, a 16-year-old student of DAV Public School, Panipat has been selected as one of the top 15 Google Science Fair 2014 global finalists for his invention – Talk. This young genius looks up to Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs “for combining technology with art and envisioning products like no other.” He also admires author Isaac Asimov and physicist Stephen Hawking. Arsh’s Talk is a pocket-friendly […]
New York: Include more vitamin B1-rich food in your diet as neurologists have underlined that deficiency of a single vitamin B1 (or thiamine) can cause a potentially fatal brain disorder. The brain disorder called Wernicke encephalopathy typically occurs in people who have disorders such as alcoholism and anorexia that lead to malnourishment. “Wernicke encephalopathy is an example of the wide range of brain diseases called encephalopathies that are caused by […]
New Delhi: Diabetes has become a common disease these days just like any other whacky flu, cough and cold. Life is certainly not easy for a diabetic as one has to maintain a healthy lifestyle throughout, since there is no cure for the disease. Offering a new hope to diabetics, researchers at Assam’s Tezpur University and West Bengal’s Visva-Bharati University have derived that natural extracts from a particular species of […]
Long-term use of pills for anxiety and sleep problems may be linked to Alzheimer’s, research suggests. A study of older Canadian adults found that past benzodiazepine use for three months or more was linked to an increased risk (up to 51%) of dementia. NHS guidelines say the drugs should be used for eight to 12 weeks at most. The French-Canadian team says while the link is not definitive, it is […]
London: British theoretical physicist and Professor Stephen Hawking has recently warned that the “God” particle could destroy the universe. He says that the Higgs boson could cause a ”catastrophic vacuum decay” that undermines space-time and destroys the universe. He has unveiled this information in the introduction to a new book of scientist lectures called Starmus . He writes, “The Higgs potential has the worrisome feature that it might become metastable […]
LONDON: Scientists have for the first time properly observed a theoretical cousin of the Higgs boson, one that inspired the decades-long hunt for the elusive particle. The Higgs field is credited with giving other particles mass by slowing their movement through the vacuum of space. The particle, which was first proposed in the 1960s, finally appeared at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN near Geneva, in 2012. The idea was […]
Aligarh: A new variant of a superbug has been accidentally discovered by researchers at the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), an expert here said. Asad Ullah Khan, associate professor and coordinator of the interdisciplinary biotechnology unit at the AMU, and his team discovered a new variant of the New Delhi Metallo-betalactamse – also called NDM-4 – from sewage water in Aligarh in February-March. “This is a dangerous sign, indicating the start […]
Washington: A new has revealed that an international team of neuroscientists and robotics engineers have demonstrated the viability of direct brain-to-brain communication in humans. The researchers have been able to conduct successful transmission of information via the internet between the intact scalps of two human subjects – located 5,000 miles apart. Study coauthor Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Director of the Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center […]
