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Washington, Sep 19 (ANI): Regular vigorous exercise benefits postmenopausal women just like younger women, according to two studies.

The results were based on the studies of endurance training in 50-something women.

“There is some good news here for older women in the population, in that they respond much like younger women do to training. The results are [...]

London, Sept 19 (ANI): Intake of at least three cups of tea every day can reduce the risk of diabetes by almost half, concludes a new study.

To reach the conclusion, researchers studied more than 40,000 people whose consumption was monitored for 10 years.

After analyses, boffins discovered that chemicals found in all types of tea cut [...]

Washington, Sep 18 (ANI): By-products of red wine production could now be turned into a powder for use in everything from yoghurt and chocolates to creams and face masks, thanks to a new method invented by German and Spanish researchers.

Project E! 4008 PROVINO came into [...]

London, September 18 (ANI): India’s Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Spectrometer (C1XS) has gathered data for a total of 30 solar flares, giving the most accurate measurements to date of magnesium, aluminum, silicon, calcium, [...]

Washington, Sep 15 (ANI): A previously unknown substance in spinal fluid- a beta-amyloid protein called Abeta16-could be used as a marker to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease, say Gothenburg researchers.

The findings, described in a thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, will also be useful in research into new medications.

The researchers conducted [...]

Washington, September 15 (ANI): Older adults who remain physically active, or begin exercising, have increased likelihood of having a longer life and a lower risk of disability, suggests a report.

Dr. Jochanan Stessman and colleagues at Hebrew University Medical Center and Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, concentrated on the benefits of physical activity, mainly on [...]

Washington, September 15 (ANI): Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have gained fresh insights into how anaesthesia and anaesthesia-like states are controlled in the brain, opening the door to possible new future treatments of various states of loss of consciousness, such as reversible coma.

Marshall Devor, the Cecile and Seymour Alpert Professor of Pain [...]

Washington, September 14 (ANI): Researchers from the Eindhoven University of Technology and the University of Ulm in Germany have made the first high-resolution 3D images of the inside of a polymer solar cell.

This gives them important new insights in the nanoscale structure of polymer solar cells and its effect on the performance.

The investigations shed [...]

Washington, September 14 (ANI): In a major research study, the link between declining carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the earth’s atmosphere and the formation of the Antarctic ice caps some 34 million years ago has been confirmed for the first time.

The research was carried out by a team of scientists from Cardiff, Bristol and Texas [...]

Amritsar Sep. 13 (ANI): Outraged over the rocket firing incident by Pakistan on Friday night in Attari Sector of Punjab’s Amritsar district, a group of Shiv Sena (Hindustan) activists on Sunday burnt Pakistan’s national flag here.

The Shiv Sena (Hindustan) is a local outfit.

A number of activists assembled at the Hathi Gate Chowk of [...]

Washington, Sept 12 (ANI): A new study has revealed that electrical nerve stimulation can effectively reduce neuropathic pain following a spinal cord injury.

Neuropathic pain is often difficult to relieve and usually managed with drugs such as antidepressants or anticonvulsants.

In the new study, researchers assessed the short-term effects of high- and low-frequency transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation [...]

Washington, Sept 11 (ANI): A drug previously used as an anesthetic has been found to significantly reduce suicidal tendencies in depressed patients, say researchers.

The study showed that ketamine acutely reduced suicidal thoughts when patients were assessed 24 hours [...]

London, September 11 (ANI): If engineers have their way, Earth’s polar regions would soon have watchmen, in the form of ’sailing’ spacecrafts poised above the planet, relaying vital data on polar climate change or solar storms.

“Solar sailing” has long been a dream for space engineers, who have envisaged craft [...]

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, September 11 (ANI): Using a carbon nanotube instead of traditional silicon, Cornell University researchers have created the basic elements of a solar cell that hopefully will lead to much more efficient ways of converting light [...]

Washington, September 10 (ANI): A new study by scientists has predicted the effect of global warming on spring flowers by the year 2080.

Data, taken from records dating back to the late nineteenth century, has been used to demonstrate the [...]

Washington, Sept 10 (ANI): New treatment for facial wrinkles, which combines high-intensity light from light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and a lotion made of green tea extract, could emerge as an effective alternative to Botox and cosmetic surgery.

Scientists in Germany have reported a major improvement in their potential non-invasive technique for ageing lines. It works ten times [...]

Washington, September 9 (ANI): Conducting an animal study, researchers at the University of Missouri have gained significant insights into the brain circuit that controls binge eating.

The researchers found that deactivating the basolateral amygdala, a brain region involved in regulating emotion, specifically blocked consumption of a fatty diet in a rat.

However, they were surprised to see [...]

Washington, Sept 9 (ANI): Parenthood is heightening the political ‘gender gap,’ with women becoming more liberal and men more conservative when it comes to government spending on social welfare issues, according to new research from North Carolina State University.

“Basically, women with children in the home were more liberal on social welfare attitudes, and attitudes about [...]

Washington, Sep 9 (ANI): A lung cancer oncogene, called PKCiota, is necessary for the proliferation of lung cancer stem cells, and turning it off could act as a key for the treatment of this deadly disease, according to scientists at the Mayo Clinic campus in Florida.

These stem cells are rare and powerful master cells that [...]