Researchers have found that contrails - the white lines that airplanes leave behind in the sky - are a major cause of global warming and their impact on the climate was expected to triple by 2050. The study, published on Thursday in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and...
Ladies, take note. Women who are exposed to high pollution levels in India are at significantly higher risk of suffering from hypertension, warn researchers. The research, published in the journal Epidemiology, studied 5,531 adults from 28 peri-urban villages near Hyderabad city. ...
Researchers have developed an Artificial Intelligence-enabled tool which uses Machine Learning (ML) algorithms that will soon play a critical role in predicting heart attacks and other cardiac issues. The Coronary Computed Tomography Arteriography (CCTA) gives highly detailed ...
San Francisco has become the first major city in the US to ban the sale of electronic cigarettes, a measure that affects both brick-and-mortar stores and online retailers. The 11 members of the city and county's board of supervisors on Tuesday ...
In order to improve women's lives and household nutrition and health outcomes in rural India, policies need to be context-specific, taking into consideration factors such as caste and location, says new research led by an Indian-origin scientist from University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich, England....
People who take cholesterol-lowering statins may be at twice the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, says a new study. Statins are a class of drugs that can lower cholesterol and blood pressure, reducing the risk of heart attack and stroke. More than a quarter of middle-...
Customers find foods in today's marketplace to be too sweet, researchers that analysed nearly four lakh food reviews said. "This is the first study of this scale to study food choice beyond the artificial constraints of the laboratory. Sweet was the most frequently ...
Researchers have found that oral steroid use in patients with inflammatory diseases significantly increases the risk of infection and the risk increases with higher doses. The study, published in the journal CMAJ, picked over 40,000 adult patients with ...
Researchers have found that human sperm retains its complete viability within the different gravitational conditions found in outer space. The results could be a huge boost to zillionaires like Amazon founder Jeff Bezos who see the "colonisation" of space as an answer to the Earth's ever ...
The US researchers have discovered viruses that can infect bacteria in kitchen sponges, which may prove useful in fighting bacteria that cannot be killed by antibiotics alone. The study presented on Sunday at American Society for Microbiology's annual ...
