Health & Medicine
A therapist at your fingertips
15 Mar 2012
Early heart-healthy choices pay off later
By By Erin White | 13 Mar 2012
Lifestyle choices made in your 20s can impact your heart health in your 40s
Pregnant women on antidepressants less likely to breastfeed
By By Nicole Chavez | 10 Mar 2012
Exercise changes the DNA
09 Mar 2012
Most weight loss supplements are not effective
07 Mar 2012
Embryonic development protein active in cancer growth
By By Scott LaFee | 06 Mar 2012
Pacemaker powered by heartbeats developed
03 Mar 2012
Engineering researchers at the University of Michigan have designed a device that is powered by heartbeats through the chest and converted to electricity to run a pacemaker or an implanted defibrillator
Nose spray for panic attacks?
03 Mar 2012
Cocoa may enhance skeletal muscle function
03 Mar 2012
Treating brain cancer with novel viral vector
02 Mar 2012
Molecular duo dictate weight and energy levels
01 Mar 2012
New discoveries on depression
29 Feb 2012
DNA nanorobot-targeted therapeutic responses
28 Feb 2012
Researchers have developed a robotic device made from DNA that could potentially seek out specific cancer cells and cause them to self-destruct
One in 10 children face elevated risk of abuse, future PTSD, due to gender nonconformity
28 Feb 2012
"Popeye" proteins help the heart adapt to stress
27 Feb 2012
Engineers create wireless, self-propelled medical device
By By Andrew Myers | 25 Feb 2012
For 50 years, scientists searched for the secret to making tiny implantable devices that could travel through the bloodstream. Engineers at Stanford have demonstrated just such a device. Powered without wires or batteries, it can propel itself though the bloodstream and is small enough to fit through blood vessels.
Featured articles
Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Jan 2024
In March 2013 Chinese scientists pulled off a remarkable feat. They created the world’s lightest aerogel. Tipping the scales at a mere 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimeter – that’s a sixth of the weight of air!
COP28 explained: A closer look at COP28's climate change solutions
By Aniket Gupta | 27 Dec 2023
The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28, took place from 30th November 2023, to 13th December 2023, at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
What is a Ponzi scheme?
By Aniket Gupta | 06 Dec 2023
Ponzi schemes have long captivated the public imagination, drawing unsuspecting investors into a web of illusion and deception.
The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation