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Harvard researchers claimed last month that they had managed to create metallic hydrogen that has the capability to superconduct electricity at room temperature without resistance in a process that used massive amounts of pressure and a diamond vice. Stored at minus 193 degree celsius, the sample mysteriously disappeared, leaving researchers wonder whether it just evaporated. But they are determined to ...

Shifting its business focus from microfinance to core banking, Bangalore-based Ujjivan Financial Services opened on Monday, Feb. 6, 2017, five branches in Bangalore with Bangladeshi Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus as the chief guest. One significant feature that Ujjivan Bank will offer is to let its customers unlimited access to ATM transactions on its network and six free transactions on other ...

Almost two years after Pakistan, India too joined CERN as an associate member of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), which houses the world’s largest nuclear and particle physics laboratory in the world and known for operating the Large Hadron Collider, that has claimed to have found the elusive Higgs Boson in 2012 and won the Nobel the next ...

Having sex by older men once a week or more will put them at higher risk for heart attacks and other cardiovascular problems but not for older women, who may live a healthy life with less hypertension due to the same sex life, said a startling new study reversing the age-old belief just opposite to that. The first large-scale study ...

It is ironic but the fully-built Bangalore Metro stations in North-South Corridor by Namma Metro are delayed beyond the schedule as usual. The residents and travellers in these roads have patiently took it on their stride to circumvent the millions of road-blocks and delays for the last five years but still they have to wait for few more months before ...

Fidgeting or moving legs while in a sitting posture is helpful to heart in a long way, found researchers from the University of Missouri (USA). “Whether it’s binge watching our favourite TV show or working at a computer… a small amount of leg fidgeting could prevent a decline in leg vascular function caused by prolonged sitting,” said lead author Jaume ...

A molecule in pomegranates when eaten gets transformed by microbes in the gut enabling muscle cells to protect themselves against one of the major causes of ageing, found researchers, perhaps giving a shot in arm for more consumption of the fruit. The powerhouse in our cells called mitochondria finds it difficult as we age and degrade affecting the health of ...

Any food taken as whole grain is helpful in lowering the risk of death from heart attacks, cancer and other age or stress-related ailments in life, said a new study published in the journal Circulation. The study estimated that every additional serving of whole grains have cut cardiovascular disease-related death risk by 9 percent and cancer death risk by five ...

Rosemary essential oil and its aroma could help improve memory power of the brain in elderly people, according to a new study by Lauren Bussey of Northumbria University. This finding reiterates similar study by Japanese reerchers last year on rosemary’s effective therapeutic powers for an aging brain. In the new study, prospective memory, involving the ability to remember events and ...

Bengaluru development minister KJ George has promised that the entire 42-km Namma Metro network will be opened by November 1, 2016 marking the Rajyotsava Day of Karnataka, with the key Malleswaram—Majestic underground stretch to be ready in 3 months from now. Even if it is delayed by another month as is the case with Namma Metro projects, the stretch should ...