The year 2020 proved difficult for many despite enthusiasm to maximize efforts. But the year 2021 will be far more bright than anticipated not only because of stars but also as people tend to work hard after facing hardships throughout the past one year. What changes will the new year 2021 bring to your life? Based on your sun sign ...
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Heard of Mental Time Travel? Yes, Only Humans Can Do!
There is one more reason to make merry this Christmas season, that is only we, humans, can recall personal experiences and also travel into the future with the power of our mind. The model developed by three scientists Prof. Markus Werning, Prof. Sen Cheng from the German Ruhr University Bochum and Prof. Thomas Suddendorf (University of Queensland) presents forcibly that ...
Read More »Coffee or Tea? Coffee too is Good for Your Heart!
A new study has found that there is no relation between drinking coffee and an increased risk of atrial fibrillation, according to research published in the open access journal BMC Medicine. The research includes a meta-analysis of four other studies, making it the largest study its kind, involving nearly 250,000 individuals over the course of 12 years to investigate a ...
Read More »Climate change could leave Pacific Northwest amphibians off guard: Study
IMAGE: TO DEVELOP THE MODEL, THE TEAM COLLECTED DATA FOR 121 WETLAND SITES IN OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK, MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK AND NORTH CASCADES NATIONAL PARK. (CREDIT: MAUREEN RYAN/UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON) The wildfires raging in Washington’s forests resulting in dry Pacific Northwest lowlands may affect the region’s amphibians like frogs high and dry hopping elsewhere, said a new study. The study forecasts changes ...
Read More »Newspaper can predict your future weight
What you’re reading now secretly tells you whether your country will be skinnier or fatter in three years. After analyzing 50 years of all the food words mentioned in major newspapers like the New York Times and London Times, a new Cornell study shows that the food words trending today in 2015 will predict a country’s obesity level in three ...
Read More »Has China Replaced US and Become a Super Power Already?
Withe early signs of another recession creeping in, Pew Research Center has put out its findings that show China in its steward position taking over from the US to rein in the woes of a possible recurrence of the 1930s global recession, the worst in history. After recovery after the Great Recession of the 1930s, the U.S. has bolstered its leadership ...
Read More »Coffee or tea? Which One is Better Healthwise?
A recent study has shown that people consuming three to five cups of coffee a day have the lowest risk of clogged arteries and heart attacks. The latest finding was by the Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Seoul in South Korea, which examined the link between coffee consumption and the presence of coronary artery calcium (CAC) which is an early indicator of coronary ...
Read More »India’s Astrosat to Join NASA’s Hubble, Russian Spektr R, Japan’s Suzaku to Study Astronomy
India is gearing up to launch its own ASTROSAT, the first dedicated space observatory similar to NASA’s Hubble to study deep space in October 2015. The observatory to be placed in equatorial range for five years will orbit around Earth at 650-km speed, said the Indian Space Research Organisation on Tuesday. Built by Bangalore-based ISRO Satellite Centre (ISAC), India hopes ...
Read More »In bringing back 66A, warnings from Turkey, Russia loom large
By Aparna Kalra Jadavpur University professor Ambikesh Mahapatra is still anxious a month after the Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional a controversial law that led to his arrest for e-mailing a cartoon mocking West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. On April 27, his lawyer will rise in a court in Kolkata and ask that a chargesheet filed against the ...
Read More »Human chin came from evolution, not because of chewing, says study
Unlike the nearest species to homo sapiens such as chimpanzees or erstwhile Neanderthals, only humans or homo homo-sapiens have chins and it was long believed that this was by virtue of our constant chewing or eating ability. But a new study shows that it was not due to mechanical forces but resulted from an evolutionary adaptation involving face size and shape. ...
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