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If the ongoing trial of tilted trains or light-weight trains of Spanish company Talgo is successful, it would be introduced on the stretch between Bangalore and Mysore, brining down the travel time from 3 hours to half of it at 90 minutes, said Railways minister. Union Minister for Railways Suresh Prabhu on Saturday said the train clocked 180 kmph in ...

Nicotine capsules, nicotine patches are passe now as researchers have discovered a more effective nicotine vaccine that could help smokers and even drug addicts quit. With an effective nicotine vaccine, people may be less motivated to relapse because the brain’s reward system could no longer react to nicotine. The scientists from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) in the US first ...

HIV virus that causes AIDS was different from other viruses known since the very immune cells that these vaccines aim to increase may have already been affected by the virus, effectively making the entire process futile, says a new study. This reason has been cited for the unique challenge that scientists faced in developing an HIV vaccine fore more than ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi currently on 3-day nation tour for 10 days, has congratulated scientists on the successful test fire of Prithvi-II missile abck home. “I congratulate the hard work of our scientists that has been instrumental in the successful test fire of nuclear-capable Prithvi-II missile”, the prime minister said in a message. India successfully test-fired its nuclear-capable surface-to-surface Prithvi-II ...