A mobile app launched by Indian-American banker Jay Sidhu and his daughter Luvleen can revolutionise the global banking industry, a media report said.


Indian-origin duo's app to revolutionise banking industry


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A team of Finnish researchers has developed a new prototype of "smart" radio for smartphones that will provide customised songs to each listener's preferences.


'Smart' radio to play customised songs for you


Each extra hour per day spent watching TV, using the internet or playing computer games during Year 10 is associated with poorer grades at secondary education examination at age 16, finds a study from University of Cambridge.


Extra screen time associated with poorer grades


Children born during times of famine are at an increased risk of developing diabetes later in adulthood, says a new study.


Prenatal exposure to famine ups diabetes risk


Girls with autism display less repetitive and restricted behaviour than boys -- and this could be the reason behind their being underdiagnosed or making it harder for them to get the most appropriate treatment, according to a new study.


Why autism is not often diagnosed in girls


Repeated exposure to anesthesia in early life may alter emotional behaviour that may persist for years, a study has found.


Anesthesia may alter emotional behaviour in kids


Gaydar - the so called ability to infer whether people are gay or straight based on their appearance - is just a myth that promotes harmful form of stereotyping, says a new study.


'Gaydar' is not real, promotes stereotyping: Study


Eight to nine hours of good quality sleep every night, combined with other healthy lifestyle behaviours, can reduce the negative consequences of stress in kids, suggests new research.


Good sleep can lower effects of stress in kids


Giving cancer patients aspirin at the same time as immunotherapy could boost the effectiveness of the treatment, says a new study.


Aspirin could boost cancer immunotherapy


At a time when a debate is raging about smartphone addiction among the millennials (those born after 1980), here comes a way to help you identify if you are suffering from a modern-day phobia: fear of being without your mobile phone.


Suffering from 'missing smartphone anxiety'?


Many doctors working in India's private hospitals are under pressure to carry out unnecessary tests and procedures to meet revenue targets, says a report published in the journal The BMJ.


Many Indian doctors under pressure to meet revenue targets: Report


Researchers from Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, Spain, have found a unique genetic switch that appears to guide stem cells so that they develop into specialised heart muscle.


Genetic switch behind heart muscle's growth discovered


Offering a promising strategy to treat people with Type-2 diabetes, researchers have found that shutting down a liver protein could reduce glucose production in the liver and lower blood sugar levels.


New strategy to treat diabetes found promising


An international team of scientists has for the first time mapped all the genes that are activated in the first few days of a fertilised human egg.


Scientists map all genes behind embryo development


A virtual centre spread across five Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) has been set up to develop advanced technologies in the area of biofuels, it was announced on Thursday.


Virtual centre on bioenergy set up across five IITs


Viable advanced technologies must be developed to counter negative effects of declining landholdings, increasing number of marginal farmers and land degradation, Principal Scientific Advisor to the government, R. Chidambaram said here Thursday.


'Viable advance technologies needed to counter land degradation'


A Russian spacecraft on Thursday avoided collision with a Japanese rocket fragment during its flight to the International Space Station (ISS).


Russian spacecraft avoids collision with Japanese rocket fragment


Skeletons discovered in a centuries-old mass grave in Durham, England, are the remains of Scottish soldiers taken prisoner after the 1650 A. D. Battle of Dunbar, new research has revealed.


Durham skeletons are of 17th century Scottish soldiers


A study led by an Indian-origin scientist in Australia has found that a widely available drug used to treat gout can help heart attack survivors live longer, according to a media report.


Gout drugs may help heart attack survivors live longer


If you thought coercing your teenage child or sibling into exercising would do the trick, you are off the mark as it won't make the youngsters any more active, says a new study.


Forcing teenagers into exercise no good


Reducing the intake of sugary drinks by one serving a week for an year can increase "good" cholesterol levels in children, a new study has found.

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