"What would you want to be when you grow up," he asked. "Sir, I just hate maths and science", I said. Telling this to India's missile man and a science genius elicited a raised eyebrow, a heartwarming smile and words of encouragement from A.P.J. Abdul Kalam: "Do good in whatever you choose to do".


Walks to remember: Memories of Kalam (First Person Account)


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A 20-year study has found that people with diabetes are seven times more likely to develop tuberculosis (TB) than the general population.


Beware! Diabetes increases risk of contracting TB


Google will no longer be promoting its ambitious Google+ as competition to Facebook and Twitter, media reports said.


Google no longer to promote Google+ as Facebook rival


There is a strong association between insulin resistance and decline of memory function and this increases the risk for Alzheimer's disease, says a new study.


Insulin resistance raises risk for Alzheimer's disease


When the human brain takes on intellectually challenging tasks, groups of neurons tune in to one another for a fraction of a second and harmonise, then go back to improvising, says a new study.


New insights into treating brain rhythm disorders


Researchers have identified how specific cardiovascular risk factors, such as alcohol consumption, smoking, obesity and diabetes, may damage the brain, thereby increasing the risk of Alzheimer's disease and dementia.


What is bad for your heart can also shrink brain


Weight loss through lifestyle modification and bariatric surgery can significantly reduce features of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), a disease characterised by fat in the liver, studies said.


Lose weight for healthy liver: Study


If you are too lazy to hit the gym but want to enjoy all the benefits of exercise, new research may brighten your prospects.


Now, a compound that mimics the effects of exercise!


Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has spoken to union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on bringing the body of former president A.P.J Abdul Kalam to this state capital for a few hours, for the people to pay their respects, as he stayed here for nearly two decades.


Chandy wants Kalam's body to be brought to Kerala


A new therapy that cuts off the way some cancer cells communicate significantly slows the rapid spread of a common and deadly brain tumour, new research has found.


New therapy slows down brain tumour


Application of liquid lidocaine, a common local anaesthetic, may significantly improve sexual function of breast cancer survivors who experience pain during sexual intercourse, new research has found.


Local anaesthetic may improve sex lives of breast cancer survivors


Using a popular genome-editing system, scientists have for the first time devised a new strategy to precisely modify human T-cells, also called immune cells.


Scientists successfully modify human immune cells in lab


An international team of researchers has found a marker in the blood that can identify women who might be at particular risk for depression after their child's birth.


New blood marker linked to postpartum depression risk


A cell protein paves the way for the malaria parasite to enter the liver, where it multiplies ten-thousand-fold and is released into the bloodstream, scientists have discovered.


Decoded: How Malaria parasite enters liver


Indian scientists on Monday mourned the death of former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam as a big loss to both the scientific community and the country at large.


Big loss to India and Indian science, say scientists


An enthusiast till the last for sharing ideas with students and youth, it was not surprising that former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam was delivering a lecture at the IIM-Shillong when he collapsed and died in a hospital shortly afterwards.


A.P.J. Abdul Kalam: India's missile man, an indomitable spirit (Obituary)


There is not going to be a replacement for such a great person as former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, as he was a "karmayogi", a former colleague at ISRO said on Monday.


Kalam was 'Karmayogi', says former ISRO colleague


The sudden demise of former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam was a tremendous loss to the country, Indian space agency chief A.S. Krishna Kumar said on Monday.


Kalam's death tremendous loss to India: ISRO chief


NASA is studying concepts for robots that might stay aloft for long periods in atmospheres of planets like Jupiter without wings or hot-air balloons.


Windbots to explore skies of Jupiter


Using prisms and an advanced brain scanner, the point in the human brain at which the vision of the two eyes becomes one image has been found by researchers.


Point where brain unites eyes' double vision found


Researchers are set to send thousands of microscopic worms on a mission to the International Space Station (ISS) in an experiment aimed at increasing our understanding of what makes the body build and lose muscle.

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