The more advanced an hearing aid is today, the worse experience it would offer to music lovers who use such aids, says a study.


Advanced hearing aids distort music more


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If you are experiencing hair fall problems, your teeth may require extra care as researchers have found that hair disorder could increase risk of dental decay.


Hair disorder could signal dental decay


Websites going bust under excessive loads might soon be a thing of the past, thanks to an innovative technology.


Start-up innovates affordable fix for website crashes


A common therapy to tackle obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) does not become a hindrance between the sheets, says a study, allaying fears of OSA patients who believe the therapy interferes with sex.


Snoring masks don't kill sex life: Study


Do you use a flashlight app on your smartphone? Security experts warn that free flashlight apps are secretly recording sensitive information from your phone.


Flashlight apps stealing your data?


As compared to men who have had only one partner during their lifetime, having sex with more than 20 women is associated with a 28 percent lower risk of being diagnosed with prostate cancer, research shows.


Sleeping with more women reduces prostate cancer risk: Study


Policies targetting population reduction will not immediately solve issues of global sustainability simply because the world population is now so huge that there is no quick fix to the "virtually locked-in" population growth, a reserach has said.


Population reduction no answer to environmental problems


Vatican City, Oct 28 (IANS/EFE) Pope Francis Monday said the "Big Bang" theory as a model for the origin of the Universe "does not rule out the intervention of a divine Creator, but rather demands it" and that "the origin of the world is not a product of chaos, but is derived directly from the supreme power that created love."


Pope says Big Bang theory does not contradict Christianity


Committing mistakes while learning can benefit the memory and lead one to come up with the correct answer, but only if the guess is a near miss, a research revealed.


Errors sharpen memory while learning


If a mother responds more sensitively to her baby during playtime, the child is less likely to display callous, unemotional behaviour as a toddler, new research has discovered.


Pay attention to your baby for emotional well being


Heart surgery patients receiving newly donated blood have significantly fewer post-operative complications than those who received blood donated more than two weeks before their surgery, found a research.


'Newly' donated blood better for heart surgery


A new portable device can correctly measure a patient's blood for the effects of methotrexate, a commonly used but potentially toxic cancer drug, in less than a minute.


A tool to monitor the adverse effects of cancer drug


Age-related memory decline can be reversed with a little alteration in your diet, specifically the inclusion of cocoa flavanols, showed a research.


Cocoa may reverse memory decline


People facing mental health challenges are twice as likely to contract heart diseases, found a research.


Mental illness doubles cardiac, stroke risks


Digoxin, a medication used in the treatment of heart failure, may be adapted for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive, paralysing disease, suggested a research.


Heart drug may treat paralysing disease


Solving a decades-old mystery, researchers, including an Indian-origin scientist, have discovered how a powerful antibiotic agent is made in nature.


Microbes to help develop antibiotics


Teenagers whose parents exert more psychological control over them have more problems establishing friendships and romantic relationships later, found a study.


Manipulative parents leave kids in distress later


If you think that the lives of adolescents at home and at school are quite separate, think again as a study has discovered that conflicts at home spill over to school and vice versa.


Teenagers' family, school conflicts rub each other


Women who developed gestational diabetes and were overweight before pregnancy were at a higher risk of begetting daughters who became obese later in childhood, said a research.


'Diabetic mother may beget obese daughters'


When collaborating with larger companies, startups with a small number of carefully chosen alliances would reap the most benefits, a research showed.


'Startups should seek quality not quantity in partnerships'


A hormone seen as a popular target to develop weight-loss drugs works by directly targeting the brain and triggering previously unknown activity in the nervous system, researchers have found.

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