Even having as few as one or two family meals a week during adolescence may protect your kids from being obese when they turn into adults, says a study.


Family meals protect kids from obesity


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Independent of other known risk factors, measuring the sense of family or peer invalidation - or lack of acceptance - that teenagers harbour can help predict whether they will try to harm themselves or attempt suicide, says a study.


Teenagers' sense of invalidation linked to suicide risk


If you are suffering from chronic pain, there are chances that you would pay more attention to words like ache, agony, distress and pain than to non-pain related words, says a study.


Word pain stands more for those experiencing it


Although energy drinks may enhance athlete's performance, they also cause insomnia and nervousness, a study said.


Energy drinks may ruin your sleep


Chinese archaeologists have discovered over 2,000 relics dating back to the Paleolithic period, the media reported Sunday.


Paleolithic relics unearthed in China


You can now brush your teeth and take a bath with a clear conscience as researchers have found that the most common soaps, shampoos and detergents - also known as surfactants - pose a minimal risk to the environment.


Common surfactants not harmful to environment: Study


The exact cause of juvenile diabetes had eluded scientists for long and researchers have now found that a mother's exposure to viruses during pregnancy may cause type one diabetes and other auto-immune diseases in children.


Mother's viral infection may trigger diabetes in kids


Men, who consume alcohol have a greater risk of contracting human papillomavirus (HPV) infection, a study said.


Alcohol increases risk of HPV infection in men


Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder appear to be linked with dendritic spine loss in the brain, suggesting the two disorders may share common pathophysiological elements.


Spine loss common in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder


In a finding that may lead to improved treatments for hypertension and heart failure, scientists have uncovered a new pathway through which the brain uses a little-known steroid to control blood pressure.


Pathway between brain and blood pressure identified


Chronic consumption of melatonine, a hormone found in animals, plants, and microbes, helps combat obesity and type-two diabetes, says a study.


Melatonine intake may help combat obesity, diabetes


Tiny creatures like earthworms and beetles play a vital role in maintaining grasslands and balancing the ecosystem, a study says.


Tiny creatures balance ecosystem


Indian-born scientist Arogyaswami Joseph Paulraj and mathematics scholar Himanshu Asnani at Stanford University in the Silicon Valley have been awarded prizes by Marconi Society in Washington.


US awards for Indian-born Stanford scientist, scholar


A study has questioned the accepted wisdom that aggressive treatment with high-drug dosages over long duration is the best way to stem the emergence and spread of resistant pathogens.


Aggressive treatment may not kill resistant pathogens


Even if you are young and drink alcohol only during the weekends, that could be enough to harm your reproductive health as researchers have found that drinking just five units of alcohol a week could affect sperm quality of young men.


Even moderate drinking could affect sperm quality


What brand of car you drive may influence the car choices of your kids too, says a study.


Parents could drive car choices of kids


Researchers have found that ibuprofen, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory painkiller, could reduce lung inflammation associated with ageing.


Common painkiller may treat ageing lungs


If you have had a bad day, chances are you might end up spending time on social networking sites like Facebook with people who are worse off, says a study.


How Facebook boosts self esteem


Human activities leading to reduction and redistribution of food, rather than larger predators, could be the major cause for the alarming decline in the number of cheetahs, says an analysis of how cheetahs burn energy.


Humans to blame for declining numbers of cheetahs


The HIV pandemic began its global spread from Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), says a study.


Spread of AIDS traced to Kinshasa in the 1920s


People often say that what you are looking for is usually right in front of your face. Researchers from the George Washington University in the US faced the same predicament when they discovered an ant species, Cephalotes specularis, hiding in plain sight.

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