There are nearly 31,000 health and fitness apps in the market and most of them use games to increase physical activity. Are they a real substitute for hitting the gym or walking in the park?


Fitness app games no substitute for actual exercise


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Polyphenols found in green tea are strong antioxidants and can protect your brain in case of a spinal cord injury.


Green tea can protect spinal cord neurons


Mobile phones are certainly causing some changes in the human body's metabolism unlike claims made by cellular operators, medical experts have said.


Mobile phones cause changes in metabolism


A new study involving 10,000 mothers has shown that women who breastfed their babies were at significantly lower risk of postnatal depression than those who did not.


Breastfeeding linked to lower risk of postnatal depression


The US Copyright Office has confirmed that a monkey - or any other animal - that takes a selfie does not own the copyright of the photo.


Monkey doesn't own his selfie: US regulator


A lake that has not seen sunlight or felt a breath of wind for millions of years beneath the Antarctic ice is brimming with life and active ecosystem, reveal findings of a massive US expedition.


Life brimming with active ecosystem beneath Antarctic ice


If you think that the spiders you see in your garden are getting bigger, you are probably right.


City spiders getting bigger, multiplying faster


Both major forms of diabetes -- type-1 and type-2 -- result from the same mechanism, suggests a 20-year-long research.


Same mechanism behind both forms of diabetes


Lizard tails have fascinated humans from ancient times, falling off and growing back just like new. Now, scientists have solved the mystery of how lizards can regenerate their tails.


Lizard tails may help humans get new limbs


Australian researchers have discovered that the immune system is defective in people suffering from irritable bowel syndrome and this renders pain treatment ineffective in such people.


Pain pills less effective in irritable bowel syndrome


Parents always suspect that their college going kids prefer weekends to weekdays. Now there is proof that college graduates are more active on weekends compared to non-college goers.


Is your college going kid more active on weekends?


In a first, chemical engineers led by an Indian-origin researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have devised a new implantable tissue scaffold coated with bone growth factors that are released slowly over a few weeks.


Novel tissue scaffolds help body grow new bone


If you want your kids to grow up healthy, make it a point not to miss dinner time with them.


Don't miss meals with kids


Brasilia, Aug 20 (IANS/EFE) Scientists from four Brazilian institutions have announced the discovery of a new species of non-venomous snake that inhabits the savannas in the central part of the country.


New species of non-venomous snake discovered in Brazil


While the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 is typically blamed on human, design and construction errors, a study points to two other unfavourable factors outside human control.


Exceptional iceberg to blame for Titanic disaster? 


Flexible work arrangements are often sought to maintain work-life balance. If we believe a study, these arrangements may exacerbate discrimination based on parental status and gender.


Men viewed favourably when seeking work-life balance


More US women are seeking hormonal treatments for menopausal symptoms from anti-ageing clinicians, feeling that conventional doctors do not take their suffering seriously, according to a new study.


'Women seeking anti-ageing therapy to treat menopausal symptoms'


High-intensity exercise can help stable heart transplant patients reach higher levels of exercise capacity and gain better control of their blood pressure than moderate intensity exercise, a study indicates.


High-intensity exercise 'safe' in heart transplant patients


In an alarming revelation, NASA has confirmed that the snow on sea ice in the Arctic has thinned significantly in the last 50 years - by about a third in the western hemisphere and by half near Alaska.


Snow cover on Arctic sea ice has thinned significantly: NASA


researchers have devised a way to analyse genome sequences in what could help physicians map the risk of various afflictions, including cancer and autism.


New tool to detect gene mutations


Some cancer cells transform themselves from "economy model to a fast sports car" and breakaway from cells traffic jam to migrate to distant locations, aggravating the disease in the process, says a study.

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