There could soon be cheaper and more lightweight tools, such as goggles or hand-held devices, to identify tumours in real time in operating rooms as researchers have developed a dual-mode imaging technology, an improvement over single mode imaging.


Soon goggle to help surgeons locate tumours in real time


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Flavoured cigarettes appeal the youth and teenagers, who use menthol cigarettes, more per day than their peers who smoke non-menthols, says a study.


Menthol cigarettes lure teenagers to smoke more: Study


Do music and room colour have an effect on wine taste? Yes, very much, says a new study.


Room colour, background music enhance wine taste


Instead of just thumping your desks or pumping your fists even as you watch a World Cup football match on television, you should also get into some real action if reducing blood pressure is one of your concerns.


Playing football can lower blood pressure in women: Study


The more light a solar panel's active elements absorb, the more power it produces. So, researchers have now replaced a two-step process for producing black silicon - highly efficient materials that reflect almost no light - with one.


Efficient solar cells are a step closer


A new mobile app can measure respiratory rate in children roughly six times faster than the standard stop watch method.


App to measure breathing rate inside 10 seconds


Fish use their watery voices to relay distress, find prey, defend their nests, and attract mates but the sounds they make also help marine crabs to hide from predators. Researchers have found that marine crabs too have the capability to hear.


How fishy sounds save many a mud crab


Are animals limited, as proposed by Darwin, in their options to evolve showiness? No, says a new study done on one of the world's largest and most colourful bird families.


Did birds trade off colours for song?


Are you a 'hater' or a 'liker?' It may surprise you but a new study finds that "haters", or people who generally like fewer things, are likely to be better workers.


'Haters' likely to be better workers!


Sun lovers beware! Chronic exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation can release feel-good hormones called endorphins that may lead to physical dependence, tolerance and addiction-like behaviour.


Hormones may cause UV addiction


For the bald, this is good news. A man with almost no hair on his body has grown a full head of it, including eyebrows, eyelashes as well as facial, armpit and other hair, with a drug meant to treat arthritis.


Arthritis drug spurs hair growth in hairless men: Study


Researchers have now discovered that four rare gene mutations can not only lower the levels of triglycerides, a type of body fat in the blood, but also significantly reduce risk of coronary heart disease.


Rare mutations to lower heart attack risk identified


Do you keep thinking whether your partner loves you or not? You could be suffering from relationship obsessive-compulsive disorder (ROCD) that is detrimental to your sex life.


'Loves me, loves me not' riddle may ruin your sex life


Supersonic passenger travel may soon make a comeback thanks to NASA's efforts to define a new standard for low sonic booms.


Supersonic air travel to make a comeback?


Can television content affect a person's brain development and functioning? Yes, warns a new study.


TV violence linked to poor reasoning


Researchers have developed a new brain-mapping device that can map brain activity when a person tries to recall information from a memorisation task.


Brain-mapping device to 'see' where memory fails


Job loss is associated with depressive symptoms in both the United States and Europe, but the effects of job loss are much stronger in American workers, a new study has found.


Americans more prone to depression due to job loss: Study


Young women are especially vulnerable to depression and moderate and severe depression may double their risk of death from heart diseases, a new study says.


Depression ups death risk in younger women: Study


Nanomaterials used in food packaging, personal care products and even as food additives may not only interfere with your digestion, but also lead to release of potentially harmful substances in the environment, a study reveals.


'Nanoparticles in packaged food harmful for humans, climate'


Creations of a couple of Indian Americans were featured at the first-ever White House Maker Faire to "celebrate a nation of makers and help empower America's students and entrepreneurs to invent the future".


White House Maker Faire features Indian-Americans' creations


Eminent Indian plant scientist, Dr. Sanjaya Rajaram, has been named winner of the 2014 World Food Prize in recognition of his outstanding work in the improvement of wheat crop.

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