Older adults who develop irregular heartbeat are likely to have more age-related declines in walking speed, strength, balance and other aspects of physical performance, new research has found.


Irregular heart rhythm leads to poor physical performance


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Money can buy happiness, if those purchases fit your personality, says a study, adding it may be strongly linked to greater life satisfaction than your total income and total spending.


Money can buy happiness if you spend it right


Consuming pears everyday may improve blood pressure and vascular function in middleaged people with metabolic syndrome (Mets), a study has found.


Eat pears regularly to improve BP, heart functions


The child in the womb of an obese mother, who develops gestational diabetes, is five times more likely to grow larger in size by the sixth month of pregnancy, finds a study, adding that the child is more prone to developing obesity and diabetes later in life.


Obesity, diabetes in pregnancy hastens early foetus growth


An international team of geoscientists has found that Greenland sits over an area of abnormally hot mantle material that drives a widespread melting beneath the ice sheet and rapid ice flow over a distance of several hundred kms.


Earth's internal heat driving Greenland's ice melt


Scientists have developed a new technology that enables them to read and interpret the human genome, opening the door to identifying new drug targets to treat many genetic diseases.


New technology enables interpretation of human genome


Scientists have developed a structure-based vaccine design that can jumpstart an effective immune response to HIV by rapidly offsetting antibodies against the virus, which so far have been unsuccessful.


Researchers identify potent antibodies against HIV


In a first, ISRO's National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) will monitor and map the water bodies in tribal belts in the country to help tackle irrigation crisis faced by tribal farmers, a union minister said on Thursday.


ISRO to monitor water bodies in tribal areas: Minister


In a major move to combat rising incidence of diabetes in the country, the government on Wednesday inked an agreement with a Hyderabad-based firm to develop medicine to control diabetes and a software to keep tab on diabetics and those vulnerable to the lifestyle disease.


Government inks deal to develop drugs, software to combat diabetes


The death of a spouse is linked to increased risk of developing an irregular heartbeat up to a year after the bereavement, says a study adding that the risk is prevalent among those below 60.


Death of spouse ups irregular heartbeat risk


The salt levels of oceans on distant Earth-like planets could have a major effect on their climates and may provide more habitable conditions for alien life, says a study involving an Indian-origin scientist.


Study reveals ocean circulation on distant Earth-like planets


A new study by an international team of scientists has revealed conditions under which a body produces more superoxide -- a dangerous form of oxygen with the capability to destruct DNA.


Study shows how oxygen can kill DNA


President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday said the sustenance of mankind depends only on environmentally sustainable mining practices.


President calls for environmentally sustainable mining practices


Electrical stimulation of a deep, middle brain structure blocks pain signals at the spinal cord level without drug intervention, finds a new study.


Deep brain's electrical stimulation alleviates chronic pain: Study


Scientists have proposed a new concept that could make it possible to generate electricity from coal with much greater efficiency -- possibly reaching as much as twice the fuel-to-electricity efficiency of today's conventional coal plants.


New concept may halve coal-plant emissions


Choir singing can be useful in fighting against deadly diseases, reveals a study adding that the group activity can help put people in the best possible position to receive treatment, maintain remission and support cancer patients


Choir singing boosts immunity to fight cancer


The North Atlantic Ocean played a key role in the last climate transition, says a study providing valuable insights into why large continental ice-sheets first grew in North America and Scandinavia some 2.7 million years ago.


North Atlantic played key role in last climate transition


Some landslides travel much greater distances than scientists would normally expect. Now a team of researchers has come out with an explanation for this phenomenon using a sophisticated computer model.


Some landslides run greater distances than expected


El Nino - the climate cycle that develops along the tropical west coast of South America every three to seven years - can have huge impact on the marine food chain with rippling effect on fisheries and the livelihoods of fishermen, says a new NASA study.


El Nino can have huge impact on marine food chain: Study


A daily dose of vitamin D3 is likely to improve the functioning of the heart in people with chronic failure of the organ, a new study has found.


Vitamin D3 may improve heart functioning


Don't forget to use sunscreen to avoid getting a tan -- for the darkening of the skin to protect itself against harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation blocks vitamin D synthesis and limits the skin's ability to produce more of the vital vitamin, finds a new study.

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