Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech is developing world's first vaccine for Zika virus, which has been declared as public health emergency by the World Health Organisation.


Indian firm developing vaccine for Zika virus


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Using nanoparticles of the main ingredient in common antacid tablets can help prevent a cancerous tumour from growing, says a study led by an Indian-origin researcher.


Novel nanoparticles may help stop tumour growth


Due to dietary factors, humans are taller now -- but taller people are more prone to the risk of cancer, warns a recent study.


Height affects risk of heart disease, diabetes, cancer


An Indian-origin researcher is developing a low-cost, portable device to detect tainted medicines and food supplements that otherwise can make their way to consumers.


Portable device to detect tainted medicines


Our early ancestors managed to evolve and journey across the earth by exchanging and improving their technology, researchers say after analysing Blombos Cave in South Africa.


How early humans evolved by sharing technology, culture


Women may be friendlier than men, but they are more likely to get annoyed at people's irritating behaviour with whom they interact.


Women more sensitive to irksome behaviour than men: Study


A  wearable device could be an effective tool for preventing bites from the Aedes aegypti mosquito -- the primary vector of Zika, chikungunya, dengue, and yellow fever, say researchers.


Wearable device may offer protection against Zika mosquitoes


Revealing the impact that the burning of fossil fuels have had on the world's oceans in just 10 years, a new study has found that the North Atlantic absorbed 50 percent more man-made carbon dioxide (CO2) over the last decade, compared to the previous decade.


CO2 in North Atlantic Ocean doubled over last decade


Around 40 percent of Australian grandparents believe they should be reimbursed for looking after their grandchildren, SAID a new survey.


Aussie grandparents want payment to care for grandchildren


The US space agency NASA on Tuesday said its new rocket for deep space mission, the Space Launch System (SLS), will carry 13 small satellites along with an uncrewed Orion spacecraft during its first flight in 2018.


NASA's deep space rocket to launch small satellites


British researchers have identified a piece of non-coding Ribonucleic acid (RNA) that stops cells turning cancerous, reveals a study.


'Junk' DNA helps in preventing breast cancer: Study


There is no difference in the time it takes people from different countries to read and process different languages, new research has found.


All languages equally efficient at conveying meaning


The combination of erosion and melting ice caps led to a massive increase in volcanic activity at the end of the last ice age, says a new study.


Glacial erosion increased volcanic eruptions at ice age-end


What has Super Bowl to do with flu spread? A lot, say researchers, adding that having a team in the Super Bowl resulted in an average 18 percent increase in flu deaths among those over 65 years old -- a population more vulnerable to serious complications from influenza.


How Super Bowl celebrations can spread flu


Senior citizens are likely to accept robots as dish washers and entertainment providers but are wary of giving up too much control to the machines, say researchers.


Why your grandfather hates self-reliant robots at home


Small ponds play a disproportionately large role in global greenhouse gas emissions from inland waters, says a study.


Small ponds emit large amount of greenhouse gases


Chinese authorities have named an asteroid after scientist Tu Youyou who won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for her work with artemisinin, which is now widely used to fight malaria.


China names asteroid after Nobel laureate


Researchers at the Harvard University including an Indian-origin scientist have replicated a folding human brain in 3D, revealing for the first time a simple mechanical framework for how it folds.


Scientists replicate folding human brain in 3D in lab


A new study has shed light on how the San people of Namibia collect beetle poison, prepare it and apply it to boost the lethality of their arrows.


How Namibia's San people prepare poison-tipped arrows


An international team of scientists has collected an unprecedented sequence of rock samples from the shallow mantle of the ocean crust that bear signs of life, unique carbon cycling and ocean crust movement.


Global expedition discovers mantle rocks with signs of life


The new evidence may finally help put the chill on skeptics' belief that long-term global warming occurs in an unpredictable manner, independently of external drivers such as human impacts.

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