Supplemental light-emitting diode (LED) lighting treatment can help greenhouse tomato growers reduce energy cost without affecting fruit quality attributes, new research suggests.


LED lighting cuts costs for greenhouse tomato growers


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A new mathematical model developed by three American scientists offers a simplified approach to studying the spread of dengue fever in urban areas by breaking down the epidemic dynamics across a city and its varying neighbourhoods and populations.


Mathematical model predicts dengue epidemic in urban areas


Training doctors can help reduce the risk of many sexually transmitted infections, including HIV, according to a new study.


Training doctors linked to reduced sexually transmitted infections


New research has revealed how malaria parasites cause an inflammatory reaction that sabotages our body's ability to protect itself against the disease.


How 'self-sabotage' prevents immune response against malaria


Can the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria be squarely blamed on the misuse and overuse of antibiotics? No, there is more to the problem than the misuse of common medications, says a University of Georgia researcher.


Environmental pollution too behind antibiotic resistance?


Interventions targeted at individual students can improve the classroom environment and trigger a second wave of benefits for all classmates, new research shows.


Protecting few students from stereotypes can benefit classroom environment


In a good news for those who cannot shun their drink and also have "sweet tooth", scientists have discovered for the first time a liver hormone that works via brain to reduce cravings for sweets and alcohol in mammals.


Novel liver hormone cuts cravings for sweets, alcohol


Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday visited Russia's National Crisis Management Centre (NCMC), also known as EMERCOM, in Moscow and was given a rundown on how its works.


Modi studies Russian crisis management centre


Ebola virus and bats have been waging a molecular battle for survival that may have started at least 25 million years ago, revealed a new study led by an Indian-origin scientist.


Is Ebola virus one-up against bats?


A medical marijuana derivative was found safe and effective in reducing the frequency of seizures in most children and young adults enrolled in a year-long study led by epilepsy specialists in the US.


Marijuana derivative can safely reduce epilepsy seizures


Music therapy can increase effectiveness of standard rehabilitation that patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and other chronic respiratory disorders receive, said a new study.


Music therapy helps recovery from respiratory disorders


Contradicting common perception, researchers have found that low levels of vitamin D, also known as the "sunshine vitamin", does not cause or worsen sleep apnea.


Low vitamin D levels don't worsen sleep apnea


Lower levels of antibodies in saliva are associated with an elevated risk of mortality and could be an early indicator of risk, researchers from University of Birmingham have found.


Saliva can reveal risk of early death


Sitting at table number 18 during the Nobel banquet at the magnificent Stockholm City Hall, following the Nobel Prize award ceremony at the equally spectacular Stockholm Concert Hall on the same day (December 10), the day when Alfred Bernhard Nobel breathed his last, I pinched myself twice to ensure that what was unfolding before my eyes was real.


Of Nobel thoughts, royal Swedish flavour and mingling with great minds (First Person)


Psychiatric symptoms such as depression, mania, hallucinations, anxiety disorders and anorexia nervosa, even without any neurological signs, may be signs of a brain tumour, according to doctors who treated a woman thought to have treatment-resistant depression.


Psychiatric symptoms could be sign of brain tumour


If you want your daughter to shed a few pounds, better abstain from saying it in so many words and if you have to, do bring in your own weight concerns to the discussion, suggests new research.


Mother shouldn't discuss weight issue with daughters


Humans appear to be the only species who are able to remember events that they had experienced and mentally time travel not only into the past but also the future, suggests new research.


Mental time travel a unique human capacity: Study


Wellington, Dec 23 (	IANS) A German millionaire should be sent to the US to face internet piracy charges, a New Zealand judge ruled on Wednesday.


'German internet mogul must face US piracy charges'


Survivors of Ebola virus disease (EVD) experience complications relating to vision, hearing and joint pain for months after being discharged from hospital, say researchers, including one of Indian-origin.


Ebola survivors deal with vision, hearing, joint pain problems


Codeine, a widely prescribed painkiller, can also be purchased over the counter in preparations of cold/cough remedies but over consumption of such medicines can lead to a "confususional" state and loss of the ability to create new memories, says a new study.


Stay away from cough medicines containing codeine: Doctors


To challenge rivals like Facebook, global internet search engine giant Google may be building a new app that lets users chat with friends or message a chat-bot for answers.

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