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.


Google may be building chat bot-based messaging app


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India became the world's third country with the prowess to manufacture raw materials for nanomedicines, addressed a growing public health concern by approving a new drug for hepatitis C and made strides in 3D printing in healthcare as 2015 ended on a cliff-hanger with the launch of the world's first anti-dengue vaccine in Mexico giving hope to the South Asian country.

Nanomeds, combating dengue, 3D printing trended in India

US President Barack Obama folds his hands after addressing a function at Siri Fort Auditorium in New Delhi on Tuesday

Obama to present National Medal of Science to Indian-American professor

The recipient, Dr. Jain is regarded as a pioneer in the area of tumour micro-environment and is widely recognized

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Seasonal sun exposure -- a key factor in the body's natural ability to make vitamin D -- plays a substantial role in how well people do after weight loss surgery, new research has found.


Sun exposure impacts weight-loss surgery results


Washington, Dec 22 (IANS/EFE) The decline in the population of wild bees threatens agriculture in the US, where 39 percent of crops dependent on such pollinators may not receive the insects this year, a study says.


Decline of wild bees threatens US crops' pollination


The Indian nuclear establishment has denied the country is building a secret nuclear city as claimed in an article in Foreign Policy magazine of the US.


'India not building secret nuclear city'


A software engineer from the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu has received a prestigious British award for developing an innovative electronic smart key system.


Indian engineer wins British award for innovation


The brains of compulsive video game players are wired differently, says a new study that found that chronic video game play is associated with hyper connectivity between several pairs of brain networks.


Brains of compulsive video gamers wired differently


While obese children tend to have more muscles, the excess body fat may compromise other functions in their bodies, such as bone growth, says a study.


Obese kids may have weaker bones


Global climate change and biological factors such as diseases, and not the advent of agriculture, controlled long-term growth of human population for most of the past 12,000 years, says a new study.


Agriculture didn't spur growth of  human population


An Indian-American researcher has been named as a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) in recognition of his work in inventing path-breaking health care technologies, a media report said.


Indian inventor named fellow of US academy


Did you get to cuddle with your parents, play freely and feel supported in childhood? Childhood experiences like these appear to have a lot to do with well-being in adulthood, says a new study.


Parental affection in childhood vital to well-being as adults


In a first, researchers have shown that a drug that boosts activity in the brain's "garbage disposal" system can decrease levels of toxic proteins associated with Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders.


Revealed, a drug that may slow down Alzheimer's


Mammals, including humans, diversified on Earth in great numbers after the dinosaurs went extinction, researchers, including an Indian-origin scientist, report.


Human race exploded after dinosaurs went extinct


Researchers have shown that the anaesthetic ketamine, also known as "Special K" and often abused as a recreational drug, could be used to treat depression arising out of chronic overeating and stress.


Common anaesthetic could treat diet-induced depression


Positive experiences with people from another group trigger a learning effect in the brain, which increases empathy, reveals a new study.


Positive experiences increase empathy


Beyond the poetry of crashing ocean waves, salt- and carbon-rich sea spray has a dramatic effect on the formation and duration of clouds which cover 60 percent of the Earth's surface at any given time, says a study.


How sea spray affects cloud formation


Dismissing the concept of 'fat but fit', a new study has found that the protective effects of high fitness against early death are reduced in obese men.


You can't be 'fat but fit' man


In a bid to grow potatoes in the most inhospitable environments to save millions of lives on the Earth, a team of world-class scientists is set to grow potatoes under the tough Martian conditions.


Scientist to grow potatoes on Earth under Mars conditions


Night shifts not only damage health, but also put those who drive home after their shift at significantly high risk of car crashes, a US study said.


Night shift workers at high risk of car crashes: study


For 40 percent Indians, the idea of luxury is associated with more personal time and freedom and not in accumulating material things, a new global survey has revealed.

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