A team of Swedish researchers, by using living roses, has created analogue and digital electronic circuits inside living plants, calling them "electronic plants".


'Electronic' plants to herald new era for scientists


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Prime Minister Nrendra Modi said on Saturday, the first day of his visit to Malaysia and Singapore, that an Asean-India innovation platform will be set up for research and development.


Asean-India innovation platform to be set up: Modi


Along with the rest of us, firefighters too may breathe a little easy on Sunday as a new study shows that of the more than a billion global fires that burned between 2001 and 2013, Sunday was the least active day with only 104 million fires.


Sunday the day of rest for fires too!


The air along the coasts is full of hazardous nanoparticles and almost half of the measured particles stem from sea traffic emissions, says a study.


Sea traffic alone contributes to half of coastal pollution


Humans have the best of all possible visual worlds because our full stereo vision, generating 3D pictures of its surroundings and enabling us to perform tasks like threading a needle, combines with primitive visual pathways to quickly spot danger, a new study has found.


How our eyes process danger and emotions


Not inclined to see your ex-flame's newfound joy thrown in your face every time you log on to your Facebook account? Well, Facebook now has a solution that spares you the dilemma of taking the drastic "unfriend" step.


Limit you ex's intrusion with new Facebook tools


Elderly people who walk faster and longer face a lower risk of cardio-vascular disease (CVD), a large prospective community-based study of older Americans has found.


Walking faster, longer good for elderly


In a new breakthrough in cancer treatment, University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (CRCHUM) researchers have developed an injectable 'biogel' that can effectively deliver anti-cancer agents directly into tumours and kill them.


New intelligent gel directly attacks cancer


Taking caffeine in moderate amounts during pregnancy does not cause any harm to child's intelligence, says a study from Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio.


Little caffeine during pregnancy not bad for baby's IQ


In a world's first, a group of cardiologists has successfully used the eye-wearable device Google Glass to guide the opening up of a chronically blocked right coronary artery in the cardiac cath lab.


Google Glass helps cardiologists open blocked heart artery


Exposure to e-cigarette advertisements may enhance curiosity and usage among young adults, says a study.


E-cigarette ads trigger use in young adults


A team of the US researchers has developed a functional artificial pancreas that has performed well in humans in clinical settings.


Artificial pancreas performed well in humans in US


Researchers from the University of Southampton are developing a new type of drug that may help bones heal faster and better.


New drug to help bones heal faster, better


Weight loss surgery curbs sugar craving by acting on the brain's reward system, a new study has found.


How weight-loss surgery reduce sugar craving


A surgical robot in China's Guangdong province successfully carried out a kidney surgery on a six-year-old boy, a media report said on Friday.


Robot performs first kidney surgery in China


Not just making you calm and creating a feeling of kindness, a mere seven-minute of meditation daily can help reduce racial bias too, a new study shows.


Just seven minutes of meditation can cut racial prejudice


As the tightening animal protection laws in the US make it difficult for researchers to experiment with apes, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has decided to cease its chimp programme altogether.


No more chimps for research in US


One in 20 survivors of gunshot violence in an urban area with high crime, died within five years, according to the results of a study that tracked patients after they had been discharged from the hospital that treated them.


Gunshot survivors face early death risk


Deciding whether to cook or toss a steak that has been in the refrigrator for a few days calls for a sniff test. Scientists have now discovered a method that uses nanotubes to quickly detect spoilage.


Nanotube test will say if meat is spoilt


An insulin pill being developed by researchers led by an Indian American scientist at the University of California-Santa Barbara may in the near future give an easier blood sugar management option to diabetics.


Soon, a pill to manage diabetes


Watching 3D images of tongue movements can help individuals learn speech sounds, a new study by University of Texas researchers indicated.

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