If global emissions continue to rise, drylands could cover over half of the world's land surface by 2100, according to a study.


Global warming to accelerate drylands expansion: Study


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An international research team has found a tomb dating back to about 1500 BC filled with Bronze Age wealth and weapons at the town of Pylos in Greece.


Tomb filled with Bronze Age wealth found


While expressing anger may help men influence others, women actually lose influence over others when they allow anger into an argument, says a new study.


Angry women lose influence


A cellular signal can tell doctors that a woman is about to go into labour, according to a study led by an Indian-origin scientist in the US.


Signal that tells when labour about to begin


Females tend to have more sexual partners when they live in colder climates and are happier being monogamous when it is hotter, a study has found.


Females tend to have more sexual partners in colder climates


Men and women have very different emotional reactions to the strain and support they experience in marriage, new research has found.


Marital strain makes women sad, men angry


Expectant mothers in their first trimester should avoid certain cosmetics, cleaning agents and medicines, to protect the developing fetal brain from chemicals that can trigger autism, suggest health researchers from York University in Canada.


Avoid cosmetics during first trimester for a healthy baby


A stem cell bank in Singapore, which will allow members of the public to store their own stem cells for the future, is set to open on Tuesday, officials confirmed on Monday.


Singapore to open public stem cell bank


Researchers have identified a protein that is essential for the spread of dengue infection in mosquitoes. Blocking this protein could be the strategy for developing dengue vaccines.


New mechanism to inhibit dengue virus infection


When a person is diagnosed with cancer, they experience significant decrease in the probability of working, in the number of hours they work and, correspondingly, in their incomes, a study finds.


How cancer is financially ruining too


The American Academy of Paediatrics (AAP) has strongly recommended that the minimum age to purchase tobacco products -- including e-cigarettes -- should be increased to 21 years nationwide.


US wants stronger regulations of e-cigarettes


Climate change poses a threat to human health and safety, but children are uniquely vulnerable, especially those in the poorest countries, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) said in a policy statement released on Monday.


Global warming puts children at greater health risk


Want to avoid the debilitating knee pain? Keep moving, scientists suggest as they have found a mechanism that explains how motion can cause cartilage in the joints to reabsorb synovial fluid that leaks out in some conditions.


Activity may help you keep knee pain at bay


Despite global efforts to increase the protected area of the oceans, only four percent lies within marine-protected areas (MPAs), according to a study.


Only 4 percent of world's ocean is protected: Study


Instead of fasting, eating a light meal during labour would benefit most healthy women, suggests new research.


Light meal during labour benefits most healthy women


Antibiotic use following surgery for complicated appendicitis may do more harm than good, suggests new research.


Antibiotics after appendicitis surgery prolong hospital stay


Opening the door for the development of new treatment of the lethal disease sepsis, scientists have identified a gene that triggers the inflammatory condition.


Gene that triggers sepsis identified


Some of the software industry's top leaders and various stakeholders from 141 countries convened here on Sunday as global software major Oracle's OpenWorld 2015 conference opened the door for an ultimate cloud experience.


Oracle US conference begins with ultimate cloud experience


Some of the software industry's top leaders and other key stakeholders from 141 countries convened here on Sunday as global software major Oracle's OpenWorld 2015 conference opened the door for an ultimate cloud experience.


Oracle US conference opens with ultimate cloud experience


Scientists have discovered two new methane-metabolising organisms whose role in greenhouse gas emissions and consumption is not yet known.


New methane organisms discovered


The number of opiate receptors in the brain, critical in the modulation of pain behaviour, increase to combat severe pain in arthritis sufferers, according to a study.

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