A smartphone app can replace traditional methods to improve the quality of data collection related to food safety observations in restaurants and supermarkets without any fuss, scientists report.


App to help conduct concealed food safety observations


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Visual cortex, the part of the brain responsible for seeing, can take decisions just like the brain's traditional "higher level" areas, finds a study.


Your visual cortex can take important decisions


While "baby blues" as well as prenatal depression are linked mainly with women, researchers have now found that a significant number of first-time expectant fathers too experience depression during their partner's pregnancy.


Not just moms, expectant dads get depressed too


Unpredictable stress during adolescence may help us deal with future challenges more efficiently, suggests new research.


Stress in adolescence may prime you for future challenges


The National Jute Board (NJB) in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Technology - Kharagpur is developing jute-based sanitary pads which could help prevent cervical cancer.


Indian scientists developing sanitary napkins from jute


Women with a gene variant associated with Alzheimer's disease experience a steeper decline in body mass index (BMI) after age 70 than those women without the version of the gene, says a study.


Steep weight loss in older women indicates Alzheimer's risk


Major volcanic eruptions can have a significant effect on the flow of the biggest rivers around the world, researchers said.


Volcanic eruptions effect river flow


A team of international researchers has discovered abundant wildlife population at Chernobyl, the site of the 1986 nuclear accident that released radioactive particles into the environment and forced a massive evacuation.


Wildlife population thriving in Chernobyl: Study


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For old timers with a relaxed, laid back attitude towards life, this news will come as a fresh breeze of air. Researchers have finally revealed that face-to-face socialising with friends or family members is more powerful than making phone calls or sending emails in guarding against depression.


Shun phone calls, emails, socialise more to kill depression


Irish-born William Campell, China's Tu Youyou and Japan's Satoshi Omura won the 2015 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine, it was announced on Monday.


Three share Nobel Prize for medicine


If you are a beer lover, you already know that lager beers differ little in taste than the tastier ale beers. Now, researchers have developed new yeast strains that will soon result in sizzling new beer flavours.


Cheers! New flavoured lager beers to flow soon


US researchers have developed a new technique to produce a 3D 'micro-printed' array of needles capable of delivering drug without causing any pain, thereby offering a potential alternative to painful injections.


3D printed micro-needles to make drug delivery pain-free


Three share Nobel Prize for medicine

They got the prize for their work on malaria, roundworm parasites

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An Indian-American engineering professor will lead a US consortium to identify emerging advanced manufacturing technologies to enhance the country's innovation ecosystem, manufacturing competitiveness and national security, the White House has announced.


Indian-American to lead US manufacturing 'think-and-do' tank


Children with congenital heart disease and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can take stimulant medications without fear of significant cardiovascular side effects, claims a study.


Stimulant drugs safe for kids with ADHD: Study


A team of British scientists led by an Indian-origin professor has developed the world's first entirely light-based memory chip to store data permanently that can help dramatically improve the speed of modern computing.


Light-based memory chip that permanently stores data


In the dusty, high desert of central Nevada, a team of researchers from University of Montana has found the fossil record of the earliest North American coral species that reappeared after the Triassic-Jurassic mass extinction event.


Earliest Jurassic corals discovered


The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday approved the drug Keytruda to treat the most common form of lung cancer.


FDA approves immunotherapy drug to fight lung cancer


Fusion reactors can become an economically viable and safe means of generating electricity within a few decades, researchers report.


Fusion reactors more economically viable: Experts


A single neuron in a normal adult brain may carry more than a thousand genetic mutations most of which may be harmless, new research has found.

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