If you have gone through a romantic break-up recently, avoid stalking your ex on Facebook as it may make emotional recovery more difficult than ever.


Shun 'Facebook stalking' after romantic break-up


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During the last Ice Age, Australia's first human inhabitants had to contend with giant killer lizards, reveals new research that unearthed fossils of giant killer lizards.


Early Australians fought giant killer lizards


Taking blood pressure pills at bedtime rather than in the morning not only reduces BP while asleep but also lowers the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, promising research has revealed.


BP pills before sleep lower diabetes risk too


In a world's first such experiment, scientists have used non-invasive direct brain control system to get a person - with complete paralysis in both legs owing to spinal cord injury - to walk again.


Brain control helps paralysed man walk again


Although climate change has become a major concern in recent years, new research has found that clear signs of global warming emerged as early as 1940s in parts of South East Asia, Australia, and Africa.


Global warming began in 1940s


Pope Francis is on the way to address the United Nations Summit on Sustainable Development that begins on September 25 in New York. He has emerged, in a way, the most effective negotiator and the leading environmental diplomat for developing countries.


New climate negotiator: Pope fights for science, denouncing consumerism (Comment: Special to IANS)


if you cannot help sitting down for long, just do not sit still as new research suggest that  movements involved in fidgeting may counteract the adverse health impacts of sitting for long periods.


Fidgeting may counter effects of prolonged sitting


Increased consumption of fruits and non-starchy vegetables is inversely associated with weight gain, says a study.


Eat more fruits and non-starchy vegetables to stay slim


If you belong to the millennials' club -- those born after 1980s - and continue your love with selfies till you grow old, you will have a collection of over 25,000 selfies during your lifetime, an interesting research has revealed.


You will snap over 25,000 selfies in your lifetime!


Nanoengineers, including one of Indian-origin, have designed tiny machines - smaller than the width of a human hair - that rapidly zoom around in water, remove carbon dioxide and convert it into a usable solid form.


Tiny motors can tackle rising carbon dioxide levels


People undergoing treatment for drugs and alcohol addiction around the world use tobacco at two to three times the rate of people who are not being treated for addiction, finds a 20-country study.


People in addiction treatment more likely to smoke


Pairing an experimental drug with an existing one could provide a more effective way to treat a form of pancreatic cancer than a single drug, new research has found.


Drug combo could combat pancreatic cancer


New fathers please take note! You can learn a lot about good parenting from insects and save yourselves from an early death, especially if you are in the company of a low-quality partner!


Men with low-quality partners at early death risk!


The bright colours that male lizards use for sexual signalling to attract females also increase their exposure to preying birds, new research reveals.


Male lizards put their lives at risk to attract mates


Men look at negative emotions with a more "passive" point of view while women tend to focus more on feelings - thus suffering more from depression and anxiety than men, a new study has found.


Negative emotions make women more depressed than men


To accelerate cancer research, scientists have developed a "smart" robot that plans and conducts experiments with many substances and draws its own conclusions from the results.


New 'smart' robot to boost cancer research


Opening new opportunities for scientists to find treatments for cancer, Australian researchers have uncovered the role played by a gene which suppresses the development of cancer.


Uncovered: How cancer-suppressing gene works


Even young children can be selective in choosing from whom to learn and those with a good understanding of others' thoughts are more selective, suggests new research.


'Mind-reading' kids select their teachers carefully!


Loss of a 'dimmer' switch that adjusts how much or how little insulin is secreted from pancreatic cells when blood sugar increases appears to cause Type-2 diabetes, suggests new research.


'Dimmer switch' sheds new light on Type 2 diabetes cure


Just having suicidal thoughts need not necessarily suggest that you are suffering from depression as researchers have found that such depressive symptoms are extremely common in people who have obstructive sleep apnea, (OSA), a common sleep disorder.


Depression? It could be just sleep apnea


A fault in the channel of cells related to release of calcium in brain may be linked to certain forms of autism and serve both as a potential biomarker for diagnosing the disorder as well as a potential therapeutic target, new research has found.

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