New edible films containing oils from clove and oregano can preserve bread longer than commercial additives, a study shows.


New edible films to preserve bread longer


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Do you regularly drink to excess? Even before conception, a son's vulnerability for alcohol use disorders could be shaped by a father who chronically drinks to excess, a significant study indicates.


Father's drinking habits may alter son's genes


Planning to start a family? Stop using marijuana now as cannabis use may put your fertility at risk, especially if you are young.


Stop marijuana use to boost fertility: Study


Cartilage implants that reduce the need for knee replacement operations could be a lot more advanced as researchers have developed a special kind of tweezers that use ultrasound beams to grip and manipulate tiny clusters of cells.


Gravity-defying tweezers to improve medical implants


Love gulping down cans of beverages or juices to chill out this summer?


High fructose in beverages harming soda consumers: Study


What if you can clean the air inside your home with roof tiles? This may soon be a reality with a roof tile coating that when applied to an average-sized residential roof breaks down the same amount of smog-causing nitrogen oxides per year as a car driven 17,600 km.


Cheap roof tile coating can clear heavy smog


The key to preventing fatty liver disease, the most common cause of chronic liver disease worldwide, may lie in avoiding sugar-sweetened drinks.


Sugar-heavy drinks up fatty liver disease risk


Do you stay up late at night busy surfing internet or chatting on your smart phone and wake up only when morning turns into noon?


Night owls run great risk of becoming couch potatoes


What has purchasing a car and sex in common? Well, give your wavering thoughts a rest here as some Americans feel that it is better to give up sex than haggle over the price of a car!


Car buyers ready to give up sex than haggle over prices: Study


We have long wondered at the complex navigation abilities of the bees who use the sun as a compass. But bees do memorise a mental map too, like humans, despite their much smaller brain size, new research reveals adding a whole new dimension to complex bee-navigation abilities that have long fascinated scientists.


Bees create mental maps to reach home


Welcome to the mesmerizing world of silk symphony. Here silk transmits vibrations across a wide range of harmonics to its native - the spider.


How spiders listen to 'Silk Route' and tune their web


Since 2009, catfish farming in Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas in the US has been seriously impacted by an emerging strain of Aeromonas hydrophila bacteria that causes serious infection - leading to death in as little as 12 hours.


Bacteria causing catfish deaths in US traced to China


Do you know why you look for chocolates or sweets when under intense stress? Because stress-activated hormones are hidden in oral taste cells responsible for detection of sweet and get activated under stress.


How stress hormones drive you eat more sugar


There is a "concerning pattern" among young Canadian students in watching porn and 'sexting' has also become commonplace among teenagers, a survey shows.


Watching porn, sexting on rise among Canadian teenagers: Survey


The much speculated birth control pill for males may not see the light of day soon as researchers have found that hormonal male contraception via testosterone does not stop the production of healthy sperm.


Male contraceptive pill will have to wait


Researchers, including an Indian-origin scientist, have developed sperm look-alike robots that can be used for drug delivery, in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), cell sorting and other applications at the microscopic level.


Sperm-inspired microbots to deliver drugs


Stress during pregnancy can affect the baby in your womb in many ways as researchers have found that foetuses are more likely to show left-handed movements in the womb when their mothers are stressed.


Stressed mothers may affect behaviour of the unborn


Keeping the years off your face may soon become a lot easier as researchers have now discovered new evidence that anti-diabetic drug metformin slows aging and increases lifespan.


Anti-diabetic drug may slow aging too


Do you judge a person just by looking at his/her photo and repent later when your expectations are not fulfilled?


First impressions are not last impressions


If you are not obese, thank your stomach bacteria called Helicobacter pylori.


Obesity linked with gut bacteria


Apart from late-night parties, good night's sleep and some real action, the time between midnight to 4 a.m. is also known for another thing - suicide.

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