City planners need to incorporate the potential of the western Indian coastline as a tsunami-prone area, when they plan urban habitats in the region, an expert has said.


Western Indian coastline is tsunami prone: Scientist


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Even as the Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore remains the country's top university, its global ranking has dropped two notches to 152 in the latest QS World University Rankings 2016-17 released on Tuesday.


IISc Bangalore remains India's top university, global ranking drops


Obesity usually shortens our lifespan but a new US study found that overweight patients with advanced kidney cancer had significantly longer survival than those who were normal or underweight.


Obese patients with kidney cancer may live longer: Study


Your body mass index (BMI) may determine the risk of asthma in childhood. While overweight adolescent girls may be at a higher risk of hospital admission due to asthma, boys who are underweight are likely to be at risk of being admitted with the lungs disease, a study said.


Being obese or underweight ups risk of asthma in adolescents


A smaller foetal size during the first and second trimesters of pregnancy can signficantly increase the risk of asthma and reduce the lung function in children, a study has found.


Small foetal size may up risk of asthma in kids


As the Vatican conferred sainthood on Mother Teresa, an organisation promoting scientific thinking on Sunday ridiculed Indian politicians for attending the canonisation ceremony that "promoted superstition" and asked them to distribute her pictures instead of opening hospitals.


'Distribute Teresa's pictures instead of opening hospitals'


At the dinner table, babies pay close attention to what food is being eaten around them -- and especially who is eating it, suggests an interesting study.


Your baby might be watching what you eat


Smoking cannabis can make people less willing to work for money while "high", finds a study.


Pot reduces short-term motivation to work for money


A team of experts is working with NASA to determine what medical training and technology astronauts need so that they can respond to any emergency like a heart attack, even when they have lost contact with the Earth.


How NASA aims to tackle medical emergencies in deep space


Some high-risk gene variants, such as those for Alzheimer's disease or cancer, can persisted in the population for a long time without disappearing and researchers have now discovered why these harmful gene variants do not get weeded out by natural section in the course of evolution.


Why hereditary diseases are so hard to get rid of


: Jharkhand Governor Draupadi Murmu announced on Saturday that she will donate her eyes at the Run of Vision programme organised by Kashyap Memorial Eye Hospital (KMEH), Ranchi.


Jharkhand governor pledges to donate eyes


Learning foreign languages enhances our brain's elasticity and its ability to code information, a study has found.


Learning foreign languages may sharpen our brain


Scientists are set to name a new fish after US President Barack Obama honouring his decision to create a new protected area off the Hawaiian coast.


Scientists name new fish after Obama


In a first, researchers in New Zealand have observed a dolphin breathing through its mouth after it developed a faulty blowhole.


This dolphin has learned to breathe through mouth


Women who were bullied in their childhood are more likely to struggle with emotional damage, greater levels of depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) than their male peers, according to a study.


ullying likely to depress women more than men


A new influenza virus that affects cattle has an official name -- influenza D, as proposed by South Dakota State University researchers -- including one of Indian origin -- who discovered it.


New cattle virus officially named influenza D


Extremely low birth weight (ELBW) babies are four times more likely to develop higher body fat than other normal birth weight (NBW) babies, says a study conducted by Indian-origin researcher.


Low birth weight babies likely to develop higher body fat


The release of methane from the seafloor was much slower than previously thought during a rapid global warming event 56 million years ago, suggests new research led by University of Southampton.


Slow methane release behind climate change 56 mn years ago


Researchers at US' Stanford University have engineered a low-cost, plastic-based textile that, if woven into clothing, could become the basis for garments that keep people cool in hot climates without air conditioning.


Plastic clothing material developed to keep people cool


India's first Central Institute of Chemical Engineering and Technology is being planned to be set up in the country's commercial capital here, Chemicals and Fertilizer Minister Ananth Kumar said on Thursday.


Chemical Engineering and Technology Institute to come up in Mumbai


Childhood emotional experiences of individuals can have long lasting consequences in adulthood while they perform a task, a study revealed.

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