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mental health, drugs, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease,

Mental Health: Scientists discover two repurposed drugs to halt Alzheimer's and Parkinson's

Building up of misfolded proteins takes place in the brain due to neurodegenerative diseases and it also is one of the main causes of dementias like Prion, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases.

Apr 21, 2017

Why fingerprint can't guarantee security for your iPhone or Samsung Galaxy smartphone

Researchers have found that partial similarities between prints could make fingerprint-based security systems vulnerable.

Apr 21, 2017

negative mass, black hole, dark energy, space

Negative mass created by American physicists could be used to solve cosmic mysteries

Theoretically, like an electric charge can be either negative or positive, matter can also have negative matter and negative mass too.

Apr 20, 2017

Students could soon be subjected to airport-style checks to curb cheating in exams

MPs and universities in the United Kingdom believe that students should be subjected to metal detector checks, similar to the ones carried out at airports.

Apr 19, 2017

IIT Delhi 'dress code' for women removed from notice board after outrage

The notice issued by the warden of a women's hostel said the students should "wear fully covered decent western or Indian dresses" for the House Day on April 20.

Apr 18, 2017

Santhosh Pandit, Mammootty, Ajai Vasudev, Udaykrishna

This is how netizens reacted to Santhosh Pandit teaming up with Mammootty in Ajai Vasudev's movie

Many netizens have been praising Mammootty for allowing Santhosh Pandit to be part of his upcoming movie.

Apr 18, 2017

gin, diabetes, metabolism, health, alcohol,

Gin health benefits: Boosts metabolism, eases arthritis and is safe for diabetics!

Gin is also to be extremely low in calories; a shot of gin comprises just 97 calories, but mixing it with sugary liquids can adversely impact its effect on the body.

Apr 15, 2017

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's AOL foundation rejects NGT panel report

The NGT expert panel report said that the World Culture Festival has completely destroyed the Yamuna floodplains.

Apr 13, 2017

Dileep answers questions on everyone's mind: Why he divorced Manju Warrier, married Kavya Madhavan, and more [VIDEO]

Dileep said he had decided to give media interviews only after the release of Georgettan's Pooram.

Apr 11, 2017

coral reef, great barrier reef, environment, global warming, coral bleaching, mass bleaching,

End of the Great Barrier Reef? Second mass bleaching means Earth's greatest natural wonder may never recover

Researchers covered more than 8,000km of the Great Barrier Reef and found that only a third of its southern region was unaffected by the bleaching

Apr 10, 2017

Earth, carbon dioxide, climate change, atmosphere, Triassic period,

Climate change could send Earth's atmosphere back to the Triassic period...and that's not good

The pollution churned out by fossil fuels has increased atmospheric concentrations of CO2 from 280 parts per million (ppm) in the pre-industrialization era, to nearly 405 ppm in 2016.

Apr 10, 2017

yoga, ulcerative colitis , life, health,

Yoga benefits ulcerative colitis patients by enhancing their quality of life

It is estimated that 1 to 20 per 100,000 people get diagnosed with ulcerative colitis (UC) annually.

Apr 8, 2017

Chetan Kumar Cheetah, Bandipora, Kiren Rijiju

Chetan Kumar Cheetah, CRPF commandant who was shot 9 times in Bandipora encounter, gets discharged from AIIMS Delhi [VIDEO]

Cheetah got injured in an encounter between terrorists and security forces in the Hajin area of Bandipora district in Jammu and Kashmir on February 14. Three soldiers and one terrorist were killed in the encounter.

Apr 5, 2017

Legion season 2 spoilers: Professor X Patrick Stewart unlikely to appear in season 2?

With Professor X Patrick Stewart interested in reprising his role in the TV show, Noah Hawley reveals what to expect in season 2.

Apr 4, 2017

Maths professor pulls incredible April Fools prank on his class

A maths professor at Biola University, California, pulled off an excellent April Fool’s Day prank on his students in a gag that involved some intricate video editing, lots of creativity and live-action tricks.During class, Matthew Weathers started a video, intended to help him clean a blotch off his screen – only for the video’s character (also Weathers) to start talking back and interacting with him. Weathers catches a lightsaber thrown to him from inside the screen and uses it to remove the whiteboard marker stain, to the applause of his class. Weathers has a long history of using such techniques to pull April Fool’s jokes on his students – and has regularly gone viral – so expect this one to do the same.

Apr 3, 2017

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