Health & Medicine
Study links diabetes risk with heart rate
23 May 2015
Specific genetic mutation may increase risk for breast cancer after acute estrogen withdrawal
23 May 2015
Old bones can regain youthful healing Power
21 May 2015
Diabetes screening will overwhelm India's health system: study
20 May 2015
A large-scale diabetes screening programme underway in India will overwhelm the health system with false positive results, warn researchers
Researchers close to brewing morphine from sugar
20 May 2015
A research team has developed key steps needed to turn sugar-fed yeast for producing morphine and potentially other drugs, including antibiotics and anti-cancer therapeutics
Electronic cigarette flavorings alter lung function at the cellular level
19 May 2015
Certain flavourings used in electronic cigarette liquid may alter important cellular functions in lung tissue
Tiny silicone spheres come out of the mist
18 May 2015
Pacemaker for dog with severely damaged heart saves its life
15 May 2015
Three year-old-Alice was given only days to live by vets when they discovered that her heart was so severely damaged that she was surviving on only a third of it's capacity that that was still functioning
Reports call for $2 billion fund to spur research into new antibiotics
15 May 2015
Jim O'Neill, former chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, has called for a $2-billion fund for research into new antibiotics
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The remarkable Ratan Tata
By Kiron Kasbekar | 23 Oct 2024
One newspaper report of Ratan Tata’s passing away showed an old photo of him climbing into the cockpit of a Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter.
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By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Jan 2024
In March 2013 Chinese scientists pulled off a remarkable feat. They created the world’s lightest aerogel. Tipping the scales at a mere 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimeter – that’s a sixth of the weight of air!
COP28 explained: A closer look at COP28's climate change solutions
By Aniket Gupta | 27 Dec 2023
The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28, took place from 30th November 2023, to 13th December 2023, at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
What is a Ponzi scheme?
By Aniket Gupta | 06 Dec 2023
Ponzi schemes have long captivated the public imagination, drawing unsuspecting investors into a web of illusion and deception.
The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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