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A Healthy Lifestyle Cuts Stroke Risk, Irrespective of Genetic Risk People at high genetic risk of stroke can still reduce their chance of having a stroke by sticking to a healthy lifestyle, in particular stopping smoking and not being overweight, finds a study in The BMJ today. Stroke is a complex disease caused […]
Brain Training App Helps Reduce OCD Symptoms, Study Finds A ‘brain training’ app developed at the University of Cambridge could help people who suffer from obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) manage their symptoms, which may typically include excessive handwashing and contamination fears. In a study published in the journal Scientific Reports, Baland Jalal and Professor […]
Will the UK agree to an extended transition period, keeping it bound by EU rules for longer after exiting the EU? Here, Professor Kenneth Armstrong outlines three “potential models” to extend the transition period, as explored in his new research paper published today. For some time now, both the United Kingdom and European Union have […]
Over 500 students of Uttarakhand’s National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Srinagar vacated the campus on Tuesday. The students have been demanding a permanent campus building of NIT. The students have threatened that they would boycott the lectures until the “unsafe” campus is shifted from its present location along NH-58 in Srinagar Garhwal town. […]
Twenty-four government schools in Chandigarh will provide parking space to public in the wake of the festival rush during the upcoming fortnight. The campus of these schools will remain open in the evening to accommodate vehicles. Two open spaces and a college have also been designated as a parking space, and will be open […]
The 41st Annual Chandigarh Sangeet Sammelan will commence from October 26 in auditorium of Strawberry Fields High School in Sector 26. The three-day event will be organized by Indian National Theatre. According to DailyPioneer, Some outstanding artists from different parts of the country will give their performance at this festival. On first day, Ojesh […]
Cattle pound project in Panchkula has been stopped due to shortage of technical staff in the municipal corporation. The project was to be constructed in Sukhdarshanpur village, and local public had pinned a lot of hope on this project. “The shortage of senior technical hands makes it hard for us to carry on with […]
Indian Ministry of Home Affairs has announced that it is now optional for Sikh women to wear helmets in Chandigarh. The Union Territory administration of Chandigarh has been advised that for Sikh women riding a two wheeler or sitting pillion, it may be made optional to wear protective head gear, as per the extant […]
American Space Agency NASA has shared an image of a nearly perfect rectangular iceberg floating just off the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica. The almost perfect 90-degree angles of this slab of ice may puzzle many people, making them think that this geometrical shape was deliberately carved with a gigantic chainsaw. It is […]
Researchers from Australia’s Department of the Environment and Energy have spotted on camera a rarely seen sea cucumber (Enypniastes eximia) that looks like a bulbous, red, headless chicken. This weird marine creature was spotted in the in Southern Ocean waters off East Antarctica. Researchers are surprised about the location of the discovery as the […]
In a joint mission, Europe and Japan have successfully sent a spacecraft into Mercury’s orbit. The spacecraft named BepiColombo was sent atop Ariane 5 rocket launched from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou at 01:45:28 GMT on 20 October. According to the European Space Agency (ESA) and Japanese Space Agency (JAXA), the spacecraft is now travelling […]
The Public Health Agency of Canada has announced that it is investigating the outbreak of salmonella infections in five provinces: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Quebec. The source of outbreak is yet to be determined, although officials are investigating the role of cucumbers behind this outbreak as many people who became sick reported eating […]
A lunar meteorite that was found last year in northwest Africa has been sold for US$612,500, according to the Associated Press. The chunk of moon weighed 12 pounds (5.5 Kg), and composed of six fragments (largest fragment weighing about 6 pounds). It was discovered in Mauritania in northwest Africa, and unofficially called the “The […]
The mystery of strange, metal object that was found on a California farm has finally been solved. On October 18, a walnut farmer in Southern California discovered a weird, large metal object in his orchard. The farm is located south of Hanford, about half an hour south of Fresno. According to the farmer, this object […]
University of Alberta (UA) paleontologists have helped identify the fossil of an ancient baby sea monster discovered in Kansas, United States. According to researchers, this fossil is about 85 million years old, and belongs to a newborn Tylosaurus that died shortly after its birth. At the time of its death, it had not developed the […]
After returning to the United States following last week’s aborted launch of a Soyuz-FG rocket, NASA astronaut Nick Hague shared the details of the incident to the Associated Press in an interview. The astronaut described what actually happened after failure of Soyuz rocket forced the capsule to fly away from the failing rocket at speeds […]
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Starts Asteroid Operations Campaign (Update: 24 August 2018) NASA’s asteroid sampling spacecraft, the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) was launched on September 8m 2016, and last week the probe captured the first glimpse of asteroid Bennu from a distance of about 1.4 million miles while beginning its final approach toward […]
Archeologists from the Indian Department of Archaeology have unearthed over 1,000 war rockets of 18th Century Mysore ruler Tipu Sultan in India. These rockets are about 250–270 years’ old and were discovered from the silt of an abandoned well in a village named Nagara in Shivamogga region of Karnataka. The village is located about 385 […]
Researchers have unearthed 174-year-old fossils of a long-neck, plant-eating dinosaur in northwestern China’s Lingwu region. According to scientists, this dinosaur was a neosauropod—a member of the sauropods group of dinosaurs that were characterized by long necks and tails, small heads, and pillar-like legs. This latest discovery has forced researchers to rethink the history of long-necked […]
Lobbyists spent more than two billion dollars between 2000 and 2016 to influence climate-change-related legislation in the U.S. Congress, according to a new study carried out by the researchers from the Drexel University in the U.S. The analysis found that the fossil fuel companies, electrical utilities sector, and transport companies—which were likely to be hugely […]
France and Croatia have qualified for the World Cup Football 2018 final which will be played on Sunday, July 15, at 11 a.m. ET. In first semifinal, France – the pre-tournament favorite – beat Belgium to reserve a berth in the final. In second semifinal, Croatia proved doubters wrong to beat England 2-1 and move […]
NASA scientists and engineers working on NASA’s Mars InSight mission will start visiting cities in the Southern California region from June 29. NASA’s Mars InSight Roadshow will stop at different cities throughout quake-prone California and to help people understand how the robotic lander that Insight Missions is carrying will probe the deep interior the Red […]
A team of scientists at Goethe University Frankfurt and the FIAS has developed new models to estimate the size of neutron stars. According to the latest research, size of neutron stars doesn’t exceed the limit of 1.5 kilometers. In comparison, previous estimates about neutron star size varied from eight to sixteen kilometers. The new models […]
NASA’s Terra satellite has captured new images of Tropical Storm Daniel. These pictures were taken by the satellite’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS instrument on June 24 when the storm was off the west coast of Mexico. According to NASA, the storm had degenerated into a remnant low pressure area by June 26. […]