Grow-your-own households eat more fruit and vegetables and waste less

Household fruit and vegetable production, in allotments and gardens, could be key to a healthy and food-secure population, a new study from the University of Sheffield has found.

Gene therapy hope for children with kidney disease

Researchers at the University of Bristol have made a remarkable step forward in finding a potential cure for a type of childhood kidney disease.

Mars: new evidence of an environment conducive to the emergence of life

The surface of Mars, unlike the Earth's, is not constantly renewed by plate tectonics.

Indian long pepper (Pippali): a wonder plant

Long pepper (Piper longum L.) commonly known as Pippali, Indian or Javanese long pepper is a slender, aromatic plant grown for its small red spikes which are tremendously used in traditional medicine systems.

Novel molecules fight viruses by bursting their bubble-like membranes

Antiviral therapies are notoriously difficult to develop, as viruses can quickly mutate to become resistant to drugs. But what if a new generation of antivirals ignores the fast-mutating proteins on the surface of viruses and instead disrupts their protective layers?

How Breast Milk Boosts the Brain

A new study by scientists at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA) at Tufts University suggests that a micronutrient in human breast milk provides significant benefit to the developing brains of newborns, a finding that further illuminates the link between nutrition and brain health and could help improve infant formulas used in circumstances when breastfeeding isn't possible.

About 1 in 3 vertebrate species is used, eaten or traded by humans, study finds

A cheetah pouncing on a gazelle. A bear snatching a fish out of the water with its claws.

Six Foods to Boost Cardiovascular Health

A study led by McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences researchers at the Population Research Health Institute (PHRI) has found that not eating enough of six key foods in combination is associated with a higher risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in adults.

How to overcome the multi-drug resistance (MDR) in bacteria?

Multi drug resistance (MDR) is a major hurdle faced by medical personals around the globe while treating severe bacterial infections. Such infections may either arise due to some diseased condition or as a result of postsurgical side effects.

The Arctic Could Go Ice-Free In Summer By 2030

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean), it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest continent, being about 40% larger than Europe, and has an area of 14,200,000 km2 (5,500,000 sq mi). Most of Antarctica is covered by the Antarctic ice sheet, with an average thickness of 1.9 km

Universe's lightest element to solve its biggest threat

Until Carl Benz invented world's first automobile, the three-wheeled Motorwagen, in 1886, humans primarily used their legs to travel. Then there were also domesticated animals such as horses and camels, and carts and chariots that took people from one place to the other. But things completely changed when motor vehicles came into use

Origins and composition of planet Mars

A new study has uncovered intriguing insights into the liquid core at the centre of Mars, furthering understanding of the planet's formation and evolution

E-Cigarettes And Cocaine Delivery

Cocaine is a potent stimulant drug that is widely used for recreational purposes. It has been known to provide an intense high that can quickly lead to addiction and other negative consequences

World's largest Living Plant is a Seagrass

High-school textbooks have made us learn that there is a Giant Seqouia tree in Sequoia National Park in California that is over 300 feet tall and is the largest plant on this Earth

Glutamate Receptor Antagonist: A Potential Threat to Developing Nervous System

Glutamate receptor antagonists are powerful drugs that are extensively used in modern medicine for their analgesic and anaesthetic properties

Half of world's largest lakes losing water

More than 50 percent of the largest lakes in the world are losing water, according to a ground breaking new assessment published in Science. The key culprits are not surprising: warming climate and unsustainable human consumption

CYTISINE: Smoking Cessation Aid

Smoking remains one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide with over a billion people being smokers and up to 7 million deaths annually being attributed to tobacco use

Unsustainable coffee production is making more and more people sick

Intensive pesticide use on coffee farms around the world is leading to progressively more reports of poor human and animal health

Himalayan glaciers melting 65% faster than previous decade

Himalayan glaciers providing critical water to nearly two billion people are melting faster than ever before due to climate change, exposing communities to unpredictable and costly disasters, scientists have warned

Mushrooms Magnify Memory By Boosting Nerve Growth

Researchers from The University of Queensland have discovered the active compound from an edible mushroom that boosts nerve growth and enhances memory.

Plants Emit Sounds Under Stress

The sounds emitted by plants are ultrasonic, beyond the hearing range of the human ear.

Extracting water from air

For human beings, nothing can replace water and drinking water has always been in demand with the increasing population.

Discovery of Lithium in Jammu and Kashmir: an immense potential

Lithium is the third element in the periodic table after hydrogen and helium.

Atoms in preserving the past

Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci needs no introduction. He was a man apart.

Drugs against drought

Abscisic acid (ABA) is a plant hormone with essential functions in plant physiology.

Impact of oil spills on marine life

Oil spills contamination has spread throughout the marine ecosystem as a result of human activity.

Birds with neurotoxim-laden feathers

An expedition into the jungle of New Guinea has resulted in the of two new species of poisonous birds by researchers from the University of Copenhagen.

Life-Building Organic Molecules Found in Samples from Asteroid Ryuga

The asteroid Ryugu is rich in organic molecules that could serve as the building blocks of life.

Scientists identify compounds that reduce the harmful side effects of antibiotics on gut bacteria

Antibiotics help to fight bacterial infections, but they can also harm the helpful microbes living in the gut, which can have long-lasting health consequences.

Emerging zoonotic viral disease caused by Nipah virus; a spill over from fruit bats to human

Nipah virus (NiV), an emerging zoonotic virus, Nbelongs to the family Paramyxoviridae subfamily Paramyxovirinae and genus Henipavirus.