A condition of severe weakness called Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), prevalent in the UK Asian community, affects atleast 2.6 per cent of the country’s population and incurs heavy financial burden on

UK scientists are set to perform preliminary tests for game-changing technology that will engineer the atmosphere to counter global warming.

Fresh analysis of a 2 million-year-old hominid fossils discovered in 2008 has led to the realisation that tool making ability came from species existing much before our genus — Homo. This makes Australopithe-cus sediba, not only the

There are 8.74 million species in the world, give or take 1.3 million, and around 90 per cent of them remain undiscovered, according to the calculations of a group of pioneering scientists. They are the first ones to offer a precise figure for the total number of living species in the ecosystem; for decades this crucial statistic has been considered to lie anywhere between three and 100 million.

Species of plants, mammals, birds and bugs have been found relocating rapidly towards the poles, in search for cooler habitats as the globe warms.

Mapping the stress exposure acting on the world’s coral has identified the reefs most at risk of bleaching due to climate change and also the human communities that might be reinforcing their decline.

A new biomedical technology, born out of micro-manufacturing called epidermal electronic system (EES) is ultra thin, self adhesive and calculates biomechanics wirelessly.

People with Adermatoglyphia, dubbed “immigration delay disease” go through life sans fingerprints; they are born without them.

WE NEVER see the farside of the moon. What we see from earth on any day of the month is always the same hemisphere, as it is tidally locked to us, which means it takes the exact same time to revolve around the earth as it does to rotate on its own axis.

ASIAN ELEPHANTS were always considered shy, living in small social circles as compared to their African counterparts. A new study at Uda Walawe National Park in Sri Lanka reveals they are much more connected and have extensive social affiliations.