Higgs boson, the last missing cornerstone of the accepted “standard model” in particle physics, might finally show up. Recent results from LHC experiments show “intriguing flu-ctuations” or signals at the low mass range, most likely to be Higgs’s hiding place.

INTRODUCING HUMAN cells into animals needs better regulation in keeping with popular ethical opinion and to avoid running into “Frankenstein” in the future, an elite group of British medical scientists have warned.

A team of researchers are claiming to have successfully tested a vaccine against heroine.

PASSIVE SMOKING is a serious problem. Those who light up on a daily basis are well aware of fatal risks they are subjecting themselves to, and still choose to dodge these fears mentally.

Nasa’s asteroid trotting spacecraft called Dawn is set to enter into orbit around Vesta — the second largest asteroid in our solar system. As it approaches the 530 km-diameter prehistoric spacerock, it has been busy snapping pictures and relaying them back to earth. These pictures are the fist detailed view of the asteroid and shows rough parallel ridges, overall smooth surface and the expanse of the massive impact crater.

A NATURAL protein has been found to activate modifying stem cells in replacing heart muscle cells damaged in a stroke. The ability to replenish the heart with fresh cells is lost in adults. Scientists at the University College London Institute of Child Health have demonstrated in mice, the reactivation of heart progenitor cells to produce fresh heart

The edge of our solar system is not a smooth graceful curvature of the sun’s magnetic field, as previously believed but a “turbulent sea of magnetic bubbles,” Nasa has speculated.

Cattle plague, a fatal viral infection that infects hoofed animals, has been wiped off from all countries in the world, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations has announced. Also called rinderpest, it is the first animal disease and second of all infectious diseases in history to be entirely eradicated by human efforts.

IVF practitioners should retrieve around 15 egg cells in a single cycle from hopeful mothers to attain optimum likelihood of live birth, according to a collaborative study by British scientists.

In a few months, China will start assembling its 60-tonne space station in the earth’s orbit. This year’s mission will deliver the 18.1-meter long core module, which will be appended with two other modules in subsequent manned missions. The China Manned Space Engineering Office also confirmed their plans of building a cargo