Extreme cold winters fuelled by jet stream and climate change, says study

Nov 01, 2016, at 01:57 am

London, Oct 31 (IBNS): Scientists have agreed for the first time that recent severe cold winter weather in the UK and US may have been influenced by climate change in the Arctic, according to a new study.

Venom from deadly Asian snake may help in developing improved painkillers

Nov 01, 2016, at 01:45 am

Melbourne, Oct 31 (IBNS): One of the world’s most beautiful and venomous snakes has a venom unlike that of any other snake, research involving University of Queensland scientists has revealed.

6.6 earthquake hits Italy, no casualty

Oct 30, 2016, at 09:29 pm

Milan, Oct 30 (IBNS): AN earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale hit Italy on Sunday, media reports said.

Union Minister urges Karnataka forest dept to take good care of injured wild elephant Sidda

Oct 29, 2016, at 11:32 pm

Bengaluru, Oct 29 (IBNS): Union Minister for Women and Child Development, Maneka Gandhi, who is also known for her animal rights activism, urged Karnataka's Ramanagaram forest officials to provide proper medical care for critically injured wild elephant Sidda, according to media reports.

World Stroke Day: Union Health Minister urges citizens to circulate right information

Oct 29, 2016, at 06:36 pm

New Delhi, Oct 29 (IBNS): Union Health Minister Jagat Prakash Nadda on Saturday urged citizens to spread correct information among dear ones, on the occasion of World Stroke day.

See how Arctic Sea ice is losing its bulwark against warming summer

Oct 29, 2016, at 02:25 pm

Washington, Oct 29 (IBNS): Arctic sea ice, the vast sheath of frozen seawater floating on the Arctic Ocean and its neighboring seas, has been hit with a double whammy over the past decades: as its extent shrunk, the oldest and thickest ice has either thinned or melted away, leaving the sea ice cap more vulnerable to the warming ocean and atmosphere.

High resting heart rate, blood pressure linked to later mental health disorders

Oct 29, 2016, at 12:32 am

London, Oct 28 (IBNS): A high resting heart rate and blood pressure in youth predict an increased susceptibility for anxiety disorders, schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder later in life, reveals an extensive study conducted by the University of Helsinki and the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm.

NASA moon mission shares insights into giant impacts

Oct 28, 2016, at 11:38 pm

Washington, Oct 28 (IBNS): New results from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission are providing insights into the huge impacts that dominated the early history of Earth’s moon and other solid worlds, like Earth, Mars, and the satellites of the outer solar system.

NASA missions harvest a passel of ‘Pumpkin’ stars

Oct 28, 2016, at 11:30 pm

Washington, Oct 28 (IBNS): Astronomers using observations from NASA's Kepler and Swift missions have discovered a batch of rapidly spinning stars that produce X-rays at more than 100 times the peak levels ever seen from the sun.

Mumbai: Care24 announces emergency ambulance service during Diwali

Oct 27, 2016, at 09:27 pm

Mumbai, Oct 27 (IBNS): As the city of dreams gears up to revel in the festivities of Diwali, Care 24, a Mumbai based home healthcare service provider, has announced Emergency Ambulance Service for burn victims.

Alarming rise breast cancer among young women: Over 40 % of patients now below 50

Oct 27, 2016, at 07:19 pm

Kolkata, Oct 27 (IBNS): In what is being seen as an alarming medical trend by doctors, the incidence of breast cancer is rapidly increasing among younger women in India, with more than 40% of the patients now below 50 years of age.

National Ayurveda Day to be celebrated throughout the country tomorrow

Oct 27, 2016, at 05:45 pm

New Delhi, Oct 27 (IBNS): On the occasion of National Ayurveda Day, the Ministry of AYUSH is organizing a one day National Seminar on ‘’Prevention and Control of Diabetes through Ayurveda’’ on Oct 28 at New Delhi.

National Ayurveda Day to be celebrated throughout the country tomorrow

Oct 27, 2016, at 04:48 pm

New Delhi, Oct 27 (IBNS): On the occasion of National Ayurveda Day, the Ministry of AYUSH is organizing a one day National Seminar on ‘’Prevention and Control of Diabetes through Ayurveda’’ on Oct 28 at New Delhi.

NASA's Juno Mission exits safe mode, performs trim maneuver

Oct 27, 2016, at 03:04 pm

Washington, Oct 27 (IBNS): NASA’s Juno spacecraft at Jupiter has left safe mode and has successfully completed a minor burn of its thruster engines in preparation for its next close flyby of Jupiter.

Experts from five continents adopt Dharwad Declaration on Climate Change

Oct 27, 2016, at 05:16 am

Dharwad, Karnataka, Oct 26 (IBNS): Scientists, researchers, academics, policy makers, social activists, NGOs and farmers from 20 countries from five continents, who gathered here to formulate their recommendations for the United Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) to be held in Morocco in November this year, called for putting people first in any climate change negotiations.

Indira Gandhi memorial in Delhi shut down following bird flu scare

Oct 26, 2016, at 05:34 pm

New Delhi, Oct 26 (IBNS): Shakti Sthal, the memorial to former prime minister Indira Gandhi, in New Delhi, was shut down following the death of two more ducks from suspected bird flu, the media reported on Wednesday.

Study: Planet orbiting nearest star could be habitable

Oct 26, 2016, at 03:22 pm

Washington, Oct 26 (IBNS): A rocky extrasolar planet with a mass similar to Earth’s was recently detected around Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to our sun.

GNIDSR-Kolkata, IIT- Kharagpur and IIEST-Shibpur sign MoU for oral healthcare research

Oct 25, 2016, at 07:15 pm

Kolkata, Oct 25 (IBNS): With rise in oral cancer in India and the need to enhance research in oral healthcare, Kolkata-based Guru Nanak Institute of Dental Science & Research (GNIDSR) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with two leading institutes of West Bengal, on Monday.

Kolkata hosts seminar on “Global Advancement In Pharmaceutical Research and Startup”

Oct 23, 2016, at 04:10 am

Kolkata, Oct 22 (IBNS): The international seminar entitled “Global Advancement In Pharmaceutical Research and Startup” was jointly organized by Guru Nanak Institute of Pharmaceutical Science and Technologyunder the flagship of JIS Group and Indian Pharmacy Graduates Association, Bengal branch.

Tata Steel Noamundi Hospital awarded for being the “Best Patient Centric Hospital in Jharkhand”

Oct 23, 2016, at 12:17 am

New Delhi/ Kolkata, Oct 22 (IBNS): Tata Steel Noamundi Hospital has been conferred with the Prime Time Global Healthcare Excellence Awards 2016 under the category of “Best Patient Centric Hospital in Jharkhand”.

Assam: 3.9 earthquake hits Nagaon, no casualty

Oct 22, 2016, at 11:00 pm

Guwahati, Oct 22 (IBNS): An earthquake measuring 3.9 on the Richter Scale hit Nagaon area in Assam on Saturday, officials said.

Gwalior zoo shut down after 15 painted storks die of avian influenza

Oct 22, 2016, at 07:22 pm

Bhopal/Gwalior, Oct 22 (IBNS): The Gwalior Zoo was shut down on Saturday following lab tests confirming that the 15 storks have died from bird flu, according to media reports.

Changing colors in Saturn's north

Oct 22, 2016, at 02:06 pm

Washington, Oct 22 (IBNS): These two natural color images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show the changing appearance of Saturn's north polar region between 2012 and 2016.

Uranus may have two undiscovered moons

Oct 22, 2016, at 01:51 pm

Washington, Oct 22 (IBNS): NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus 30 years ago, but researchers are still making discoveries from the data it gathered then.

Kolkata to host National Robot Championship

Oct 22, 2016, at 02:05 am

Kolkata, Oct 21 (IBNS) World Robot Olympiad India (WRO India) is the biggest Robotics competition in India for students between the age group of 9 to 25 years. National Championship for Robotics is going to be held in Kolkata on Sunday at the Netaji Indoor Stadium from 11 AM to 5 PM.

Sahil Khan steals the show at the BIGMUSCLES Nutrition success party

Oct 21, 2016, at 06:35 pm

Mumbai, Oct 21 (IBNS): BIGMUSCLES Nutrition, a supplement and nutrition company, recently announced actor turned fitness enthusiast Sahil Khan as their brand ambassador.

Cassini sees dramatic seasonal changes on Titan

Oct 21, 2016, at 02:11 pm

Washington, Oct 21 (IBNS): (As southern winter solstice approaches in the Saturn system, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has been revealing dramatic seasonal changes in the atmospheric temperature and composition of Saturn's largest moon, Titan.

NASA, Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum host discussion on solar hazards in exploration

Oct 20, 2016, at 02:57 pm

Washington, Oct 20 (IBNS): Understanding the hazards of space weather on crewed and robotic missions is vital to informing plans for NASA’s Journey to Mars and other missions into our solar system, and beyond.

New Horizons: Possible clouds on Pluto, next target is Reddish

Oct 19, 2016, at 09:44 pm

Washington, Oct 19 (IBNS): Hubble Space Telescope data suggests that 2014 MU69, a small Kuiper Belt object (KBO) about a billion miles (1.6 billion kilometers) beyond Pluto, is as red, if not redder, than Pluto. This is the first hint at the surface properties of the far flung object that New Horizons will survey on Jan 1, 2019.

Historical records may underestimate sea level rise

Oct 19, 2016, at 09:39 pm

Washington, Oct 19 (IBNS): A new NASA and university study using NASA satellite data finds that tide gauges -- the longest and highest-quality records of historical ocean water levels -- may have underestimated the amount of global average sea level rise that occurred during the 20th century.