Articles by Soorya Kiran NN

Why men hit harder by flu virus than women?

In humans it's males who are stronger, as it is in many mammals and birds, but in insects and the water flea it's females, says expert.

Mar 23, 2018

Lower back pain: Old treatment methods useless, harmful, say Australian researchers

With more than 540 million people affected globally, the stifling impact from low back pain has doubled in the last 25 years. Around 25% of Australians suffer from low back pain on any day.

Mar 23, 2018

Singapore starts new facility to detect biological, nuclear substances at ports

Shanmugam doubts social media control on fake news, defends new law

Shanmugam told Facebook representative, "You will not decide whether something is true or false, you will not take down something simply because it is false."

Mar 23, 2018

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Move over bowling, here comes new trendy sport 'axe throwing'

Kick Axe Throwing, the first bar to open in New York City, has become the role model for a nationwide trend of axe throwing, which is catching up with the young the way bowling did in the 20th century.

Mar 22, 2018

Canadian mathematician, Princeton professor Robert Langlands wins Abel Prize for 2018

The award carries 6 million Norwegian kroner ($776,000) and will be presented by Norway's King Harald V at an award ceremony in Oslo on May 22

Mar 21, 2018

Sick traveler in flight spreads infection to others in same row or adjacent row: Study

US researchers from Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology found that an infectious passenger with influenza will most likely transmit infection to passengers in vicinity but not faraway.

Mar 20, 2018

Humans bred with mysterious Denisovan, sister group to Neanderthals, more than once: Study

Humans bred with mysterious species more than once, finds new study based on two pulses of Denisovan populations who might have contributed to ancestry of modern humans in East Asia

Mar 16, 2018

Jeff DeWit appointed as new CFO of NASA

The position of CFO at US space agency NASA has been vacant since the Trump administration took over in January 2017.

Mar 16, 2018

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Russia to send 18th mission to Mars next year, Will it be successful?

Russia has the highest record of launching 17 missions to Mars since 1960 though only two of them were partially successful.

Mar 16, 2018

Einstein's letters, collections to be auctioned in May

Valued at 6,000 to 9,000 British pounds ($8,386 to $12,579), the letters written by Einstein will go under hammer.

Mar 15, 2018

Indians are so good at mathematics, said Hawking once

In his 2001 visit to India, Stephen Hawking met then President K.R. Narayanan at Rashtrapati Bhavan and told him, "Indians are so good at mathematics and physics".

Mar 15, 2018

Famous scientist, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking is dead, aged 76

Famous chair-ridden stephen Hawking died peacefully in his sleep, said his family. He is survived by three children -- Robert, Lucy and Timothy -- from his first marriage to Jane Wilde, and three grandchildren.

Mar 14, 2018

SpaceX founder Elon Musk waves at a press conference following the first launch of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket at the Kennedy Space Center

Mars rocket will fly short test flights next year, ahead of 2022 deadline: Elon Musk

Elon Musk's ambitious Mars colonization mission has some strong supporters around the globe including Tim Peake, the first British astronaut to be sent to the International Space Station (ISS).

Mar 12, 2018

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WHO: Thailand, first Asian country to eliminate mother-to child transmission of HIV

Russian firm offers 3D print of unborn babies for expectant mothers

The 3D models will be printed based on ultrasound photos, said the Russian company Embryo 3D, which is specializing on intricate features of the babies including face, hands, feet and umbilical cord.

Mar 11, 2018

Bengali TV actress Moumita Saha commits suicide, what triggers depression?

Bengali TV actress Moumita Saha, 23, committed suicide on Saturday in her flat that she moved in just two months ago. How to detect yourself if you are undergoing depression and at what level it is can be assessed with this questionnaire.

Mar 10, 2018

NASA's Juno sends 'unprecedented' info on Jupiter's inside weather

The latest image of Jupiter's north polar region sent by the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument aboard Juno spacecraft showed asymmetric and unprecedented polar cyclones over Jupiter

Mar 8, 2018

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Ancient stone inscriptions appear again in China's Yangtze riverbed after 11 years gap

Another place that has submerged such inscriptions is the one where the Pengxi River joins the Yangtze River, belonging to the 20th year of the Jiaqing reign of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).

Mar 8, 2018

Climate Change: Sea level may rise twice as high by 2100, London, New York under threat

NASA study says sea level increase will be anywhere in the range of up to 65 centimeteres in the next 80 years, enough to submerge many coastal cities including New York and London.

Mar 4, 2018

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Like cancer, diabetes has many forms; Reclassified into 5 for now

Since the study cohort was a uniform Scandinavian population, researchers are planning to study Indian and Chinese populations soon.

Mar 2, 2018

Enlightened Facebook ends 'Explore Feed' test

Facebook tested "Explore" feed, which remained a secondary feed over the primary News Feed for its users in six countries, in October 2017 to be ended on March 1, 2018.

Mar 2, 2018

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