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Aug 14, 2012 06:46 AM EDT

Dark Chocolate Improves Brain Function

A team at the University of Nottingham has discovered that eating chocolate could help to sharpen up the mind and give a short-term boost to cognitive skills.

Aug 14, 2012 06:43 AM EDT

Ten New Gene Regions Linked to Type 2 Diabetes

A new study that is being published in the journal Nature Genetics have identified 10 new regions of DNA linked to type 2 diabetes, increasing the number of genes and gene regions associated with the disease to more than 60.

Aug 13, 2012 06:57 AM EDT

Climate Change has Deadly Effect on Amphibian World

According to a latest discovery that is being published in the Monday's Journal Nature Climate Change, climate change makes frogs more susceptible to deadly diseases.

Aug 13, 2012 06:56 AM EDT

Google Earth Tracks Lost Pyramids

Archaeologists using the Google Earth claimed to have discovered two clustered structures in Egypt that may include undiscovered pyramid. They noticed these structures have a large heap almost three times the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Aug 13, 2012 06:53 AM EDT

IBM Scientists "Waltz" Closer to Using Spintronics in Computing

Researchers from IBM Research and the university ETH, both based in Zurich have revealed their first ever direct mapping of information of a persistent spin helix in a semiconductor with the aim of using electron spins for storing, transporting and processing information.

Aug 13, 2012 06:49 AM EDT

Junk Food Laws May Help to Arrest Childhood Obesity: Study

New study published in the August issue of Pediatrics sought to determine whether the state laws associated with the regulation of nutrition content had a relationship with lower adolescent weight gain.

Aug 13, 2012 06:47 AM EDT

Stress and Depression Can Shrink the Brain

New team of researchers led by Yale scientists has discovered major depression or chronic stress can cause the loss of brain volume, a condition that contributes to both emotional and cognitive impairment.

Aug 12, 2012 12:40 PM EDT

Sun is Surrounded by Heaps of Dark Matter

Recently astronomers at the University of Zurich and the ETH ZÃ¼rich, together with other international researchers, have found large amounts of invisible dark matter near the Sun.

Aug 12, 2012 12:34 PM EDT

NASA Begins New Mission to Study Earthâ€™s Radiation Belt

NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) mission is set to send two spacecraft into harsh environment of our planet's radiation belt. They are set to launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket Aug. 23. The 20-minute launch window for the twin probes at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's ...

Aug 12, 2012 05:51 AM EDT

Science Teachers Destabilizing Environment

A survey presented in Portland at the national meeting of the Ecological Society of America claims that one out of the four teachers in the United States and Canada use live animals as part of their science curriculum and release them into the wild after classroom teaching.

Aug 12, 2012 05:49 AM EDT

Autonomous Robotic Plane Flies Indoors

But the team of talented MIT's Robust Robotics Group has modulated themselves for an even tougher challenge of developing autonomous-control algorithms for the indoor flight of GPS-denied airplanes. At the 2011 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), a team of researchers from th...

Aug 12, 2012 05:47 AM EDT

New Species Discovered from Flickr Images

An entomologist randomly viewing the images noted the distinct pattern of veins in the insectâ€™s wings, which sport black markings and two white spots that soon struck to realization that no such specie existed till date.