Washington, Apr 4 : Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have discovered a new way to fight malaria - locking the disease-causing parasite inside the host cells.
Led by Dr. Doron Greenbaum, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology in the Penn School of Medicine, the researchers found that parasites hijack host-cell proteins to ensure their survival and proliferation.
Washington, April 4: Scientists at Alfred University, US, have developed a process for making super-strong glass that is nearly unbreakable, even when dropped from 10 feet high onto a concrete floor.
The process allows the production of “unbreakable” glassware such as wine glasses, canning jars, bottles, tumblers, goblets and mugs at a cost that allows the products to be competitive with normal, un-strengthened glassware.
Washington, April 4 : Paleoanthropologists, working in Africa, have discovered stone blades more than a half-million years old, which pushes the date of the earliest known blades back a remarkable 150,000 years.
Not long ago, researchers thought that blades were so hard to make that they had to be the handiwork of modern humans, who had evolved the mental wherewithal to systematically strike a cobble in the right way to produce blades and not just crude stone flakes.
Berlin, April 4 : A new research has suggested that a sharp bend in the middle of the Hawaii `necklace' of islands is a result of a rapid drift of the region's `hotspot' in a southward direction between 80 and 40 million years ago before it came to a complete halt.
More than 80 undersea volcanoes and a multitude of islands are dotted along the Hawaii-Emperor seamount chain like pearls on a necklace.
A sharp bend in the middle is the only blemish.
This characteristic bend in the trail of the 5000-kilometer long Hawaii-Emperor seamount chain is one of the most striking topographical features of the earth, and is an identifying feature in representations of the Pacific Ocean floor.
Cairo, April 4 : An embalming bed used by ancient Egyptians to prepare the deceased for mummification has been discovered by chance in Luxor, Egypt.
According to a report in Al-Ahram Weekly, a number of wooden plaques that were found inside a jar unearthed in tomb KV63 at the Valley of the Kings on Luxor's west bank have proved to be the remains of a mummification bed, following weeks of restoration work.
Washington, April 4 : An analysis of the inner surface of an 18,000-year-old skull assigned to Homo floresiensis, a species also known as the `hobbit', indicates that this tiny individual possessed a small brain blessed with souped-up intellectual capacities needed for activities such as making stone tools.
The analysis was made by anthropologist Dean Falk of Florida State University in Tallahassee, US.
Washington, Apr 4 : Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have discovered a new way to fight malaria - locking the disease-causing parasite inside the host cells.
Washington, April 4: Scientists at Alfred University, US, have developed a process for making super-strong glass that is nearly unbreakable, even when dropped from 10 feet high onto a concrete floor. 
Washington, April 4 : Paleoanthropologists, working in Africa, have discovered stone blades more than a half-million years old, which pushes the date of the earliest known blades back a remarkable 150,000 years.
Cairo, April 4 : An embalming bed used by ancient Egyptians to prepare the deceased for mummification has been discovered by chance in Luxor, Egypt.
Washington, April 4 : An analysis of the inner surface of an 18,000-year-old skull assigned to Homo floresiensis, a species also known as the `hobbit', indicates that this tiny individual possessed a small brain blessed with souped-up intellectual capacities needed for activities such as making stone tools.
