London, Nov 23: Active parents make for active children, says a study.

Washington, Nov 23: New studies in mice have brought researchers closer to the goal of transplanting adult stem cells to create a new immune system for people with autoimmune or genetic blood disea

Washington, Nov.22 : Chemists from the University of Delaware, in collaboration with a colleague at the University of Wisconsin, have set a new world record for the shortest chemical bond ever reco

London, Nov.22 : A forgotten museum fossil that had been gathering dust for more than a century is actually from a mysterious British dinosaur that represents an entirely new family, scientists hav

Washington, Nov.22 : The high rates of gout reported among Mâori and Pacific Island males could be an ailment inherited over thousands of years to the time when Polynesia and Melanesia were being colonized from South East Asia.

According to Dr. Hallie Buckley, a biological anthropologist working for the University of Otago, and colleagues from the Australian National University and CNRS in Paris, Pacific Island males suffered from possible gouty arthritis.

Dr. Buckley and her other colleagues based their findings on analysis of skeletons raised from a 3,000-year-old cemetery in Vanuatu.

Her paper focussed on the health status of the Lapita people — so-called because of their distinctive decorated pottery known as the Lapita style

Washington, Nov.22 : China will attempt its first space walk during the nation's third crewed flight next year, according to local newspaper reports.