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According to experts, poker-faced individuals who stay emotionally guarded no matter what circumstance they confront have trouble making friends.

According to reports, psychologists discovered that pupils who were best at inhibiting their sentiments also were the ones who experienced the hardest time making pals.

"An individual who responds to the college transition by being emotionally guarded in the first few days" would probably miss chances for friendship, wrote the authors of that study, published last year.

Researchers have revealed that the psychological and physiological condition of people with tension headache betters within 24 hours after getting a 30-minute massage.

Researcher Cristina Toro Velasco and Professor Manuel Arroyo Morales stated that a 30-minute massage on cervical trigger points amends autonomic nervous system regulation in these patients.

Likewise, sufferers report an apparent relief from symptoms in 24 hours after kneading.

Researchers at Queen's University have revealed that the escalation of melanoma, one of the deathliest forms of skin cancer, can be decelerated when a little known gene known as MicroRNA 193b is added.

Victor Tron, head of pathology and molecular medicine, concentrated on miR-193b when he found that it was lacking in melanoma tumors and because there were less researches conducted about the gene.

The miRNA-193b gene is detected in people's DNA and was unidentified until 10 years back.

A new research has suggested that living in an environment rich with physical, mental and social motivation might by itself control growth of cancer.

The animal research, led by researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute, also showed that how this effect occurs and that it might have curative use.

The researchers discovered that an enriched environment activates a nervous-system pathway through which the brain talks to fat tissue.

Police officials seized a plastic bag with explosive materials from a private bus going to Payyannur from Kozhikode at Edakkad, about 15 km from Kannur this morning.

Around 300 detonators and 96 metres of fuse wire were found during the raid following a warning over a phone call to Edakkad police, Edakkad Sub Inspector of Police Sunil Kumar said.

The explosives were stacked inside the plastic bag that was kept under the back seat of the bus.

But, no one was taken into detention, police added.