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What about a material that is capable of supporting mass 1,000 times more than its own mass? And what more, it would bend or change shape with the mere warmth from a human hand. Researchers from the University of Rochester have developed this new polymer which, they claim, has traits that could make it "uniquely useful" in a wide range of fields, including medical science.

The findings of this study have been published in the Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics.

Decades after the departure of genius theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, scientists said he was right about gravitational waves. Physicists surprised science community on Thursday by announcing that they have successfully detected the ripples in spacetime that Einstein first predicted a century ago.

Gravitational waves have been a trending topic in science community since the German-born mentioned them in his theory of general relativity, but they became talk of the town last year when it was rumored that a team of astrophysicists has detected the waves. The astrophysicist team used the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) and discovered a gravitational wave that it believed was generated due to a collision between two black holes far from earth.

The past years of tobacco prize hikes had its positive effects on cutting the amount of smokers, which is happy to hear about. There is nothing wrong in the intentions of people who are seeking more prize hikes, for making New Zealand smokefree by 2025. However, to think of New Zealand as smokefree in 2025 is no less than a huge illusion.

Drugs will be used as long as there will be humans, and for the last couple of hundred years, tobacco has been among those drugs. It is sad that more tobacco price hikes could cause some serious unnecessary and unhealthy side effects.

‘Illegalization’ of tobacco has been tried but, prohibition or exorbitant price hikes have always resulted into illegal markets. Sale of illegal tobacco is practiced on the black market in New Zealand.

Yet another attempt by US President Barack Obama to improve the federal deficit by slashing the budget for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) has met with resistance from the House representatives.

On Tuesday, the US President tried to cut the budget for the GLRI by $50 million (from $300 million to $250 million) even as House representatives demanded that money be allowed to flow for the project. This was probably President Obama’s last bid before his tenure ends, in a series of several such attempts over the past two years.

The long struggle to survive fight against diabetes is likely to come to an end when an invention of an artificial pancreas will become reality. The Harvard University researchers are trying to introduce automating diabetic care through artificial pancreas.

The team of researchers has been working on the project for more than two decades. Frank Doyle, Dean of the Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, predicts that the researchers’ attempt to make a fully functional automated system for diabetes would get success in about five years. Earlier, experiment on mice has already proved successful.

Assisted suicide or euthanasia is legalized in many countries. It is legal for people suffering from unbearable and untreatable illnesses. A study was performed to examine most of deaths of psychiatric patients caused by euthanasia from 2011 to mid-2014 in the Netherlands, in which doctors participated to help people die. There were 37 in 66 cases where patients refused to adopt treatments that would have helped and instead went for assisted death.

Presently, countries such as Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Canada and a few US states- Oregon, Vermont, Montana, Washington and California- have legalized the euthanasia.