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The Framingham Heart Study has linked daily sugary beverage consumption to increased visceral fat. People who consume sugar-sweetened beverages like soda regularly could be at risk of 27% increase in visceral adipose tissue over time, the study published Monday in journal Circulation warned.

A number of previous studies have found association between obesity and sugar-sweetened beverages, said Dr. Caroline S. Fox, lead author of the new study and former investigator at the Framingham Heart Study of the National Heart. The study considered body fat distribution, the researcher added.

A community-based study has linked use of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) regularly to the risk of chronic kidney disease. But study researchers said additional researches are required to know if the drugs really lead to kidney disease and how.

The study, which included over 10,000 adult individuals, considered use of PPI and found approximately 20% to 50% risk for developing chronic kidney disease. In a replication cohort, the drug’s use was linked to increased risk for the disease, while taking two dosages a day was associated with a higher risk of developing chronic kidney disease, said Morgan Erika Grams, a researcher from Johns Hopkins University.

In an announcement on Monday, officials said that one of the world’s most powerful computers dedicated to weather, climate change and other earth science study is going to be replaced next year by an even faster machine.

Presently, the Yellowstone supercomputer in Wyoming is among the 60 fastest in the world. The National Center for Atmospheric Research said that the new supercomputer, to be dubbed Cheyenne, is going to be at least 2 1/2 times more powerful,

Cheyenne can do 5.3 quadrillion calculations, or petaflops, in a second. It will be nearly 100,000 times faster compared to a typical home computer. The center said that the speed gives extraordinary detail in predicting climate-change, such as regional modeling of effects.

Thanks to a technological breakthrough that traditional light bulbs, believed to be going towards oblivion, could get a reprieve.

Incandescent lighting and its warm, known glow is well over a hundred years old, still surviving in homes worldwide. However, the scenario is changing at a quite fast pace as regulations focusing at improving energy efficiency have been planning to phase out the old bulbs to go for more efficient compact fluorescent bulbs (CFLs) and latest light-emitting diode bulbs (LEDs).

A claim by physicists that they have finally observed gravitational waves, an elusive phenomena in the fabric of spacetime predicted by Albert Einstein a century ago, has become a hot topic for debate in the social media. The excited whispers had their basis in the recently upgraded detector at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO).

The recent sensitivity upgrade of the detector, which is split between two locations in Louisiana and Washington, was the main reason why the physicists hoped that they would be able to detect waves and, thus, herald a new era of gravitational wave astronomy.

And in case the gravitational waves have been discovered in reality, the development could be a great deal for physics, cosmology and our understanding of the universe.

A cosmic formation path of the Milky Way galaxy has been formulated by scientists. The chart was prepared by a new method to amalgamate information gathered from the ongoing Sloan Digital Sky Survey and an innovative technique to calculate the age of stars. The oldest-ever star and the youngest-ever galaxy have both been discovered by astronomers. The two discoveries can be instrumental in providing an insight into how everything originated.