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Old-fashioned toys healthier for kids than expensive electronic gizmos

Washington, Nov24 : Psychologists at the Temple University have revealed that old fashioned toys allow children to experiment with their imagination and creativity, thus proving much healthier for

Scientists come closer to unravelling HIV-1 evolution

Washington, November 24 : A study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) has brought unravelling the evolution of HIV-1 closer, by revealing that an essential component of

Prenatal arsenic exposure makes newborns prone to cancer

Washington, Nov 23: A recent study conducted at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) revealed that prenatal arsenic exposure in newborns may lead to them developing cancer in later life.

Delaware researchers set new chemical world record

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

Early Pacific people often suffered from gout: Study

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

Observing dark energy has probably spelt the end of the universe, say experts

Washington, Nov.22 : A pair of physicists at the Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, has claimed that the observation of dark energy, thought to be speeding up cosmic expansion, mig

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