Taking a step further towards the advancements in medical science, researchers are quite close to developing a simple, low-cost method to create ‘smart fabrics’ which would be capable of detecting diseases, monitoring heart rates, and other vital signs.

It has been informed by the US and Chinese reseachers Nicholas A. Kotov, Chuanlai Xu and colleagues that electronic textiles, or e-textiles, already are a reality.

When the U.S. senate failed on Thursday to pass a $14 billion rescue package for Detroit's three major car manufacturers, it took on the role of Christmas Grinch for autoworkers.

On Thursday, the senate got only a few ‘yes’ votes short of the 60 needed to block a filibuster on the bailout bill, effectively killing any chance of Congress providing a lifeline to the financially drowning automakers this year.

Following when the news was out, markets across the Asia-Pacific region were down more than 3 percent and Japan's Nikkei average and Hong Kong's Hang Seng were both down by more than 5 percent.

A Japanese study has put forward a fact that high resting heart rates may be linked to the development of obesity and diabetes.

The sympathetic nervous system (SNS), which is basically a network of neurons in the body, regulates the heart rate without conscious thought. Furthermore, it is also believed to control the large intestine, blood vessels, pupil dilation, perspiration and blood pressure.