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A Canadian scientist has said that conventional wisdom that holds routine lifting may cause spinal disc degeneration and should be avoided, is mistaken.

Tapio Videman of the University of Alberta in Edmonton disputes the common perception physical loading such as frequent lifting cause discs in the spine to degenerate.

According to Videman, disk degeneration is one of the chief causes of back pain.

U. S. researchers have found that low levels of vitamin D have been linked to increased asthma symptoms and greater use of medication among children.

According to U. S. researchers the use of a routine kidney test done by pediatricians for decades should be discontinued.

The screening urine dipstick to diagnose chronic kidney disease in healthy children is not cost effective, researchers at Pennsylvania State College of Medicine in Hershey have found.

They have also found that the cost of finding one case of diagnosed chronic kidney disease per 800 screening tests came to $2,997.50.

The Bamboo at the Nehru Zoological Park are flowering and this has caused concerns about the people as it a widely help belief that this phenomenon is followed by severe drought and famine.

"There was bamboo flowering at some place in the 40-acre spread Lion Safari Park in the Zoo. We immediately ordered the bushes to cut to prevent the increase of rodent population associated with it," says Zoo park director Gopal Reddy.

Environmental experts are warning that Global Warming could cause more volcanoes, earthquakes, landslides and tsunamis and other geological events.

A research paper published in the Royal Society says that the rising temperature might cause melting of ice, rise in sea level, heavy storms and rainfall and the earth’s crust could be affected due to these changes. Experts say that minor changes in temperatures could cause earthquakes and tsunamis.

A team of scientists have claimed that they have developed a brain implant that matches to the brain surface and melts into the place.

Researcher David Kaplan who is the biomedical engineering at Tufts University says that the implant developed has ultra-thin electrode which are affixed to the film which is made from highly refined liquid silk.

He explained that the implant is thin enough to follow the folds and curves of a human brain however is at the same time is strong enough to allow complex electronic circuitry to be embedded on it.