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DNA, a long polymer made from nucleotide, is usually considered to have a double helix shape, but a new study showed that when DNA is looked at closely, it is found to have more complicated shape.

The study published in Nature Communications imaged the complex formations of DNA. Researchers of the study, with the help of computer simulations, examined how the shape of DNA wiggles and changes.

Sarah Harris, researcher at University of Leeds and lead author of the study, said when renowned biologist James Watson and physicist Francis Crick explained the DNA double helix, they described just a small part of a real genome. It may be just one turn of the double helix, Harris said. It is about twelve DNA ‘base pairs’, building blocks of DNA.

Climate change may have destructing consequences for the world’s fish. The rise in global temperatures results into ocean acidification and warming that could hurt the diversity and population of fish species on earth.

In a news release, Ivan Nagelkerken, Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow with the University of Adelaide’s Environment Institute, said that this ‘simplification’ of oceans is going to have deep consequences for our existing way of life, mainly for coastal populations and the ones that depend on oceans for food and trade.

Researchers have predicted diversity and population among fish to decrease, but that may not be true for all the species.

According to a new research scientists can find out the body temperatures of ancient dinosaurs by examining the fossilized eggs they left behind. After applying the latest research technique, scientists at UCLA said that ancient eggs have shown that some species were sufficiently warm-blooded to roam around much more quickly as compared to modern gators.

The latest method is based on an in-depth scientific understanding of how the formation of eggshells takes place. The temperature at which the formation of shells of calcium carbonate takes place affects the organization of certain carbon isotopes.

The Hubble Space Telescope spent hours in observing eye Jupiter and took some photographs of the impressive atmosphere and mysterious Red Spot of the largest planetary inhabitant of our solar system.

The photos display ongoing changes to the Red Spot visible from Earth since the starting of modern astronomy. In reality the Red Spot is a long-lived atmospheric storm that has been swirling south of the huge planet's equator for at least 300 years

Hubble’s latest images have given confirmation that the spot has been shrinking due to the weakening of the storm. They showed that it has shrunk by 150 miles in the past year. It has become half of the width it was 100 years ago, when it was nearly 25,000 miles across.

The journal Pediatrics published research has found that a big percentage of children with mental health conditions like ADHD and anxiety are treated by only pediatricians. The researchers have based their findings on the data from 43,235 people aged between 2 and 21 from 2008 to 2011.

After going through the data, the researchers have found primary care doctors play a significant role in diagnosing and treating children’s mental health conditions. As per the researchers from the scientists at MassGeneral Hospital for Children in Boston, close to 35% of children going for mental health care in outpatient setting are being treated by primary care physician and 26% are being seen by psychiatrist and 15% by a psychologist or social worker.

The US Preventive Services Task Force has come up with a new recommendation, which states that before starting treatment for hypertension, people should confirm their high blood pressure with home or ambulatory blood pressure monitoring.

It has been said so as there are many factors that affect blood pressure readings including stress, physical activity and caffeine and nicotine. In fact, some people could also suffer from white-coat hypertension, in which people’s BP increased at the doctor’s office from stress.

All these factors can make it difficult as whether or not a person has high blood pressure. This is the reason that the Task Force has asked to confirm high blood pressure before starting treatment.