Breastfeeding has unplanned benefits like protecting nursing mothers from rheumatoid arthritis, according to a new study.

Scientists have hitherto assumed that birds see what we see. But apparently they do not - human sight might not be as good as that of birds.

According to the country's first bidi monograph, for every cigarette, eight bidis are sold in India. And what's worse, nearly 2.3% children, aged 13-15 years, have taken to it.

Soon, shoppers would not be running around from one shop to another in search of gadgets of their choice, for the experts believe that they would soon grow their own gadgets.

In recent years, a pseudoscience has emerged around the theory that left-partedness signals leadership potential.

Ever heard of “occupational asthma”? That's asthma caused by exposure to allergens present in the average office - and a new study says it's on the rise.

Scientists
have discovered human ageing gene in fruit flies that would give a fast and
effective way to investigate important aspects of human ageing.

Recent studies ahve claimed that vitamin D deficiency is leading to chronic health problems such as cancer and heart ailment.

The Prague zoo has launched a test programme to save the Indian crocodile-like gharial from the brink of extinction with a million-dollar pavilion for the animals to bask, and hopefully reproduce, in.

During Columbia's fateful mission, the drive had been used to store data from a scientific experiment on the properties of liquid xenon.