Primitive hunter-gatherers slept as little as modern people suffering from insomnia, artificial light and night-time entertainment. US scientists have disproved the myth that the "natural" state of a person is retiring at sunset and get up at dawn. A study on the subject is published in the journal...

The fight to find a cure and a vaccine for the Ebola virus is gaining speed as a Chinese firm is all set to mass produce Ebola virus vaccines.   A Chinese biotech firm, Tianjin CanSino Biotechnology Inc. is set to invest $315.14 million to create a facility in Tianjin city in the north...

Today, Apple announced that new researches into treatment of autism, epilepsy and melanoma will be conducted using the platform ResearchKit. Software platform ResearchKit turns the iPhone into a tool for medical research, helping doctors, scientists and other researchers often and more accurately...

Tracing out vulnerabilities in an operating system like Android or even in sim cards, hackers have been known to use all manner of remote access tools to break into mobile phones. However it is not common practice that hackers try and get inside the network infrastructure that route these calls...

Among numerous bacteria, viruses and other micro-organisms living in human body, there are some which can prevent asthma. Scientists experimenting with bacteria that live in the human body reported to the “Science Translational Medicine” that in a case study of “319 children” they exhibited “at...

The growing threat of El Nino would possibly leave more than four million people across the Pacific without enough food or clean water.   Indications of it came when two dozen people have already died from hunger and drinking contaminated water in drought-stricken Papua New Guinea.  ...

Come January of next year, the attempts to lessen the symptoms of incurable brittle bone disease through the injection of foetal stem cells into babies while they are still in the womb is to begin in the first of its kind clinical trial.   The stem cells for the trial would come from...

An assessment of the value of natural assets has found that the world c oral reefs are worth £6 trillion a year in services they provide for people - almost four times as much as the UK economy.   Bees contributed £106 billion to the world economy in pollinating crops, and that vultures were...

Mealworms’ plastic diet can be a potential solution to plastic landfills, whereby the so far believed “non-biodegradable” plastics get digested in mealworms’ guts. Recently, the plastic pollutants have been a cause of worry as it is difficult to dispose of them. However, finally, there seems to be...