Posts Tagged ‘component’

Washington, Apr 2 (ANI): Portuguese researchers have identified a vital component of olive oil that gives greatest protection from heart attack and stroke. Lead researcher Fatima Paiva-Martins from University of Porto has discovered an antioxidant called DHPEA-EDA that protects red blood cells from damage more than any other part of olive oil. "These findings provide the scientific basis for the clear health benefits that have been seen ... Full story

London, Mar 30 (ANI): Liquorice, a confectionery flavoured with the extract of the roots of the liquorice plant, may help prevent bowel cancer, a new study has found. Bowel cancer is the third most common type after breast and lung cancers. In the study, which was carried out by researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Centre in Nashville, Tennessee, scientists targeted ... Full story

Melbourne - A row was looming ahead of the start of the Formula One season with leading teams questioning the legality of the bodywork of three of their rivals including newcomers Brawn GP. A rift appeared to open Wednesday ahead of Sunday's Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne, with Red Bull saying it would lodge a protest if the Brawn GP, Williams and Toyota cars were ... Full story

Washington, Mar 18 (ANI): Contrary to widely held beliefs, romantic love can last a lifetime and lead to happier, healthier relationships, a new study has found. "Many believe that romantic love is the same as passionate love," said lead researcher Bianca P. Acevedo, PhD, then at Stony Brook University (currently at University of California, Santa Barbara). "It isn't. Romantic love has the intensity, engagement and ... Full story

Washington, Mar 13 (ANI): Do you think that your newly bought lingerie doesn't fit you well, or isn't really sexier enough? Well, the solution to the problem lies in mathematics, according to Japanese researchers.he researchers have built a computerized 3D model of the female trunk that could help lingerie and other clothes designers make more sensuous, comfortable, and better fitting product ranges. Kensuke Nakamura of ... Full story

Washington, March 12 (ANI): NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter has rebooted successfully, following commands to shut down and restart, a strategy by its engineers to clear any memory flaws accumulated in more than five years since Odyssey's last reboot. The procedure also restored Odyssey's onboard set of backup systems, called the spacecraft's "B side," allowing its use in the future when necessary. "For nearly two years, we have ... Full story

Washington, March 12 (ANI): Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US have for the first time come up with a way to produce high-resolution 'Maps of Science', depicting the virtual trails that scientists leave behind while retrieving information from online services. "This research will be a crucial component of future efforts to study and predict scientific innovation, as well novel methods to determine the ... Full story

Washington, Mar 10 (ANI): Elderly women with metabolic syndrome are at an increased risk of cognitive over a four-year period, says a new study. The researchers led by Dr Kristine Yaffe, from University of California, San Francisco, and the San Francisco Veterans' Affairs Medical Centre looked at 4,895 older women with an average age 66.2, who did not have cognitive impairment at the beginning of the ... Full story

Pasadena, Mar 4 (ANI/Business Wire India): eSolar, a producer of modular, scalable solar thermal power plants, announced an exclusive licensing agreement with the ACME Group, a leader in the field of energy, environmental and telecommunications infrastructure solutions in India, to build up to 1,000 MW of solar thermal power plants over the next ten years. eSolar names ACME as a master licensee of its modular, ... Full story

Washington, Feb 27 (ANI): Every one of us is different - even when it comes to spit. That's the conclusion of a new study which says more than 600 microbe species live in our saliva. According to the Genome Research study, few of these bacteria are shared from person to person.he human body harbors ten times more bacterial cells than human ... Full story

New Delhi, Feb 27 (ANI): Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar today said that information technology has to play a major role in the expansion of agriculture in the country. Addressing the national seminar on Agriculture Extension here, Pawar said information technology is a critical component for revitalizing national agricultural system. Pawar's speech, which ... Full story

London, February 25 (ANI): Two American studies suggest that some people start shaking atop skyscrapers, or feel their knees buckle going over bridges, because they significantly overestimate vertical distances. The researchers behind the study say that the stronger the fear, the bigger the error would be. Russell Jackson, a cognitive psychologist at California State University in San Marcos who led one of the studies, says that ... Full story

Dubai, Feb. 22 (ANI): Saudi Arabia's prominent scholar Sheikh Mohamed Al-Najim has said those who use alcohol-based bio-fuels in their cars could be committing a 'sin'. Najimi is a member of the Islamic Fiqh Academy that studies Islamic jurisprudence for the Organization of the Islamic Conference. OIC is an international group with a permanent delegation to the United Nations. Najim directed his warning to Saudi youths ... Full story

Washington, Feb 21 (ANI): 'Brain Storming' sessions often see people talking of a variety of topics, but how a person's brain quickly processes the meaning and understands what other people are saying at the same time is an ability that has always intrigued researchers. Psychologist Jos J.A. Van Berkum from the Max Planck Institute in The Netherlands has now described how the brain turn seemingly random ... Full story

Washington, Feb 20 (ANI): A new research has shown that for the countless billions of tiny microbes, large-scale evolution was completed 2.5 billion years ago, and they played a key role in developing modern nitrogen cycle. "For microbes, it appears that almost all of their major evolution took place before ... Full story

Washington, February 20 (ANI): Scientists in America have come up with a new form of ultrasound that may lead to early prediction of bone loss, a hallmark of osteoporosis. Dr. Yi-Xian Qin, Director of the Orthopaedic Bioengineering Research Laboratory at Stony Brook University, has revealed that the new technology, called Scanning Confocal Acoustic Navigation (SCAN), works by assessing multiple parameters of hard tissue like bone. The researcher, ... Full story

Washington, Feb 20 (ANI): NASA's Kepler spacecraft is all set to be moved to the launch pad and will soon begin a journey to search for worlds that could potentially host life. Kepler is scheduled to blast into space from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, aboard a Delta II rocket on March 5. It is ... Full story

Johannesburg, Feb.19 (ANI): Having waited for four years to be eligible to play for South Africa, Pakistan-born leg-spinner Imran Tahir is likely to make his debut for the national side sooner than later. Lahorite Tahir is close to acquiring South African citizenship and is married to a South African woman. He's a prodigious turner of the ball, and national team coach Micky Arthur, admits that wrist spin ... Full story

London, February 16 (ANI): Rutgers University researchers in New Jersey, US, say that they have created a gene-silencing platform, which may enable the development and discovery of a new class of drugs to treat a wide array of diseases. The researchers have revealed that critical to the technology is the approach they specifically took to target RNA biosynthesis. Research leader Samuel Gunderson, an associate professor in ... Full story

Washington, Feb 16 (ANI): A scientist has said that the rapid urbanization of the world presents a daunting engineering challenge in the future, as the stability and livability of the urban regions is going to depend more than ever on advances in public-infrastructure engineering. "The accelerating urbanization of the species is rapidly increasing the complexity of the urban environment for humanity as a whole," said Brad ... Full story