Posts Tagged ‘Ontario’

Washington, April 2 (ANI): A scientist has identified an exoplanet that went undetected in Hubble images taken in 1998. The scientist, David Lafreniere of the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, detected the planet that was hidden in Hubble images taken with the telescope's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) in 1998. The planet, estimated to be at least seven times Jupiter's mass, was originally discovered in ... Full story

Washington, Mar 18 (ANI): Just five minutes of sustained physical activity can help prevent childhood obesity, according to a study. Researchers from Queen's University in Ontario, Canada, have revealed that several bursts of exercise that last five minutes or more may be better for preventing childhood obesity than ... Full story

Ontario (Canada), Mar.13 (ANI): At least 17 people, including 16 offshore oil rig workers, are feared dead after their helicopter fell in to the frigid waters of the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday. According to a Globe and Mail report, the helicopter had flown out of St. John's, and was hit by mechanical problems half-an-hour later above the choppy seas of the North Atlantic. One person was ... Full story

Washington, Mar 10 (ANI): Researchers from University of Toronto have suggested a new minimal invasive therapy for relieving the pain of herniated disks. The minimally invasive interventional radiology treatment uses oxygen/ozone to relieve the chronic pain of herniated disks. "Having a herniated disk can affect how you perform everyday activities and can cause severe pain that influences almost everything you do; however, you don't have to undergo ... Full story

Washington, Mar 2 (ANI): A new study has found that more than 20 pct of the sexual assaults are drug-facilitated. Researchers from Women's College Research Institute in Toronto and the Ontario Network of Sexual Assault/Domestic Violence Treatment Centres studied at least 882 victims of sexual assaults. They found that ... Full story

London, Feb 25 (ANI): In a new study, it has been suggested that climate change might supercharge plant growth, not just because temperatures will be warmer, but because temperatures will be more variable. According to a report in Discovery News, the research indicated that as deeply frozen winters give way to more cycles of freezing and thawing, certain plants will become more productive. This is the ... Full story

London, Feb 20 (ANI): Scientists have, for the first time, detected a space rock ahead of a collision with Earth, watched it streak through the atmosphere, and then recovered pieces of it. An analysis of the meteorites could shed light on conditions in the early solar system more than 4 billion years ago. When the asteroid, called 2008 ... Full story