Stockholm: Sweden’s Tomas Lindahl, American Paul Modrich and US-Turkish scientist Aziz Sancar won the Nobel Prize in chemistry today for “mechanistic studies of DNA repair.... Read more

Washington: A nutrient-rich, balanced diet is beneficial to corals during stressful thermal events, a new study has found. The research led by scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rose... Read more

San Francisco: Technology titans Microsoft and Google have announced that they have agreed to end all patent infringement litigation against each other. Legal battles between the companies i... Read more

Washington: Portabella mushrooms may be key to making efficient and longer-lasting batteries that could power cellphones and electric vehicles, scientists say. Researchers at the University... Read more

Washington: Scientists have found that activating a specific family of proteins can stop the spread of the most lethal and aggressive brain cancer. Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most... Read more

Melbourne: NASA has teamed up with a Brooklyn-based company to create the first ever space shotgun that will test the strength of asteroids and other space rocks to determine if they are stu... Read more

Washington: Maternal bereavement – the death of a parent, sibling, or previously born child – within six months before conception may be linked to an elevated infant death rate,... Read more

Tokyo: Daytime sleepiness and taking hour-long naps during the day are both associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes, a new study has warned. In the study, researchers led by Tom... Read more