Water, a little bleach, and a plastic bottle are all Filipino entrepreneur Illac Diaz needs to light up the world.…
Government Plans Blanket Ban on Child Labour
The central government is contemplating a blanket ban on child labour, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal informed the Rajya…
Ancient Dog Skull Shows Early Pet Domestication
It took 33,000 years, but one Russian dog is finally having its day. The fossilized remains of a canine found…
Teenager can use fork for first time after being fitted with hi-tech hand
A teenager who lost her fingers to septicaemia as a toddler has been able to brush her teeth for the…
3 years more life for 15 minutes’ exercise
Calling all couch potatoes. You can live an extra three years if you exercise for just 15 minutes a day…
In-Car Avatar Sensitive To Driver’s Needs
Next time the warning lights on your car’s dash send you into a tizzy and the automotive gobbledygook in the…
Sniffer dogs detect lung cancer
Sniffer dogs can be used to reliably detect lung cancer, according to researchers in Germany. Writing in the European Respiratory…
9 New Species Found
Boasting “crazy” evolutionary adaptations, a new group of so-called fanged frogs—cousins of this Luzon fanged frog (file picture)—has been discovered…
There Are Only 14 Different Kinds Of Noses
How many different shapes of human noses are there? Ten? Fifty? Hundreds? The correct answer is 14, according to Abraham…
New drug could cure nearly any viral infection
Most bacterial infections can be treated with antibiotics such as penicillin, discovered decades ago. However, such drugs are useless against…