Top Indian scientists have stressed on the urgent need to design a well-thought-out strategy to develop science and make it economically competitive to catch up with the fast surging China.

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Most athletes would swear by the pain-relieving, muscle recovery-promoting benefits of massaging, which has now been validated by scientific evidence.

On the cellular level, massage reduces...

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief K Radhakrishnan on Monday said that there has been no vendetta behind blacklisting his predecessor G Madhavan Nair and three other scientists in...

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chief K Radhakrishnan on Monday said that he had nothing personal against his predecessor, G Madhavan Nair, who has been indicted along with three other...

Michael Marletta The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla began the new year with a new president who is facing an old and daunting problem -- raising money.Michael Marletta must help Scripps...

After years of drilling, Russian scientists have finally managed to reach down to reveal a unique sub-glacial lake. The scientists drilled 12,362 feet to reach the sub-glacial Antarctic lake,...

A 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck the Philippines on Monday morning, killing at least 13 people and leaving dozens trapped under houses and buildings. Governor Roel Demago said that as many as 30...

Listen carefully for the sound of a katydid that lived 165 million years ago, re-created after studying the structure of its fossilized wings. The image shows the artistic reconstruction of a...

Several Russian news outlets are reporting that Russian scientists have successfully drilled to Antarctica's Lake Vostok, a massive liquid lake cut off from daylight for 14 million years and...

Like their cavemen ancestors who fought outsiders for land and potential mates, the modern guy still holds such prejudices against "outgroups," new research shows. Whereas men's...

The sky is not the limit for daredevil Felix Baumgartner, who is training to skydive from the stratosphere this summer.The 42-year-old plans to leap from a height of roughly 36 kilometres above New...

Artist's concept of the four tails of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy (orange clump on left of the image) orbiting the Milky Way. The bright yellow circle to the right of the Milky Way's...

Scientists had previously theorized that gravitational interactions among multiple planets orbiting a star can sometimes cause a world to get ejected from its system, leaving the rogue planet to...

rnrnIvan Konstantinov and colleagues at the Russia-based group Visual Science drew on existing scientific information to depict the 3D structure of the Ebola virus, responsible for fatal outbreaks of...

-; A University of Minnesota-led research team has proposed a mechanism for the control of whether embryonic stem cells continue to proliferate and stay stem cells, or differentiate into adult cells...

-; Several periods of field work during 2008 have led to the discovery of a new species of bamboo-feeding plant lice in Costa Rica's high-altitude region "Cerro de la Muerte." The...

-; Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags are an essential component of modern shopping, logistics, warehouse, and stock control for toll roads, casino chips and much more. They provide a simple...

-; Coronary patients with low levels of an immune system antibody called anti-PC, which neutralises parts of the 'bad' cholesterol, run a greater risk of suffering complications following...

-; Cultural differences between the West and East are well documented, but a study shows that concrete differences also exist in how British and Chinese people recognise people and the world around...

-; The great paradox of global health efforts is that regions of the world most plagued by poverty, poor infrastructure and rampant disease are often the most difficult to support. Now, scientists...

Scott Moffat, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology and gerontology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Institute of Gerontology at WSU, said studies have demonstrated reliable...

Most sounds vanish forever after a few seconds, but not the calls of a Jurassic katydid. After examining the sound-making structures on its exceptionally preserved fossil wings, biologists have...

Carlos Duarte of the University of Western Australia in Perth sequenced the DNA of Posidonia oceanica at 40 sites spanning 3500 kilometres of seafloor, from Spain to Cyprus. One patch off the island...

In this Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011 file photo, the Zenit-2SB rocket with the Phobos-Ground probe blasts off from its launch pad at the Cosmodrome Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Some of the recent failures of...

Thousands of parents scrambled to make alternative plans after 120 daycares in greater Montreal and central Quebec were hit by walkouts Monday morning....

Canadian military police have charged an officer with disgraceful conduct and sexual offences against two cadets in B.C. Capt. Daniel Moriarty, an instructor at the Cadet Instructors Cadre, is...

Ontario locomotive plant shuts down TORONTO - Ontario's unfriendly business climate and high energy prices drove Caterpillar to Indiana, Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak said Monday. ...

Suspected U.S. drone kills militants in Pakistan The CIA's military drones have targeted rescue workers and mourners, an investigative team of U.K. journalists reports. "Drones have not...

Planned parenthood group not defunded, despite reports OTTAWA - A backbench Tory MP who's proposed a parliamentary committee to discuss when life begins - at conception or birth - was shot down...

For the last several years, Tim Samaras has led TWISTEX - Tactical Weather Instrument Sampling in/near Tornadoes Experiments - one of three pursuit teams on Discovery Channel's "Storm...

These common North American mystery birds are strikingly different in size despite having the same colours and patterns. Why? Are these parent birds with one of their chicks? Are they different...

Chemistry provides a way to communicate certain messages to birds. Yukio Hirose figured this out after he noticed that something, some mysterious who-knows-what, had consistently attracted the...

The graph shows the percentage of Americans who met their partners online as a function of the year they met. It's based on a U.S. nationally representative sample of 3,009 partnered...

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failure of the Phobos-Grunt probe in January, along with a few failed missions in 2011--but agency chief Vladimir Popovkin announced on Thursday a program that he hopes will reinvigorate the agency:...

science fiction author Gene Wolfe remembers exactly when it happened, when he knew he was a writer.Living in Ohio with his wife, Rosemary, and four children, he had already sold a handful of short...

Restaurant operator GMRI Inc. has requested $200,000 in incentives from Birmingham to open a new restaurant in The Summit shopping center. Seasons 52, a grill and wine bar with locations across the...

The American space agency looks set to pull the plug on its joint missions to Mars with the European Space Agency. Nasa has told Esa it is now highly unlikely it will be able to contribute to the...

A clan chief has accused ministers and Scottish Natural Heritage of ignoring concerns about a proposed marine special area of conservation (SAC). The Sound of Barra SAC would give protection to...

One area of intensive research at the nanoscale is the creation of electrically conductive meshes made of metal nanowires. Promising exceptional electrical throughput, low cost and easy processing,...

-; In one year alone, over 4,500 children in the United States were hospitalized due to child abuse, and 300 of them died of their injuries, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in a new study....

-; Programs that support parents during their child's early years hold promise for obesity prevention, according to a new study in the online February 6 issue...

-; It may sound like something from a TV medical drama, but the incidence of surgeons leaving something behind in the body is very real at hospitals across the...

launch of a new category on The Pirate Bay, the controversial file-sharing site known for making copyright material freely available. Alongside music, films and e-books, the site offers...

Love is impossible to pinpoint in a brain scan. It’s much more complex than recognizing a face (which has a couple of dedicated spots on the brain) or feeling pain (which lights up a few areas...

OTTAWA - A 15-year-old boy has died after going into cardiac arrest at a hockey arena Sunday night. The boy collapsed on the bench at the arena in Carp, about 35 km west of the city, at about 6:20...

Dustin Paxton. (Handout Photo) WINNIPEG - The trial of Dustin Paxton is expected to end Monday. Paxton is charged with the months-long beating, starving and torture of his friend and roommate, in...

(Shutterstock) An Indiana woman is accused of leaving her obese sister in a chair for three weeks, to decompose and die. Vickie Holdcraft, 58, a worker for the county health department, was indicted...

Sarah Obama sustained minor injuries in a car crash in Kenya on the weekend. (NTV Kenya Screengrab) President Barack Obama's grandmother sustained minor injuries in a car crash in Kenya on the...