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How brain purposefully ignores distractions
Washington, Feb 5:
A study has revealed that our brain purposefully ignores less important things for us to concentrate on something more crucial.
"This is about the mechanisms the brain is using to block out distracting things in…
Asked Jayanthi Natarajan to protect environment: Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi, Feb 4:
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Wednesday said he asked the then environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan to protect the environment and the tribals.
He accepted he advised Natarajan on the work of her ministry.…
Gravitational waves from early universe remain elusive
Washington, Feb 4:
Despite earlier reports of a possible detection, joint data analysis by the European Space Agency's Planck space mission and ground-based experiment BICEP2 has found no conclusive evidence of gravitational waves from…
Check-recheck before clicking PAY for online services
New Delhi, Feb 4:
In an era of technology when the 'buy' button is just a click away, be doubly sure while making payments via the internet as fly-by-the-night online operators are mushrooming across the country, experts warn.
In…
US approves new drug for binge eating disorder
Washington, Feb 4:
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a drug to treat moderate to severe binge eating disorder (BED) in adults - a first of its kind prescription drug specifically indicated for BED.
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Another person tests positive for swine flu in Odisha
Odisha Sun Times Bureau
Bhubaneswar, Feb 3:
Another person tested positive for swine flu in Odisha today. The afflicted person is a woman and hails from Saheed Nagar area of the capital city, sources in the directorate of Public Health…
Ancient ‘scientific’ theories need research
Panaji, Feb 3:
Ancient 'scientific' theories, similar to the one referred to by Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently, need to be researched, said the organiser of a three-day national-level science conference due to be held in Goa later…
Now, create kitchen garden using coir
Alappuzha (Kerala), Feb 3:
Thanks to innovative coir-based 'grow bags', for dwellers of high-rise apartments kitchen gardens will no longer be a patch of greenery outside the house, but literally a garden inside the kitchen.
A few…
Yellow droplets point to acid rain in Odisha capital!
Odisha Sun Times Bureau
Bhubaneswar, Feb 3:
The ecological ramifications arising out of the emerging concrete jungles and the fast depleting green cover in the Odisha capital has kept the denizens on the fragile plane as panic grips the…
Smoke from fires could intensify tornadoes
New York, Feb 3:
Smoke particles from fires could intensify tornadoes, says a study.
The researchers examined the impacts of smoke - resulting from spring agricultural land-clearing fires in Central America - on a severe weather…