Washington, Sep 3 (ANI): Compared to the conventional farms, organic ones produce more flavourful and nutritious strawberries while leaving the soil healthier and more genetically diverse, says a new study.

Washington, Sep 3 (ANI): A new research has discovered that males with a variant form of the immune receptor gene 'Toll Like Receptor 7 (TLR7)' are more likely to develop the autoimmune disease systemic lupus erythematosus (lupus).

London, Sep 3 (ANI): Experts can predict how stressed you are or if you are prone to a heart attack, just by looking at your hair, revealed a study.

Washington, Sept 3 (ANI): Recently, female victims of sex trafficking on the website Craigslist pleaded with founder Craig Newmark to delete the adult services section of the site, where sex ads are frequently placed, until adequate safeguards are put in place.

Washington, Sept 3 (ANI): A UC Santa Barbara scientist has come up with a new method of predicting how contaminants like oil from Deepwater Horizon spill would spread.

Washington, Sept 3 (ANI): A rare, vine-swinging species of chameleon called 'Tarzan chameleon' has been discovered in a tiny patch of forest on the vast Indian Ocean island of Madagascar, a new study says.

London, Sept 3 (ANI): Soon, music aficionados can use plug-in USB speakers that produce high-quality sound from the laptop without the need for mains power.

Washington, Sep 3 (ANI): Psychological treatments could offer migraine sufferers a confidence boost in their ability to self-manage their symptoms, according to a new study.

Washington, Sep 3 (ANI): By using new models, reinforced by in vivo experimentation, researchers have shown why 5-10 percent of bone fractures don't heal properly, and how these cases may be treated to restart the healing process.

London, Sep 3 (ANI): Cyanobacteria - organisms that thrived on Earth before there was enough oxygen to block harmful ultraviolet light-could pave way for new and improved sunscreens, according to a new study.

Washington, Sep 3 (ANI): ESA's Herschel infrared space observatory has discovered the key ingredient for making water in space- ultraviolet starlight.

Washington, Sep 3 (ANI): Researchers discovered a novel compound that shows promise as a next generation treatment for drug resistant malaria.

Washington, Sep 3 (ANI): UCSF team led by an Indian-origin scientist has unveiled a prototype model of the first implantable artificial kidney-a feat that one day could eliminate the need for dialysis

Washington, Sep 3 (ANI): Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, have discovered a true counterpart of the cerebral cortex in an invertebrate, a marine worm.

Washington, Sep 3 (ANI): Corals, big mammals and many tropical species could all go extinct in what could be a major extinction event in the not too distant future, predict scientists who are attempting to forecast the fate of today's animals by studying what happened to those in the distant past.

Washington, Sept 3 (ANI): NASA is developing an unprecedented mission to study the Sun closer than ever before.

London, Sept 3 (ANI): Chubby chaps can actually make love for longer, says a new study.

Washington, Sep 03 (ANI): A new study has revealed that the academic performance of adolescents will suffer in at least one of four key subjects-English, math, science, history-if their DNA contains one or more of three specific dopamine gene variations.

Wellington, Sept 3 (ANI): New Zealand researchers have performed a feat nothing less than magic, by converting one kiwifruit into 100 plastic spoons and sewage into electricity.

Washington, Sept 3 (ANI): They may be tiny, but ants can bring giant elephants down to their knees, according to a new study that reveals that elephants in the savannah have good reason to be scared of the tiny insects.

Washington, Sept 3 (ANI): Cigarette smoke causes a key enzyme that regulates the body's response to inflammation, to shut off, according to a new study.esearchers at University of Alabama at Birmingham found that smoke causes the enzyme to shut down white blood cells following a successful response to inflammation.

Melbourne, Sept 3 (ANI): After nine years of research, panspermia theorists have said that the 'red' rains that occurred in India in July 2001 contained bugs that were unlike anything ever found on the Earth, suggesting that it may be an alien form of life.

London, Sep 03 (ANI): Scientists may soon discover why older women are more likely to produce abnormal eggs.

Washington, Sept 3 (ANI): Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have discovered why eating fish may be a great idea to ward off chronic inflammation and insulin resistance.

Washington, Sept 3 (ANI): People who believe in fate are more superstitious, but the same people, when faced with death, abandon all their beliefs - says a new study.

Washington, Sept 3 (ANI): A new laser technology being developed at the University of Michigan and Omni Sciences, Inc. will protect helicopters in combat from enemy missiles.

Bangalore, Sep 2 (ANI): A hospital in cooperation with a research group here, has conceptualised and launched a health service that uses mobile phones to detect cancer.

London, Sep 2(ANI): The Big Bang was the result of the inevitable laws of physics and did not need God to spark the creation of Universe, claimed Stephen Hawking.

Washington, Sept 2 (ANI): New research has revealed that the gateway effect of marijuana - that teenagers who use marijuana are more likely to move on to harder illicit drugs as young adults - is overblown.

Washington, Sept 2 (ANI): A study led by researchers in the Oregon Health and Science University Smoking Cessation Centre analysis whether stopping smoking cessation treatments too soon may reduce odds of success for patients.

Washington, Sept 2 (ANI): Submarines need to probe ocean depths, and that too without being visible to enemies at times - both properties that they can now implement using new nanotube technology.

Washington, Sept 2 (ANI): A physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has helped NASA scientists observe a hidden layer of the Sun where violent space weather can originate, by positioning a crucial UV sensor inside a space-borne instrument.

Washington, Sept 2 (ANI): Experienced drinkers develop associations between alcohol's taste and smell, and the intoxication that follows soon thereafter, indicating a predisposition towards alcohol or dependence on it.

Washington, Sep 2 (ANI): Kids, aged just 7 years, need only a single interaction with a person to learn if they can trust and seek information from him or her, according to a study by Queen's University researchers.

Washington, Sep 2 (ANI): Making a surprising discovery, researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) have found that cranberry juice cocktail blocked a strain of Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) from beginning the process of infection.

Washington, Sep 2 (ANI): University of Waterloo engineering researchers have come up with a new smart materials process-Multiple Memory Material Technology- that could revolutionize the manufacture of diverse products such as medical devices, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), printers, hard drives, automotive components, valves and actuators.

Washington, Sep 2 (ANI): People suffering with psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis have come one step closer to a cure with the release of the first National Psoriasis Victor Henschel BioBank DNA samples for use in research at the University of Michigan Health System.

Washington, Sep 02 (ANI): Scientists have discovered that microbes could soon be used to convert metallic wastes into high-value catalysts for generating clean energy.

London, Sep 2 (ANI): In a surprising discovery researchers at Boston University and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard have found that charitable behaviour exists in one of the most microscopic forms of life-bacteria.

Washington, Sep 2 (ANI): The fat tissue in those spare tires and lower belly pooches - is not just a dormant storage depot for surplus calories, but is an active organ that sends chemical signals to other parts of the body, perhaps increasing the risk of heart attacks, cancer, and other diseases, according to scientists.

Washington, Sept 2 (ANI): A new study has revealed that consuming oral dietary supplements four days before receiving Botox injections made the toxin more effective in 93 percent of patients.

Washington, Sept 2 (ANI): Researchers at University of California, San Diego are using dark silicon - the underused transistors in modern microprocessors - to improve smartphone efficiency.

Washington, Sept 2 (ANI): Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have created a miniature device that can make complex viscosity measurements on sample sizes as small as a few nanoliters.

Washington, Sep 2 (ANI): In a first of its kind study, Aussie researchers have found that bacterial biofilms can go on to create gold nuggets-a feta that could help prospectors use biosensors to zero-in on where clumps of the precious metal may lie.

London, Sept 2 (ANI): It's a common phenomenon for laptops and mobiles to become blisteringly hot after an hour or two of use, but a new wonder conductor could change all that.

Washington, Sept 2 (ANI): Although space collisions are rare, when they do happen, they leave a long-lasting impact. A coalition of satellite traffic cops, however, aims to prevent these episodes from occurring at all.

Washington, Sept 2 (ANI): Scientists have discovered green fluorescence in Nubian skeletons indicating a tetracycline-labelled bone, a finding that shows that antibiotics were already in use nearly 2,000 years ago.

London, Sep 2 (ANI): A 'Star Trek'-style medical tricorder, developed Brit scientists can diagnose diseases such as breast cancer in minutes.

Washington, Sep 2 (ANI): Scientists have come up with a molecular test designed to easily diagnose tuberculosis (TB) and detect a drug-resistant form of the bacterium that causes TB can provide much more specific, sensitive and rapid results than currently available TB diagnostics.

Washington, Sept 2 (ANI): The significant differences in the knee alignment and muscle activation that exist between men and women also translate into the way they play soccer, says a new study.

Washington, Sept 2 (ANI): Solving crossword puzzles and reading may do you good initially, but speed up dementia later in life, says a new study.

London, Sep 2 (ANI): It's not the much-hyped size zero of models that is behind the rising rates of bulimia and anorexia nervosa among women, but its the images of successful people contribute to such illnesses, regardless of how thin they are.

Washington, Sep 02 (ANI): A new study has suggested that young adults who get fewer than eight hours of sleep per night have greater risks of psychological distress, a combination of high levels of depressive and anxious symptoms.

Washington, Sep 2 (ANI): Chemists have found a simple and inexpensive technique to pull pure oxygen from water using relatively small amounts of electricity, common chemicals and a room-temperature glass of water.

Washington, Sep 2 (ANI): Voluntary activity, such as daily exercise, is a highly heritable trait that can be passed down genetically to successive generations, according to biologists at the University of California, Riverside.

Washington, Sept 2 (ANI): If you were planning to fly in a developing country, the results of this new study might change those plans, for the risk of airplane crashes is 13 times more than that in US and other First World countries.

Washington, Sept 2 (ANI): Scientists at Purdue University have developed a new pump for microneedles drug delivery patch to deliver a wider range of medications than now possible with conventional patches.

Sydney, Sept 2 (ANI): Black rice, regularly used in China but uncommon in the West, could be one of the healthiest foods, say experts.

Washington, Sept 2 (ANI): An infant's gaze may be an early, although subtle, marker for autism, says a new study.

Washington, sept 2 (ANI): Scientists have discovered a new infrared technology to look deeper into the guts of cells, potentially opening up a new frontier in the fight against cancer and many other diseases.