Male fertility comes down to one thing in many cases: sperm motility. If they’re not good swimmers, fertility can be an issue, reports the Independent. But researchers at the University of Wolverhampton in the UK are reporting (though not yet in a peer-reviewed scientific journal) that they may have hit ... Read More »
Kids with persistent symptoms months after a concussion have lower quality of life than kids who have recovered, but even kids who recovered quickly may still struggle, according to a new Canadian study. “While it has been long-understood that brain injuries may negatively impact quality-of-life (especially in those patients with ... Read More »
UNITED NATIONS – A U.N. expert says junk food is a human rights concern. Hilal Elver, the U.N.’s special representative on the right to food, said Tuesday the rise of industrial food production combined with trade liberalization has allowed large corporations to flood the global market with cheap, nutrient-poor foods ... Read More »
Students at a Chinese university now have the option to test themselves for HIV at their convenience, as they can now purchase affordable testing kits in vending machines. The urine test kits cost approximately $4.40 and are sold next to instant noodles and other snacks at Southwest Petroleum University in ... Read More »
State-run universities, deemed universities and other educational institutions should be pushed to provide quality education that can transform youngsters who can solve problems that the country is facing, Secretary to the Union Ministry of Biotechnology, K. Vijay Raghavan has said. Skilled labourers Addressing the sixth convocation programme of Yenepoya University ... Read More »
NEW DELHI — According to the Narendra Modi government, using the word “sex” in a government document for framing policy on sex education for school students can “offend” people. Even though it is unclear who these “people” are, reported The Telegraph, the human resource development (HRD) ministry asked an expert ... Read More »
New Delhi, Oct. 23: One word (and its derivatives) must be taboo for any policy document on sex education for teens, the NDA government believes. That word is “sex”. The human resource development ministry has forced an expert panel to condense its recommendations on adolescent education to just one sentence ... Read More »
Enthused by speedy recovery of loans worth $2.5 billion by three lenders, including ICICI Bank, within days of a mega $13-billion Essar deal, banks are now looking at the resolution of stressed assets totalling about 1.50 lakh crore in the coming months. Having broadly completed the first two stages of ... Read More »
The Centre will provide higher a subsidy to airlines that operate flights between two regional airports under the regional connectivity scheme. It will also allow airlines to transfer its rights or contract to get the subsidy from the government and fly on regional routes to another airline operating a similar ... Read More »
The Centre is planning to monitor flights landing at regional airports remotely instead of constructing new traffic control towers near such airports in a bid to cut costs, an official said. Flights landing at regional airports will receive instructions from an air traffic control officer who might be sitting miles ... Read More »
Researchers at TU Delft have made flat surfaces that are 3-D printed and then ‘taught’ how to self- fold later. The materials are potentially very well suited for all kinds of medical implants. They report on their findings in the October 24th edition of Materials Horizons which features this research ... Read More »
Major internet services including Twitter, Spotify and Amazon suffered service interruptions and outages on Friday as a US internet provider came under sustained cyber attack. The internet service company Dyn, which routes and manages internet traffic, said that it had suffered a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on its ... Read More »
