Philandering female felines forgo fidelity
While promiscuity in the animal kingdom is generally a male thing, researchers for the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) have found that, in c...High tech in the U.K. Do the Brits forgo Web 2.0?
One company is undercutting the likes of <...The 'forgotten epidemic' killing millions
Malaria, the ancient mosquito-borne disease that was rolled back by medical advances in the mid-20th century, is making a deadly comeback.// Strains of the disease are becoming increasingly resistant to treatment, infecting and killing more people than ever before -- sickening as many as 900 million last year, according to estimates by the U.S. Agency for International Development. <B...The Memory Retains Things that We Have forgotten
We might feel that we have forgotten certain things in everyday life, but in a study conducted researchers have noted that whatever we have forgotten does still stay in our memory//. Sander Daselaar of the University of Amsterdam and Roberto Cabeza of Duke University, conducted a study in which they explain that our brain houses more memories than we think it, does. According to the o...Advertisements Telecast During Sexy Programmes are Most Often Forgotten
People are unable to remember the brand of products publicized during programmes with sexual content. On the contrary, if the advertisement is telecast during// programmes with no sexual content, viewers were able to recall the contents of the advertisement. This was the key message that came from research carried out at the Department of Psychology at University College London by E...Ireland’s ‘Forgotten’ Patients To Be Given Better Cre
According to the annual report of the Mental Health Commission of Ireland, mental health services are highly inadequate//. While praising the mental heath caregivers for their acceptance of the need of teamwork, Mental Health Inspector Dr. Susan Finnerty, said that more attention was to be drawn to integrated care planning; the new law under the mental health act. In other w...The Forgotten Indian Medical Genius
Yellapragada SubbaRow, an Indian from Andhra Pradesh in the 1940s pioneered path-breaking research in the US in biochemistry, helping to bring to humankind some lifesaving drugs widely used today. The admirers of Yellapragada SubbaRow, a name very few Indians would be familiar with, say he deserves a place in the pantheon of top scientists in the land of his birth. Subba...