If weddings, graduation ceremonies, and cute animal commercials cause you to melt into a puddle of tears, take comfort: You’re not alone. Nobody quite knows why some people cry when they’re happy, but in the video below, Business Insider’s Graham Flanagan explains why positive emotions may prompt us to turnRead More

Washington: Including magnesium rich food like spices, nuts, beans, cocoa, whole grains and green leafy vegetables in your diet daily may reduce the risk of coronary heart disease, stroke and type-2 diabetes, reveals a study. The study was published in the open access journal BMC Medicine. Researchers from Zhejiang UniversityRead More

London: Eating at least 20 grammes of nuts a day – equivalent to a handful – may lower the risk of heart disease, cancer and premature death, new research has claimed. The analysis of all current studies on nut consumption and disease risk showed that 20 grammes daily can cutRead More

Toronto: Malaria was a significant historical pathogen that caused widespread death in ancient Roman Empire, according to researchers who analysed 2,000-year-old human remains from several regions across the Italian peninsula. The study addresses a longstanding debate about the pervasiveness of the disease in this ancient civilisation. Researchers obtained mitochondrial genomicRead More

Melbourne, A new flexible polymer patch can improve the conduction of electrical impulses across damaged heart tissue without the need for stitches, scientists say. The patch, which has been shown to work in animal models, is long lasting and has the significant advantage that it can be stuck onto theRead More

Washington,  Smokers can improve their life expectancy even if they kick the butt in their 60s, a new study has claimed. Researchers at National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the US also suggest that people aged 70 or older currently smoking were more than three times more likely to dieRead More

Los Angeles, Religious and spiritual experiences activate the brain reward circuits in much the same way as love, sex, gambling, drugs and music, a new study has claimed. Researchers at the University of Utah in the US specifically set out to determine which brain networks are involved in representing spiritualRead More

Washington A new research has found that toddlers learn new words using the same method as robots. The study suggests that early learning is based not on conscious thought but on an automatic ability to associate objects that enables babies to quickly make sense of their environment. Dr Katie TwomeyRead More

Washington: Taking low-dose aspirin every day may reduce the risk of a heart attack, prevent some cancers and extend lives over the course of 20 years in adults at high risk of heart disease, a new study has claimed. Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in both menRead More

Washington D.C.: According to a recent set of guidelines published in the Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, a screening test for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), is recommended for all obese children aged nine to eleven years. The new guidelines, endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics, also outlineRead More