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An American doctor measured one fingernail for 35 years, his scientific experiment won an Ig Nobel but in literatureFor thirty-five years, Dr. William B. Bean kept a detailed account of his left thumbnail's growth. His self-study unveiled striking pattern...- Scientists found ants have been running tiny 'Dairy Farms' for 35 million years, and the sweet reward explains whyAnts and aphids share an ancient mutualistic relationship for nourishment and protection. Ants herd aphids, receiving sugary honeydew and p...
- Summer is quietly changing your body, and your fingernails prove itWarmer weather may slightly increase nail growth due to better blood circulation. However, a physician's decades-long study found no measur...
- Psychology says people who bite the skin around their fingers are not without self-control, they may be responding to their brain's reward systemPsychology says biting the skin around the fingers may be linked to body-focused repetitive behaviors, emotion regulation, habit formation,...
- How long will you live? Harvard longevity expert says the secret lies in how frequently you need to cut your nailsHarvard geneticist Dr. David Sinclair suggests nail growth rate is a biological marker of aging. A 1979 study showed fingernail growth decl...
- India to launch ESA's Proba-3 spacecraft in December: Jitendra SinghIndia is set to launch the European Space Agency's Proba-3 mission in early December from the Sriharikota spaceport. The mission, scheduled...
- Why humans become taller in space, Sunita Williams answersAstronaut Sunita Williams, currently on an eight-month mission aboard the ISS with Butch Wilmore, shares intriguing insights into how space...
- Surviving sans grey matter: New study claims jellyfishes learn from past experiencesThese "seemingly simple" jellies, no bigger than a fingernail and living in mangrove swamps, have a complex visual system with 24 eyes embe...
- Doomsday Glacier on the verge of a complete meltdown? Read to knowThe Nature Geoscience journal published research that mentions the Doomsday Glacier could start melting uncontrollably and affect ecosystem...
- Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier on verge of breaking way, poses threat to billion livesThe Thwaites glacier is said to be hanging onto mainland Antarctica by its fingernails according to a survey. Geophysicists have been scrut...
- Observing changes in fingernails? Red half-moon-shaped marks, ridges and white lines may be due to CovidCovid nails isn’t a medical term. However, it is a common aftereffect seen in many Covid patients.
- Skin lesions, hearing loss: Four strange Covid-19 symptoms you might not have heard aboutWith the rise of new variants, the symptoms of Covid have also evolved.
- Scared of needles? New smartphone app can detect anaemiaThe app uses photos of a person's fingernails to accurately measure haemoglobin in their blood.
- Animal protection bodies call for strict measures to stop pangolin poachingThey said the footage, captured by World Animal Protection (WAP) and Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, University of Oxford (WildCRU), s...
- Novel underwater robot may boost research on marine lifeNew York, Aug 2 (IANS) US scientists have developed a novel soft, flexible and customisable sampling device that can help in the collection...
- The world's smallest wearable device can monitor your exposure to UV raysL'Oreal introduced the new wearable UV sensor that sticks on your nail.
- 3/4th death row convicts socio-economically backward: ReportThe report also states that more than 80% of the death row inmates are subjected to 'inhuman, degrading and extreme forms of physical and m...
- Gen-next fade-proof paints in the offingBirds use sophisticated changes to the structure of their feathers to create multi-coloured plumage, according to a new study that could pa...
- Small infections cost India Rs 69,000 crore a yearIndia loses Rs 69,000 crore a year—more than twice the sum of Rs 34,488 crore it set aside for the country's health budget in 2012—to small...
- Sandisk launches world's first 16GB mobile flash memorySanDisk Corporation announced the launch of world's first 16GB microSD & memory stick micro mobile memory cards. In Pics: G1 phone I iPhone...
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