Small habits like walking up flights of stairs or carrying your shopping instead of using a trolley could be the key to preventing Type 2 Diabetes, according to world-first research led by Monash University.
Bhubaneswar/IBNS: Demonstrating its unwavering commitment to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) undertook extensive relief operations in the aftermath of Cyclone Arnab to provide timely assistance to communities affected in Ganjam district, Odisha.
The ocean absorbs around 30 per cent of human-caused carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions and 90 per cent of excess heat trapped by greenhouse gases. But climate change has already reduced its capacity to absorb carbon by approximately six per cent, a new UN report warns ahead of the COP31 climate conference in November.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Friday successfully launched NVS-03, India's next-generation navigation satellite, strengthening the country's indigenous navigation capabilities and marking another significant milestone in its space programme.
Climate inaction continues to harm and kill people in all countries with a record 710,000 estimated deaths globally from heat in 2023, a UN-partnered report warned on Wednesday. For the first time, more than seven in 10 fatalities were attributable to human-caused climate change.
Children who eat more ultra-processed foods (UPFs) show stronger responses in the brain’s reward network when viewing images of appetizing foods—and these brain responses are linked to increases in body fat one year later. The findings, just published in JAMA Network Open, suggest that the brain may become more sensitive to food cues when children consume more UPFs.
A glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) in Bhutan has left a section of a highway blocked by debris, cutting off the remote Laya region from the rest of the country, according to media reports.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Wednesday, October 28, said that very severe cyclonic storm Arnab was lying over the west-central Bay of Bengal, off the Andhra Pradesh coast, and had remained stationary for the previous three hours.
New Delhi: The Centre has sent a high-level team to Madhya Pradesh to investigate the death of a 19-month-old cheetah from firearm pellet injuries, the government said on Wednesday.
The Indian government has committed ₹116 crore to Navi Mumbai-based Manastu Space Technologies Private Limited to advance the development of indigenous green propulsion technology for satellites and launch vehicles.
Satellite images have captured Cyclone Arnab swirling over the Bay of Bengal as the storm intensifies and moves towards the Andhra Pradesh coast, prompting the India Meteorological Department (IMD) to issue a red-level cyclone warning for Andhra Pradesh and adjoining parts of southern Odisha.
Paris/IBNS: The first reported human case of Shamonda virus has been recorded in France, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed on Thursday.
Two earthquakes, including a powerful magnitude 7 tremor, struck Tibet on Thursday evening, followed by another magnitude 5.2 earthquake in China, according to the National Centre for Seismology (NCS).
Plastics are supposed to be chemically inert. It’s the reason they’re used so frequently to package food, bottle water, and create children’s toys: They’re safe.
Samsung Electronics has announced a major update to its Samsung Health app, making Sleep Coaching easier to access by reducing the amount of sleep data required to get started.
Eating sweets while taking antibiotics may worsen the harm done by the drugs to the normal community of bacteria in the gut, a new study found.
India’s space economy, currently valued at around $9 billion, is expected to grow to $40–45 billion over the next seven to eight years, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences Jitendra Singh said at a media roundtable in New Delhi.
More than one in five adults in the United States experience mental illness each year, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). Mental health challenges also affect children and adolescents, with more than one in seven young people aged 6–17 experiencing a mental health disorder.
A short-term oat-based diet appears to be surprisingly effective at reducing the cholesterol level.
A man has died after being attacked by a tiger after entering its enclosure at Yorkshire Wildlife Park in England, police said.
A flash flood struck Nepal’s Gorkha district on Sunday, leaving at least five people missing, months after a devastating deluge in the Himalayan nation claimed hundreds of lives.
New research suggests that peanuts may do more than provide calories, with specific fatty acids associated with peanut consumption linked to a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
Child and adolescent obesity has quadrupled since 1990, rising from two per cent to around eight per cent of youngsters in the five-to-19 age group, according to the UN World Health Organization (WHO).
Scientists Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai have been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis,” the Nobel Prize-awarding body announced on Wednesday.
Researchers have reconstructed the earliest known plague genomes, showing for the first time that early forms of the disease caused deadly outbreaks around 5,500 years ago — long before the Black Death killed up to half of Europe’s population.
The death of a lab worker in Russia’s Siberia region has sparked concerns over a possible plague case, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday, adding that it was following the situation closely.
An earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale struck Uttarakhand on Tuesday night, with tremors being felt in Delhi-NCR and several other parts of North India.
Belgian-American particle physicist Francis Halzen has won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his “decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin”, the award-giving body said.
American neuroscientist, psychiatrist and bioengineer Karl Deisseroth has been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Rotting food waste is causing up to 10 per cent of total global greenhouse gas emissions – five times more than the entire aviation sector, the UN’s environment agency warned this week.
