Puffing kills. But a new study, led by a researcher of Indian-origin, claims that mobiles phones are more dangerous than fags. "Though mobiles can save lives in emergencies, there is a significant and increasing body of evidence for a link between mobile phone usage and certain brain tumours (which can …
DELHI Migrants might be causing uproar in some parts of the country but photo-journalist Harish Tyagi sees their lives in an entirely different light through his lense. In an exhibition titled Distress Migration and its Effect on Children, Tyagi's pictures tell an often-sor
If a link with cancer wasn't bad enough, radiation may be bad for your heart too. A review of 65,000 staff who worked in the UK's nuclear industry between 1946 and 2002 has discovered a link between circulatory disease and staff who worked in high-exposure jobs. The increased risk is …
Cockroaches survived much more than humans Fruit flies, flour beetles tougher than cockroaches Last year, the Myth Buster TV team from the Discovery Channel announced that they would find out experimentally whether cockroaches would be the only living form to survive a nuclear war (The Hindu, November, 1, 2007). On …
