2019

After completing my Ph.D., I had a difficult choice to make: A career in academia or in the industry? I was also looking at a postdoc as an option. So, I was a bit indecisive at a time when I needed to set some clear goals. This decision…

We always find excuses to get some more hours of sleep. Now even the scientists of Bar-Illan University in Israel have published a study in Nature Communications that insists on sleeping some more! According to the researchers, the DNA…

Until recently, it was believed that eardrums were required for long-range hearing, but mosquitoes and some insects use their feathery antennae with fine hairs to hear close distance of few inches. However, a study conducted by Ron Hoy,…

We maintain several good habits like brushing the teeth twice and so on to maintain healthy teeth. The researchers at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have come up with a strange discovery. They studied the feces of the…

In research design, population and sampling are two important terms. A population is a group of individuals that share common connections. A sample is a subset of the population. The sample size is the number of individuals in a sample. The…

Beijing, China: Chinese researchers have published several scientific papers and made a significant mark in the publishing industry. In fact, it has ranked as the largest producer of scientific papers. However, with the increased research…

2019 is off to a rough start for US science agencies following the record-breaking 35-day partial government shutdown. The shutdown, which impacted many large agencies through forced furloughs and closures, has left a lasting impact as…

Previous studies have already shown that among all the organs in the body that are susceptible to cancer when it spreads, liver is the one. However, the researchers didn’t know the possible reason. A team of researchers at the Abramson…

As strange as the title seems, so is the recent discovery made by the researchers at Simon Fraser’s University. According to the study, the number of children a woman has gives an idea about her ageing process. The study was conducted on 75…