What precious stone, when swallowed, may be used to diagnose illnesses?

Tim Berners-Lee has called for everyone to gain access to his creation for free. He said the web could be instrumental in giving people access to critical services suchas health-care.

Researcher Brad Law of the Forest Science Centre proved that bats living in the forests along the east coast of the state of New South Wales had distinct calls as compared to bats living elsewhere in the country.

After exposure to the chemical TBT, female marine snails living off the Perth coast are growing male sex organs on their heads, researchers have revealed. Curtin University researchers have said the snails are suffering from imposex, a condition that involves the development of a second sex organ after being exposed to the chemical.

An eminent chemical engineer who made vital contributions to nuclear materials development and production over the entire nuclear fuel cycle, Sethna died on Teachers’ Day in 2010. Sethna was the director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (Barc) from 1966-72, when the plan for the construction of India’s largest research reactor, Dhruva, was conceived. And it was during his tenure as AEC chairman (from 1972-83) that the peaceful nuclear experiment at Pokhran was successfully carried out in May 1974.

The researchers have developed sugars or protein-coated nano-diamonds that, when swallowed, harmlessly coat the digestive tract. The nano-diamonds are absorbed into the body and attach themselves to specific cells.

Researchers at the University of Westminster have found that special offers make us so deliriously happy that the brain is turned on to the same level excitement that it gets from sex.

A team of archaeologists discovered the ‘Long Wall of Quang Ngaiin’ in the mountain foothills of a remote province in central Vietnam after five years of exploration and excavation. Construction of the Long Wall started in 1819 under the direction of Le Van Duyet, a high-ranking mandarin serving emperor Gia Lon.

Scientists analysing remains at a 16,500-year-old burial ground in Uyun-al-Hammam, northern Jordan have uncovered a grave in which a fox was buried with a human. The grave was dated 4,000 years older than the earliest known human-dog burial.

A new research has suggested that eating less during early stage of pregnancy could cause lifetime damage to an unborn baby's brain, leading to lower IQ and behavioural problems. The research was conducted on animals at University of Texas, however, the findings are considered relevant to humans.

A NASA research team has revealed that Moon has a core similar to Earth after applying state-of-the-art seismological techniques to Apollo-era data.