What synthetic substance has been found to increase testosterone?

BPA, a chemical used in food and drink containers, has a molecular structure similar to oestrogen and has caused some disruption of sex hormone signalling in laboratory animals.

A scientist has revealed that with genetically modified frog cells, the artificial nose of a robot can smell accurately because the X laevis oocyte has high versatility for the development of chemical sensors for various smells.

Ron Hoskins, a 79-year-old beekeeper, has been breeding a strain of bees which groom one another to remove the parasitic varroa mite that poses a threat to humanity because the billions of bees it kills worldwide are crucial to pollinate crops and plants.

NASA’s images of geographical features on the moon have shown that the satellite has shrunk within the last 800 million years.

A protein administered by Amgen Research in California which gets rid of excess activin resulted in the mice gaining lost weight five or 14 days after they were implanted with a colon tumour due to which they stopped eating and lost 20% of their body weight.

According to scientists, diamond sheets patterned with thousands of nitrogen atoms could provide the basis for a supercomputer because nitrogen-vacancy diamonds can store millions of times more information than the silicon-based system and process that information dozens of times faster.

Scientists at the Imperial College, London, found that the tropical disease evolved alongside humans and moved with our ancestors as they migrated out of Africa around 80,000 years ago.

A study by the computer security company Symantec, called State of Spam and Phishing, revealed that, overall, spam comprised 91.89% of all emails circulated in India in July this year and that, on average, the figure remains at around 85%.

A study revealed that more the amount of cranberry juice one drinks, the more the attachment force of the virulent E coli infections that cause urinary infections is weakened.

The All-India Asteroid Search Campaign, held from May to August in various parts of the India, resulted in the discovery of four Main Belt Asteroids — 2010 PU57, 2010 PV57, 2010 PO4 and 2010PL26 — and a virtual impactor, 2010 NB2.