Blizzard around Saturn : The storm on Saturn Planet  is so large that it’s visible from Earth, thanks to NASA Cassini spacecraft, which is currently orbiting Saturn. “We were so excited to get a heads-up from the amateurs,” said Cassini scientist Gordon Bjoraker, a composite infrared spectrometer team member based at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight [...]

PARIS: Starting smoking and addiction to it could be driven to a large degree by your genes, a trio of studies published on Sunday suggested. Researchers reported that single yet widely prevalent changes in the DNA code on several chromosomes were associated with a range of smoking habits. The papers, published online in the journal [...]

NASA  space agency has released some spectacular photos and videos of our sun; we’ve included a few below. The recently launched Solar Dynamics Observatory has been taking some unique portraits of our solar companion using four telescopes looking at the sun in different wavelengths. The results are unusual and beautiful, fulfilling the mission’s goal of [...]

A few minor variations in one gene may make a difference in athletic endurance, according to a new study from Physiological Genomics. The study examined 155 track and field athletes who had competed in national or international track and field competitions. The athletes were further subdivided into endurance group (10,000 meter and marathon runners) and [...]

Note that “social games” are web-based games like Mafia Wars and FarmVille that you play on social networks like Facebook, not Xbox 360 action games like Gears of War or Halo — young males still dominate that branch of the gaming hobby. The survey found that 55% of social gamers are female and 45% are [...]

Some cool quotes from Microsoft employees about the upcoming Windows OS, currently codenamed Windows 8. Though it does bring up painful memories of what was promised about Vista (the marketing campaign, you may remember, was called “the wow starts now”), Microsoft did partially redeem itself with Windows 7, so we can put some (if not [...]

You might be thinking that,  your  slogan is in discussion. Hunger makes food appealing , and we love to eat when we are hungry. But, the fact is what happens when we are full, even then we continues to eat and feels pleasure while eating. Why? Former research studies suggest that the so-called hunger hormone [...]

People who have smaller fingers have a better sense of touch, according to new research in the Dec. 16 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. This finding explains why women tend to have better tactile acuity than men, because women on average have smaller fingers. “Neuroscientists have long known that some people have a better [...]