LONDON (TIP): The number of deaths and liver transplants, due to overdose of paracetamol — a drug commonly popped by Indians for fever and cough, has fallen by a whopping 43% in England and Wales, […]

MELBOURNE (TIP): The iconic tradition of blowing out candles on birthday cakes may soon be passe — at least for Aussie kids! Australian children are to be banned from blowing out candles together on birthday […]

LONDON (TIP): Man has once again played God. The world’s first bionic man Rex, created using nearly $1 million-worth of state-of-the-art limbs and organs — synthetic blood from Sheffield University, prosthetic legs and ankle from […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): A gap in the Antarctic ozone layer has impacted the way the waters in the southern oceans mix, with the potential to alter the amount of atmospheric CO2 and possibly affect climate change, […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): Scientists have discovered that an old star — 176 light years away from Earth — thought to be past its prime may still be creating new planets. The disk of material surrounding the […]

LONDON (TIP): The European Space Agency (ESA) plans to set up a base on Moon by using a 3D printer to build it from lunar materials, scientists say. Industrial partners including renowned architects Foster + […]

LONDON (TIP): Understanding the most complex human organ — the brain, has now become a lot simpler. In a major breakthrough, scientists at Berkeley Lab has made it possible to get a front row view […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): Narrow ridges found in Martian craters may actually be fossilized remnants of underground cracks through which water once flowed on the red planet, a new study claims. Water flowing beneath the surface of […]

MELBOURNE (TIP): Astronomers have made the most precise measurement ever of how the universe has cooled down during its 13.77 billion year history just as predicted in Big Bang theory. They studied molecules in clouds […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): A US company plans to mine asteroids for metals, useful ores and minerals as they hurtle past the Earth using the first rockprospecting spacecraft by 2015. Deep Space Industries says it wants to […]

LONDON (TIP): A genetic storage device has been used to ‘download’ all 154 of Shakespeare’s sonnets on to strands of synthetic DNA, in a breakthrough which could solve the problem of storing the ever-growing mountain […]

LONDON (TIP): Women look their oldest at 3.30pm every Wednesday because it’s the day when energy levels plummet, work stress is at a peak and the effects of any weekend late nights finally kick in, […]

NORTH LAS VEGAS (TIP): An inflatable space pod to be attached to the International Space Station in a couple of years will be like no other piece of the station. Instead of metal, its walls […]

LOS ANGELES (TIP): Nasa‘s Curiosity rover is preparing to drill the Martian surface and is driving towards a flat rock with pale veins that may hold clues to a wet history on the Red Planet. […]

MUMBAI (TIP): More than a century after it went missing, the fossil of what has been regarded as India‘s first recorded dinosaur has been rediscovered in Kolkata, according to a top scientific journal. The recovery […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): Nasa scientists have discovered blocks of hydrocarbon ice in seas and lakes on Saturn’s moon Titan that may host exotic forms of life. A new study by scientists on Nasa’s Cassini mission found […]

LONDON (TIP):Harvard scientists have developed a drug which they claim can cure permanent deafness by stimulating the inner ear. The drug, codenamed LY411575, works by triggering the regeneration of sensory hair cells. Until now it […]

NEW DELHI (TIP): It is no longer a question of will we find a true Earth analogue, but a question of when, says Steve Howell, project scientist at the NASA mission that is searching for […]

SYDNEY (TIP): Breakthrough research mapping how insulin works at a molecular level could lead to new diabetes treatments and end daily needle jabs, helping hundreds of millions of suffers, scientists said. A joint US-Australian team […]

SINGAPORE (TIP): Scientists have warned of moregreat earthquakes – of the magnitude 8 to 8.5 – in theHimalayas, especially in areas with their surface yet tobe broken by a temblor.A research team led by Nanyang […]

LONDON (TIP): NASA engineers were amazed after clicking a latest picture of the Sun which appeared to be “winking at them”. The image, which actually reveals sunspots caused by intense magnetic activity, was taken on […]

LONDON (TIP): Scientists are designing a new ambitious robotic humanoid helper with artificial muscles to help people with everyday tasks. Engineers at the University of Zurich’s Artificial Intelligence Lab hope that 1.2 metre tall Roboy, […]

NEW YORK (TIP): Researchers are developing a ‘smart closet’ that has the artificial intelligence to suggest occasion-based and colour-appropriate outfits. The Magic Closet is a computer programme, under development at the National University of Singapore […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): Nasa has developed a new gen-next spacesuit, for its advanced space ventures including the manned Mars mission, that can supply oxygen and protect the astronaut from extreme temperatures. The new space suit is […]