Father’s Preconception Habits Can Cause Fetal Disorders

Everyone is aware of the fact that consuming hard drink and smoking during pregnancy is harmful to the fetus and can lead to Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS). And babies with FAS faces complications such as stunted growth, retarded brain, nervous system dysfunction, isolation and other social problems. So far, father was not thought to be contributing to such abnormalities. However, in a recent research claims to prove that fathers are even more liable and therefore need to keep a check on their lifestyle. Fathers indulged in alcohol, smoking, drugs and…

Pigeons Are Born With An Inbuilt GPS

Pigeons are known for their ability to navigate through known locations by recalling of the memorized visual milestones. These birds can learn and follow frequent routes home this depends upon the complexity of the terrain below them which should neither be too pronounced nor to little. Hedges and boundaries provide ultimate landmarks for navigation, demarcating the urban from that of rural area. The research conducted by Dr Richard Mann at the Department of Mathematics, Uppsala University, in alliance with researchers at Oxford University and the Zoological Society of London. 

Exercise Eases Stress & Anxiety

Everyone knows about the benefits of exercise, it helps to keep our body fit and help fight disease. But apart from physical benefits, exercise can also provide mental fitness. It cannot make your problem disappear, instead will make your brain strong enough to cope up with them. Exercise play vital role in reducing exhaustion, enhancing alertness and other cognitive tasks. In fact, certain medical professionals also prescribe exercise when stress has taken its toll on energy level and fight off anxiety and depression.

Diet Beverages Won’t Help In Cutting Down The Excess Fat

For all those who are working hard to burn the flab from their body and are including all the diet alternatives like diet soda, available in the market, needs to think again. The latest research conducted at the Johns Hopkins University shows that the obese people opting diet soda often consume more calories from the food they have, than the overweight people drinking normal sugar-sweetened soda do. From 1965 to till date there is an increase of 17 percent in the diet soda sipping population. Now a days, about 20…

Coffee Strengthens Long Term Memory: A Research

Good news for all the coffee lovers! Until now, our favorite cup of coffee was helping us to stay alert. Now researchers from the Johns Hopkins University have found coffee could actually act as memory enhancer. Assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences, Michael Yassa and his team revealed that caffeine has an encouraging outcome on deep rooted memory in humans and up to 24 hours after its consumption, certain memories can be very well retained. 

The Black Swan, The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The book is quite enlightening in terms of conveying message as to how the world works. Things are not as easy as they appear to be. We are stuck in a complex web of randomness, which our mind is incapable of comprehending, a higher dimension so to say. Change by nature is erratic unlike constant, which we actually think it to be and such events are termed as Black Swans by Taleb. This book is an embodiment of idea, “what we don’t know is more important than what we know”…

Understanding The Reason Behind Zebra Stripes

Since the time of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, researchers were always curious to find out why the zebra evolved to have coat with such stripes, which does not help to camouflage in the environment like the stripes of other animals do. There are many theories supporting the function like signaling during social communication or disguising during the dawn or dusk time in tall grasses. The most convincing reason of all, supporting the stripes of the zebra says it was evolved to dazzle the big predators as well as…

Inkjet Technology To Print Eye Cell

For the first time a team of scientists from UK has pioneered in printing the eye cell taken from the adult eye using the new inkjet printing technology. Earlier scientists were able to print embryonic stem cells but could not create the delicate adult cells. Using the technology scientists now hope to fabricate tissue grafts made up of different cells taken from the retina of adult human eye to cure blindness or to create any replacement for damaged part or organ. 

Free Play For Everyone (1)

As promised in my last article, today I start a new series of posts to direct parents on how to spend what I like to call “smart times” with their little ones, and play games that will support a healthy development. In order to play right, a parent must know the types of play and the normal development of play in a child. This will give parents an opportunity to target the different types of play during their shared quality time. The main types of play are acquired throughout the…

Electrical Stimulation Provokes The Will to Persevere

I am sure that we have all heard stories of people who lead a fight with death, and won the fight against all odds. Such stories are no longer told for mere inspiration to hold on to life and declare war on hardships. It is now in fact being studied from a scientific point of view. A group of scientists believe that they may have discovered the brain part responsible for the “will to persevere”. The anterior midcingulate cortex has always been believed to play a role in emotions, pain…