Religion may soon become extinct in some of the nations.

According to census study carried out by researcher from nine countries shows that Religious status could be a thing of past.

The study found a steady rise in atheist. The team's mathematical model attempts to account for the interplay between the number of religious respondents and the social motives behind being one.

Religion may soon become extinct in some of the nations.

Loved people place lower value on material goods

People who are loved and accepted by others feel so secure that they place lesser monetary value on their possessions that those who are not.

The research was conducted by Edward Lemay, assistant professor of psychology at the University of New Hampshire and colleagues from Yale University, the Journal of Experimental Psychology reports.

Loved people place lower value on material goods

According to researchers, many people can see into their future.

Here is a wacky and startling findings by the researcher of Cornell University. According to this study, led by Daryl Bem, study has suggested that many people can see into the future.

The study have also found that influencing events before they happen is also within many people's remit, the 'Daily Mail' reported.

They have based their findings on an analysis of a series of experiments,involving 1,000 volunteers.In one experiment, students were shown a list of words to memorise. They were later asked to recall as many as they could and finally they were given a random selection of the words to type out.

According to researchers, many people can see into their future.

According to researchers, Flirting can be more than just fun.

According to new research study, finding success in romance depends in part on understanding your own personal "flirting style."

Whether or not you prefer sidling up to a stranger in a bar or you'd rather sit back and wait for an object of attraction to approach are distinctions that once recognized can help people navigate the rocky seas of relationships, according to Jeffrey Hall, assistant professor of communication studies at the University of Kansas.

According to researchers, Flirting can be more than just fun.

Genes which discourages you from drinking found by scientists

Do u Feel discouraged by yourself when it comes to drinking ?? Then it may be in our genes.

A gene that plays an indirect role in preventing some people from becoming alcoholics has been identified for the first time.

Researchers from University of North Carolina have found out the gene, called CYP2E1, which is indirectly responsible for the protective effect for 10 to 20 per cent of the population.

The gene, they said, codes for an enzyme that breaks down ethanol-- the intoxicating agent in alcoholic beverages -- and other toxins in the brain, LiveScience reported.

Genes which discourages you from drinking found by scientists

According to study, your weight may increase if you sleep with 'lights on'

Do you think is there any connection between Sleeping with light on and weight gain? But the science shows there is a link.

According to the study carried out by researcher at the Ohio State University, Too much light at night appears to lead to weight gain, based on studies of mice .

The researchers found that mice exposed to a dim light at night over eight weeks had a weight gain that was about 50 per cent more than other mice that lived in a standard light-dark cycle.

“Although there were no differences in activity levels or daily consumption of food, the mice that lived with light at night were getting fatter than the others,” said Ms Laura Fonken, the lead author of the study and a researcher at the Ohio State University.

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According to study, your weight may increase if you sleep with 'lights on'

Report: Coming 5 years, India's Wealth will double

According to Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report , India's wealth is estimated by US $ 6.4 trillion which is almost double to the current US $ 3.5 trillions.

This is the first report published by Credit Suisse Global Wealth which is is one of the world’s leading financial services providers.

This report also suggested that the global wealth, which stood at US $195 trillion will rise by an impressive 61 per cent to US $315 trillion by 2015, primarily driven by emerging markets like India, China, Brazil.....

This report also gave the stats of Billionaire present in the world and interestingly, Asia Pacific has more billionaires than Europe. There are over 1,000 billionaires globally, of which 500 are in North America, followed by 245 in Asia Pacific and 230 in Europe.

Report: Coming 5 years, India's Wealth will double

Scientist comes up with a Quiz type of test to predict your love relationship.

This is kind of wacky and weird... but for those who believe in science and if you are in relationship then here is a good news for you.

A love test designed by scientists can tell what the chances are of a relationship being a success.

A team of Researchers have designed a quiz type of questioning pattern to predict the outcome of whether more than 50 couples would split up over a 12 month period.

This test uses psychological technique to discover what people really think of their partners by how easy they find it to associate them with positive or negative words.

Scientist comes up with a Quiz type of test to predict your love relationship.

Magnet may influence your brain to turn a left-hander to a right-hander

(PTI) A powerful magnetic field can temporarily confuse the brain and alter our hand preference, a new study has found.

In an extraordinary experiment by researchers at the University of California found that volunteers' hand choices were changed when they were subjected to a powerful magnetic field.

Although the effects lasted till the magnet was switched on, the study threw light on the origin of hand choice in the brain, the researchers said.

It also highlighted that how it is easy to change people's behaviour with magnets, they added.

Dr Flavio Oliveira, who led the study, said: "We are not really looking at handedness, but at hand choice. We found that in situations where people are almost equally likely to use their left or right hand we can make them use their left hand more by stimulating this part of the brain."

Magnet may influence your brain to turn a left-hander to a right-hander

City life may help you boost your immunity.

(IANS) Researchers discovered that such people are more likely to have a genetic variant that protects them from tuberculosis and leprosy.

They analysed DNA samples from populations across Europe, Asia and Africa and compared rates of genetic disease resistance with urban history.

Poor sanitation and heavy population densities provided an ideal breeding ground for infections in built-up areas in previous generations, reports the journal Evolution.

Past exposure to pathogens led to disease resistance spreading through populations because ancestors passed it on to their descendants, a Daily Mail report quoting scientists, said.

City life may help you boost your immunity.

Novel anti-malarial drug candidate discovered .

(ANI)Researchers discovered a novel compound that shows promise as a next generation treatment for drug resistant malaria.

Scientists at the Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases (NITD), achieved the above feat in collaboration with researchers from the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF), the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute and The Scripps Research Institute.

The findings demonstrate that the antimalarial candidate, spiroindolone NITD609, is effective against both strains of the malaria parasite, Plasmodium (P.) falciparum and P. vivax.

Through a novel mechanism NITD609 rapidly clears plasmodium in a malaria mouse model and shows pharmacological properties compatible with a once-daily dosing regimen.

Novel anti-malarial drug candidate discovered .

Formula milk contain more aluminium than breast milk: Study

(PTI) In one more reason why mothers should breastfeed their babies as long as possible, scientists in UK have found that formula milk contain 40 times more aluminium than breast milk, potentially putting the toddlers' health at risk.

Researchers at the Keele University, Staffordshire, who examined 16 of the UK's leading formula milk brands meant for children up to the age of one, found that traces of the metal in those products are much higher than is legally allowed in water.

One formula made by Cow & Gate — specifically marketed for premature babies — had the highest level of all, with more than 800 micrograms per litre, the researchers said.

Formula milk contain more aluminium than breast milk: Study

Competing for Co-partner may reduce your lifespan.

A new study shows that ratios between males and females affect human longevity. Men who reach sexual maturity in a context in which they far outnumber women live, on average, three months less than men whose competition for a mate isn't as stiff. The steeper the gender ratio (also known as the operational sex ratio), the sharper the decline in lifespan.

"At first blush, a quarter of a year may not seem like much, but it is comparable to the effects of, say, taking a daily aspirin, or engaging in moderate exercise," says Nicholas Christakis, senior author on the study and professor of medicine and medical sociology at Harvard Medical School as well as professor of sociology at Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences. "A 65-year-old man is typically expected to live another 15.4 years. Removing three months from this block of time is significant."

These results are published in the August issue of the journal Demography.

Competing for Co-partner may reduce your lifespan.

Praying to God helps to de-stress but only for those who belive in it.

"Eighty-five percent of the world has some sort of religious beliefs," says Michael Inzlicht, who cowrote the study with Alexa Tullett, both at the University of Toronto Scarborough. "I think it behooves us as psychologists to study why people have these beliefs; exploring what functions, if any, they may serve."

With two experiments, the researchers showed that when people think about religion and God, their brains respond differently—in a way that lets them take setbacks in stride and react with less distress to anxiety-provoking mistakes. Participants either wrote about religion or did a scrambled word task that included religion and God-related words. Then the researchers recorded their brain activity as they completed a computerized task—one that was chosen because it has a high rate of errors. The results showed that when people were primed to think about religion and God, either consciously or unconsciously, brain activity decreases in areas consistent with the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), an area associated with a number of things, including regulating bodily states of arousal and serving an alerting function when things are going wrong, including when we make mistakes.

Praying to God helps to de-stress but only for those who belive in it.

Blood transfusion can raise heart attack risk

Recent studies suggest a blood transfusion during surgery increases the patient's risk of death, particularly from heart attacks or strokes and of serious illnesses, such as pneumonia and cancer of the lymph glands.

The risk, however, is not linked to contaminated blood infecting them with deadly viruses. Instead, scientists are investigating two possible causes, reports the Daily Mail.

One is that donated blood, instead of boosting a sick person's ability to ward off infection, might leave their immune system unable to resist attacks by bacteria and viruses, according to the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

Blood transfusion can raise heart attack risk

Trick the Brain to shed weight.

Being a little smart may help you lose weight! The brain can be tricked into shedding weight by eating high satiety, low-calorie foods like apples, bananas and grapes.

For instance, eating an apple before your meal can make you feel more satisfied from your food, says a Daily Mail report.

Apples are about 25 per cent air and, as they're digested, they produce the hormone GLP-1, which sends satiety signals to the brain.

Trick the Brain to shed weight.

Calcium pills 'increase' risk of heart attack

By Emma Wilkinson Health reporter, BBC News

Calcium supplements taken by many older people could be increasing their risk of a heart attack, research shows.

The study, in the British Medical Journal, said people who took supplements were 30% more likely to have a heart attack.

Data from 11 trials also suggested the medicines were not very effective at preventing bone fractures.

Almost 3m people in the UK are thought to have osteoporosis and many take calcium pills to prevent fractures.

Calcium pills 'increase' risk of heart attack

New pills shrink cancer tumours by half .

cientists at a British laboratory have developed two pills which can halt the spread of skin cancer by shrinking deadly tumours by half.

Scientists at the GlaxoSmithKline drugs firm say the pills - which could be available within three years - will improve the length and quality of life for those with malignant melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, the Daily Mail reported.

Malignant melanoma is the "most quickly rising" cancer in Britain, with around 10,000 new cases and 2,000 deaths each year. Rates have doubled in the last two decades, because of excessive tanning by British people on holidays to hot countries.

New pills shrink cancer tumours by half .

Post-dinner tipple cuts health risks in elderly

Now say cheers! A peg or two of alcohol after dinner can reduce the risk of heart disease, stroke, diabetes and dementia in elderly people, claim scientists.

Research shows that elderly people who take one or two drinks a day have up to 30 percent lower mortality rates than teetotallers. And the best time to enjoy a tipple is after a meal, when it can be absorbed by the food rather than making the drinker feel light-headed.

According to Daily Mail, researchers at the University of Western Australia studied the effects of regular drinking on about 25,000 people over 65.

Post-dinner tipple cuts health risks in elderly

Smog bad for your heart: Study

An early test on rats has provided the first direct indication that smog is bad for heart.

A major component of smog might trigger cell death in the heart, researchers said at the American Heart Association's Basic Cardiovascular Sciences 2010 Scientific Sessions – Technological and Conceptual Advances in Cardiovascular Disease.

The study found that exposure to ground-level ozone over several weeks increased the activity of a substance that triggers cell death in the heart.

Ozone becomes a major component of smog when it forms near the ground through reactions between sunlight, nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons from fossil fuels and industrial processes.

Smog bad for your heart: Study