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Scientists have identified a defective gene that can make a young person's heart stop beating for no apparent reason. The heart basically starts quivering instead, unable to pump blood efficiently.

More than 49,000 cattle in Britain at risk of developing mad cow disease are untraceable, according to an official memo reported here on Thursday. The missing cattle is part of the 140,000 animals

A week after the world was shaken by predictions of a close encounter with an asteroid in 2028, some astronomers have resolved to make certain they are right the next time they announce that the sky

A new technique significantly reduces salmonella in chickens by providing protection that before factory farming, was naturally transferred from a mother hen to her chicks scientists announced. The

The tobacco industry spent more than $19 million on outside lobbyists last year - three times as much as in 1996 - most of it to press for passage of the proposed national tobacco

Despite all possible effoerts of the state forest department to check the continuous felling of trees all around the state, the trend still continues and the biggest hurdle in implementing the forest

The Local Administration Department has received over half a dozen bids from professional waste disposal companies for operating Chennai's first garbage recyling plant. The bidders include firms

The Congress members in the Legislative Council today staged a walk-out expressing dissatisfaction over the State Government's reply to a notice seeking to move an adjournment motion over the

The Vrishabhavathi river, which was once a major source of water to Bangalore city, is now nothing but sewage and sullage. This startling bit of news was recently revealed in a study undertaken by

According to local astronomers, the twin cities are no longer conducive to watching effectively rare astronomical occurences, because of the astronomical levels of atmospheric pollution. The outer