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People who grow up in families with an alcoholic, violent or mentally ill member, usually a parent, are more likely to suffer from such serious physical problems as heart, lung and liver disease;

Two large genetic studies of families with many alcoholic members have identified areas of five separate chromosomes that may contain genes contributing to an individual's risk of alcoholism,

The people of Azara, Rani, Dharapur, Khanamukh, Majirgaon, Garal, Palasbari ect. in south Kamrup have been suffering from epidemics like viral fever and diarrhoea since a month

The expert committee constituted by the Government of India to study the erosion problem of Majuli island has submitted its report suggesting long-term and short-term measures for protection of the

Russian mission control officials said that computer failure aboard Mir had not affected the space station's positioning "too badly". Space officials said the crew replaced the computer with another

The fires ravaging Chimalapas forest in Mexico are so massive and remote that the authorities could not even count all the blazes until last week. The blazes not only have sent jungle cats, monkeys

Representatives of all nations involved in the International Space Station have agreed to officially target a November 1998 launch for the first station component and to revise launch target dates

New scientific results released by Greenpeace reveal for the first time the levels of pollution in sediments at the end of Sellafield's nuclear waste discharge pipe. A sample of the sediment,

The budgetary allocation for environment and forest sectors is expected to be around Rs 400 crore which is about 60 per cent higher compared with the previous year's allocation. According to ministry

A critical computer shut down aboard Mir yesterday, just three days before the US space shuttle Discovery's scheduled lift-off on a ferry flight to the Russian space station. The computer failure