Pharma majors shift focus to inhalants, nasal spray for Covid

While Lupin is working on a Remdesivir powder for inhalation, Glenmark has tied up with a Canadian Biotech firm for nitric oxide nasal spray that reduces Sars-CoV-2 viral load and thus......

Curiosity rover finds evidence of ingredients for life on Mars: NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's rover Curiosity has detected the first traces of nitrogen on the surface of Mars, a discovery that adds to the evidence that the red planet could......

Chocolate a day lowers BP, heart ailments

You may now relish the taste of your favourite chocolate daily, as a new study has found that having a small piece of bar everyday helps lower blood pressure and reduces risk of heart disease. A......

Stored blood may do more harm than good

Blood begins to lose nitric oxide, a key gas that opens up blood vessels to facilitate the transfer of oxygen from red blood cells to oxygen-starved tissues, as soon as it is stored in blood banks......

Future supercars to say goodbye to gasoline

The Detroit Motor Show is usually a place where manufacturers show their most powerful, gas-guzzling V8s and V12s. Performance cars with a hint of saving the planet have not been the theme so far.......

Why gold is God

When I was a little kid, my father used to tell me: "An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold." Time went by and a few decades later, I landed in Gujarat, India's most economically......

How Keki Gharda stunned the MNC giants

Once upon a time he used to bite pens. Now he fidgets with a knife in a cramped office lined up to the ceiling with books that range from Game Theory to the history of the Roman Empire to polymer......