A man uses Samsung Electronics' tablet Galaxy Tab 10.1 displayed for customers at the company's headquarters in Seoul. (Reuters)By REUTERS SEOUL: Samsung Electronics Co. said it had delayed the launch of a new smartphone based on Google’s latest version of the Android operating system while the world pays tribute to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs who died last week. The delay also comes as... 

By Arun Kumar Washington, (IANS) It’s just been a couple of days since he won the Pulitzer, but Indian American cancer specialist Siddhartha Mukherjee has no time to celebrate. He is already back at work, seeing patients and even doing some writing.”You know, I have gone back to work really – full clinic, clinical responsibilities, back to seeing patients. I am doing some writing... 

Washington, April 14 (ANI): A study has found that women feel more intense emotions than men when a conflict arises within the couple. Conversely, it is men –who mostly express “powerful emotions” as wrath or despise– who cause conflicts more frequently. Researchers from the Department of Social Psychology of the University of Granada, Inmaculada Valor Segura, Francisca Exposito y Miguel... 

London, April 14 (ANI): A new survey has revealed that middle-aged women are four times more unhappy than teenage girls with what they see in the mirror. The study, which was carried out online by Opinion Matters in January 2011 of 1,246 women, discovered that over 90 percent of women aged in their 40s and 50s are so unhappy with the way they look that they suffer from what experts have dubbed ”mid-life... 

Washington, Apr 13 (ANI): A rainbow-trapping scientist is now working to capture all the colours of the rainbow, which could lead to new breakthroughs in boosting data storage and communications. Qiaoqiang Gan, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University at Buffalo”s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and his colleagues created nanoplasmonic structures by making... 

Washington, Apr 13 (ANI): A study has found that plants depend on circadian rhythms, which are physical, mental and behavioural changes that follow a 24-hour cycle, to survive freezing temperatures. Michael Thomashow, University Distinguished Professor of molecular genetics, along with MSU colleagues Malia Dong and Eva Farre, has identified that the circadian clock provides key input required for plants... 

Washington, Apr 13 (ANI): A new study has found that drinking alcohol primes certain areas of our brain to learn and remember better. Neurobiologist Hitoshi Morikawa said the common view that drinking is bad for learning and memory isn”t wrong, but it highlights only one side of what ethanol consumption does to the brain. “Usually, when we talk about learning and memory, we”re talking... 

London, April 13 (ANI): A burger that clocks in at a gut-busting 1160 calories is the newest creation by Burger King and has been launched in Japan. ‘Meat Monster’ is made up of two hamburgers, a chicken breast fillet, two slices of processed cheese, three rashers of bacon and all the trimmings served between two white buns, reports the Daily Mail. It has more salt than four bags of crisps, and... 

Washington, April 12 (ANI): A study has suggested that people in different cultures make different assumptions about the people around them. The researchers studied the brain waves of people with Caucasian and Asian backgrounds and found that cultural differences in how we think about other people are embedded deep in our minds. Cultural differences are evident very deep in the brain, challenging a... 

Washington, April 12 (ANI): A just-married German researcher has created the world”s smallest wedding rings from DNA strands. Prof Alexander Heckel and his doctoral student Thorsten Schmidt from the Goethe University interlocked the rings like two links in a chain. The interlocked rings, known as catenans (after the Latin word for “chain”), measure just 18 nanometers in size. Schmidt,...