New discoveries by the scientists may have solved the mystery of how human hands became nimble enough to make and manipulate stone tools. The team reports in the journal Evolution, through BBC News that changes in our hands and fingers were a side-effect of changes in the shape of our feet. This, they say, shows [...]

Recent study have surprised scientists, when an octopus and its coconut-carrying antics scoop up halved coconut shells before scampering away with them so they can later use them as shelters. The team says it is the first example of tool use in octopuses. One of the researchers, Dr Julian Finn from Australia’s Museum Victoria, told [...]

A new discovery on the technique using tiny bubbles to detect cancer has been developed by clinicians at a hospital in Kent. Fifty-four patients were tested in the “microbubble” study at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust. The results, which were published in the British Journal of Surgery, suggested that breast cancer patients could avoid [...]

New research indicates that cursing could be a very way of coping with pain by relieving it on the spot. Thus, no one likes it when someone has some sort of public outburst and starts hurling insults at everyone and everything. While the exact connection between swearing and pain management has yet to be established, [...]