A team of researchers from the Mangal Panchaytan Parishad have found over six-crore-year-old fossils of banana leaves, peepal and coconut trees in Dhar district near Indore.

The head of the group, Vishal Varma expressed that they found conch-shaped organisms buried for a long time. These organisms are found on water and grass. The group has searched the same place for dinasour eggs and its bones.

Research indicates that females have found the rise of the "more feminine man" or "metro sexual", a big switch-off.

Researchers from Rutgers University in New Jersey, US found that unassuming and self-effacing men quite often are not as liked as the masculine ones.

According to a study Mammography screening for women in their forties is not very effective since its detectability is very low and can't detect tumor growth rate,

A recent study at the German Institute for Nutritional Research in Potsdam-Rehbrücke has reported that the perimeter of waist can reveal the diabetes status of a person.

At present, BMI is the criteria for deciding the chances of developing diabetes. Generally, when BMI measures increases more than 25 points, doctors take waist perimeter into the consideration.

A study has claimed to have found that the human sperm gene is 600 million years old that was the time of the beginning of the animal evolution.

According to a new study by Canadian researchers, people suffering from asthma are more prone to other diseases that require medical care. The research was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Government of Ontario and the Public Health Agency of Canada. It was released by Toronto's Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, focuses on the issues comorbidity — diseases that accompany another disease.

Researchers from the Peninsula Medical School at the universities of Exeter and Plymouth said there was no evidence that many of the drugs work, while research from the University of Gottingen in Germany found people on supplements based on cabbage powder, bean concentrate and plant extracts did not lose any more weight than those taking a fake pill.