Eco Factor: Edinburgh researchers engineer bacteria to detect land mines. Statistics point out that about 20,000 people are killed every year by land mines that are currently scattered in over 87 countries worldwide. Detecting these land mines...

Male infertility might not be after all a lifestyle ailment as a number of researches have pointed out. A University of Edinburgh study has suggested that male fertility problems are determined at the foetal stage or in other words, a male child...

Supercomputers of the size of matchboxes are coming within this decade. Scientists claim to have discovered how microscopic wires behave. And tiny wires thousand times thinner than one human hair (measured in millionths of a millimetre) will...

According to British Scientist, biofuels made up of corn and rapeseed result in more greenhouse emissions. It has been reported that fuel resulting from rapeseed produces 70 percent and corn produces 50 percent more green house...

Diabetes, sometimes, causes memory loss. A research team of the University of Edinburgh is going to start a study to find out the link between diabetes and the decline of mental health. Type 2 diabetes is linked with an increased risk of memory...