Researchers said on Monday they had identified the molecule in the tongue that helps people taste umami, the "fifth taste" also known as monosodium glutamate (MSG) that gives many Asian foods their

Smokers may be getting twice the amount of tar and nicotine from low-tar cigarettes than previously thought, according to a study in this week's Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Current tar

The Thimphu paediatric ward is treating an unusual 50 to 80 cases of diarrhoea among children every day making doctors suspect a viral outbreak in Thimphu

A beauty cream manufactured in Mexico caused mercury poisoning in consumers and their family members in Texas and Arizona, according to a report. The contaminated cream, called Crema de Belleza

Changing sexual behavior in Zambia has resulted in a decline in HIV infection in the key age group of 15 t0 19 years, AIDS researchers said. They said infection in the overall population also

A 15-member team of the Jigme Dorji National Park (JDNP), led by Dr. Rodney Jackson of the International Snow Leopard Trust, has conducted a month long survey on the endangered snow leopard. Little

While it was not possible to prevent the floods caused by glacial lake outbrust in 1994 , which caused massive damages to the Punaka Valley, Bhutan warning signals could have been sent, according to

Rural-urban migration, deforestation, land degradation, water and air pollution and solid waste management have been identified as emerging environmental problems in the draft report "State of

Scientists trying to work out how cells, even cancer cells, manage to migrate through the body, may have found an explaination. Dr Daniel Hammer, from the University of Pennsylvania, believes his

The number of infections acquired by patients in hospital could be cut by half if some medical tubes were coated in silver, say doctors. A study carried out by doctors at the University of Michigan,