Bhaskar Prasad

Emergency room visits by children with concussions and other traumatic brain injuries from sports or other recreational activities have increased over the last decade according to a government report.

With the end of an era as Steve Jobs died, it's time to reflect on his tenure with Apple and on some of his famous statements.

Apple's unveiling of the iPhone 4S Tuesday disappointed many who were anticipating an iPhone 5, but Siri, the voice assistant feature, has caught the imagination.

Sewage is home to thousands of novel, undiscovered viruses, some of which could relate to human health according to a new study.

Steve Jobs has influenced in some way or other the lives of so many that people around the world turned iSad on Wednesday, taking a break for sharing thoughts about the charming innovator who formed modern technology culture.

Researchers have succeeded in creating human embryonic stem cells by injecting DNA from a skin cell into an unfertilized egg, according to a study

Hollywood star George Clooney, 50, is back and this time he is both directing and starring, in a film based on a play - Farragut North - written by Beau Willimon.

Apple co-founder, Steve Jobs, died Wednesday at the age of 56 after years-long battle with pancreatic cancer. As we are faced with the end of the era of Steve Jobs it will be a time for reflecting upon what we can learn from his leadership style.

Some producers of the long-running television animated comedy, The Simpsons reportedly have agreed to salary cuts in order to the show running.

The first comet containing water similar to Earth's oceans has been discovered by a team of astronomers using the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory.

Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor, announced Wednesday that she will not be seeking the Republican nomination for president for 2012

In Iowa state a pregnant woman has suffered a miscarriage after contracting listeria infection traced to cantaloupes

Smoking could be responsible for 40 million excess deaths from tuberculosis between 2010 and 2050, says a new study.

The death toll in the U.S. from a Listeria outbreak traced to cantaloupes has risen to 18, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday.

Samsung has said that it will be filing for the preliminary injunction requests for a ban on iPhone 4S sales with courts in France and Italy since the phone infringed its patents.

Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman has been awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work in the discovery of quasicrystals.

NASA has made the announcement that it will start accepting applications for its next class of astronaut candidates in November.

Fans of the crictically-acclaimed television cartoon series, The Simpsons, will be praying that American television network Fox Broadcasting Company and the actors who provide the voice for the show's primary characters will resolve the ongoing pay dispute as soon as possible. At stake is the possibility of Fox actually canceling a show that has run for twenty-three consecutive seasons.

More than 70 people were killed as Somalia's al Qaeda-linked rebels hit the centre of the capital with a truck bomb.

Preorders for Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet are strong with more than a month before it officially goes on sale according to a leaked sales report to tech site Cult of Android.

Apple unveiled on the event on Tuesday the iPhone 4S, a major upgrade over its previous iPhone 4 model having iOS 5, iCloud and Siri.

Women who use contraception injections double their likelihood that they will contract an HIV infection or transmit it to their male partners according to a new research.

Even in relatively modern societies, humans are still changing and evolving in response to their environment, new research indicates.

Apple unveiled the iPhone 4S in its event on Tuesday which could have resulted in disappointment for many users who were anticipating the iPhone 5 but for one feature “Siri”, the voice assistant feature, which has caught the imagination of everyone.

The 2011 Nobel Prize for Physics will be shared by three scientists, for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe through observations of exploding stars, according to the Nobel Prize Committee.

With the advent of the Apple’s “Let’s Talk iPhone” event rumors are strengthening that there will be only a iPhone 4S and no iPhone 5.

There are unprecedented levels of depletion of the ozone layer, above the Arctic Circle, this spring, according to a NASA-led study. The research was conducted by a team of scientists from 19 institutions across nine countries, including Canada and the United States.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has recently released a report identifying the those cities in the world with the worst statistics relating to levels of air pollution.

This will be the first time that Tim Cook, Apple's new CEO, will take center stage after Steve Jobs' resignation.