Among two brothers in the house, the younger one has more chances of growing up as gay, claimed a new research. It says that having a son triggers a physical reaction in mums, making it more likely that later boys will grow up to be gay.

Humans could have more in common with our extra-terrestrial neighbours, than initially thought, new research suggests.

Tired of watching your child play video games? Instead, join them, as researchers have found that playing video games can help boost memory in the young as well as in the elderly.

The Moon Mineralogy Mapper, which supplied the data for the research, measures light reflected off of the lunar surface.

With the parasite responsible for most malaria cases -- Plasmodium falciparum -- developing resistance to widely-used treatments, researchers have developed a new drug to fight the mosquito-born disease.

A research done by Dr Daniel Brown has figured out what makes people thrive, from studies of babies and teenagers, to studies of artists, sportspeople, employees and the elderly.

If researchers are to be believed then Earth must get itself ready to face major disaster as one-third of the total parasites are likely to disappear by 2070.

The "happy" or "sad" tweets may not accurately reflect a Twitter user's actual emotional state offline, suggests new research.

In the early Bronze Age nearly 4,000 years ago, European women travelled far from their home villages to start their families, bringing with them new cultural objects and ideas, while men usually remained in the region of their birth, a research has showed.

Rise in temperature of oceans due to climate change can shrink fishes by up to 30 per cent, finds a study by two researchers at the University of British Columbia in Canada.