A study conducted by the scientists at the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, revealed that a hazardous type of snoring called sleep apnea can result in stroke by lowering blood flow to the brain, increasing blood pressure and eventually harming the brain’s capability to adapt these changes.

Writing in the Journal of Applied Physiology, the group led by Vahid Mohsenin said that their findings may help clarify why people having sleep apnea are more likely to suffer strokes and to die during sleep.

It might come as an astonishing surprise to many, but interestingly, a way has been found to change coconut husks into automotive interiors by the researchers at Baylor University.

As per reports, it is possible to make trunk liners, floorboards and car-door interior covers using fibres from the outer husks of coconuts, replacing the synthetic polyester fibres typically used in composite materials.

Falling in love or make someone fall in love won’t be that difficult anymore, since a nose spray is under trial for this purpose. The latest tests have shown that drugs could be used to alter the brain's emotion-controlling areas to heighten or suppress feelings of attraction.

The researchers said, “The treatments could be used to aid marriage counseling or even help a person stay monogamous.”

This time, LG has wished ‘Valentine’ to its tech savvy users in advance, by making announcement about the launching of its latest full touch screen GSM handset KP500 Cookie, as well as a HT953TV high power (1,000W) output home theatre system in the Indian market.

LG Cookie is an affordable and user-friendly full touch screen GSM phone, which comes with an array of features including a 3 megapixel camera, a QWERTY onscreen keyboard, powerful battery with talk time up to 7 hours, 48 MB internal memory plus 1GB micro SD cards.

The Assamese school students were greatly impressed by NASA astronaut Edward Michael Finke, who onboard the ISS today. The man spoke to the students in their native language while an extraordinary live interaction from the space lab was being conducted.

When asked whether he could speak Assamese, Mike Finke, who is married to an Assamese Renita Saikia, said, “Moi alop kobo paru.” (I can speak a little)

It has been learnt that the new Windows PC operating system has being opened up by Microsoft for anyone who has the guts to download it early.

A pre-release, test version of Microsoft (MSFT) Windows 7, the successor to the oft-maligned Windows Vista could be fetched by the public on Friday. This announcement was made on Wednesday night on the eve of the Consumer Electronics Show by CEO Steve Ballmer.