BALTIMORE - Radar piercing through the thick haze of methane surrounding Saturn’s moon Titan found some prominent landmarks had moved by as much as 19 miles in two years, NASA reported last week. The shifts provide the first evidence of a vast underground ocean of water and ammonia, on which the moon’s crust floats. “With its organic dunes, lakes, channels and mountains, Titan has one of the... 

SUNDAY, Mar 23, - Further evidence that red wine may be beneficial for the heart has emerged in the form of a Spanish study, which says polyphenols found in red wine help keep blood vessels healthy and prevent high blood pressure. Older women who are postmenopausal are naturally prone to high blood pressure because of the paucity of female sex hormones. Estrogen especially keeps the lining of the... 

LOS ANGELES - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is targeting April 8 as the date it will release its first batch of Blu-ray Disc titles that can be connected to the Internet for more bonus materials and features. The musical spoof “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story” and the Arnold Schwarzenegger sci-fi thriller “The 6th Day” will be the studio’s first two BD-Live titles.... 

Michael Anthony Mannion, also known as Mike Masala, a key witness in the murder of Scarlett Keeling, has finally come forward. Mannion, a friend of Samson D’Souza saw all that happened at the now infamous Luis Shack, including Samson’s sexual assault on Scarlett. The witness had been on a run from his friends who threatened to kill him. Mannion said, ”Scarlett was in an inebriated... 

NEW DELHI: Employees found smoking in their offices could soon cost organisations dear. In yet another attempt to deter people from lighting up in public and reduce the risk of passive smoking, the Union Health Ministry is now planning to put the onus on organisations which allow its employees to smoke within its premises. The ministry is planning a steep increase in the penalty for smoking in public... 

THURSDAY, March 20 — Happily married people have lower blood pressure than unhappy married people or singles, a Brigham Young University study says. On the other hand, even having a supportive social network did not translate into a blood pressure benefit for singles or unhappy married people, according to the study. “There seem to be some unique health benefits from marriage. It’s... 

Saturn’s moon Titan is encased in a thick, smoggy haze obscuring its surface, and planetary scientists speculated that the large moon, a little larger than the planet Mercury, might be awash in an ocean of hydrocarbons. But when NASA’s Cassini spacecraft arrived at Saturn in 2004 and sent the European Space Agency’s Huygens probe parachuting into Titan’s atmosphere, the pictures showed a landscape... 

Suspended Inspector General of Police Ravi Kant Sharma, and three others, Pradeep Sharma, Sri Bhagwan and Satya Prakash have been found guilty in the case. They are likely to be handed down either a death sentence or life imprisonment for killing a Delhi journalist, Shivani Bhatnagar, on January 23, 1999. The court has held 54-year-old Sharma as the main conspirator and Pradeep Sharma as her killer. In... 

A day after it was released for public download, Windows Vista SP1 is drawing barbs from some computer users who say the software wrecked their systems. “I downloaded it via Windows Update, and got a bluescreen on the third part of the update,” wrote “Iggy33″ in a comment posted Wednesday onMicrosoft (NSDQ: MSFT)’s Vista team blog. Iggy33 was just one of dozens of posters... 

Allergy season is right around the corner and that means for some lots of sneezing and sniffling. New research shows allergies can affect the sleep children get at night too. A telephone survey study shows that 29 percent of parents whose children had allergies said their children suffer from a lack of sleep, that’s compared to 12 percent of parents whose children did not. “They wake up...