As the Editors Guild of India has underlined, this is how journalism proceeds, fresh information often overturning earlier accounts, especially when there is action happening on multiple fronts. To construe these actions as malicious and intended to destroy communal harmony and incite violence equates to shooting the messenger. That police in two states lodged similar FIRs on the prodding of private complainants highlights how accusing journalists of sedition is becoming a fairly common tack: Some weeks ago, three journalists in Manipur became its victims.

Samsung’s plans for the Galaxy S8, on the other hand, are still said to be on track. The smartphone is rumoured to be launched on February 26 next year, just ahead of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. It is said to have a 16 or 18 megapixel dual camera setup on the back; rumours point to the end of Home button on Samsung phones with the launch of Galaxy S8..

The novel work we present here focuses on demonstrating, by in vitro and in vivo investigations, that phospholipid microbubbles entrapped in alginate spheres can be used as a contrast agent to measure pressure variations in the human stomach.The development of the pressure sensitive contrast agent by entrapping microbubbles into alginate gel spheres is first presented. The T2eff relaxation time of the alginate spheres has been assessed using an MSME sequence and is found to decrease by a factor of 2 in the presence of microbubbles. Furthermore, by applying increasing pressure on to the alginate spheres containing microbubbles, the T2eff is seen to increase as the pressure increases, with a sensitivity of 43 % change per bar.The pressure sensitivity of the contrast agent is further assessed, in vitro, by performing rapid pressure cycle experiments with the use of the RARE sequence, which exhibited around 40 % signal change per bar, in both the 2.35T small animal Bruker and the 3T whole body Philips MRI scanners.

Obesity campaigners cautioned the results should not be seen as a green light to “let yourself go” when reaching middle age but added there was evidence gaining weight can be useful in protecting against fatal diseases. Prof Hui Zheng, a sociologist at The Ohio State University, said: “The main message is for those who start at a normal weight in early adulthood, gaining a modest amount of weight throughout life and entering the overweight category in later adulthood can actually increase the probability of survival.” Prof Zheng and colleagues analysed 8,329 participants in the Framingham Heart Study 4,576 parents and 3,753 of their children. Residents of the Massachusetts town have been tracked since 1948.