Just when you thought your Smartphone couldn’t get any smarter, a new app has successfully been tested to detect cancer. How? First you use a special scanner, developed by Harvard and MIT researchers, to extract cells using a tiny needle. Then you hook it up to your Smartphone, which analyzes the cells and delivers a diagnosis within an hour. The most …Continue Reading
The US space agency says its Dawn probe should go into orbit around the Asteroid Vesta early on Saturday The robotic satellite will be spending a year at the 530km-wide body before moving on to the “dwarf planet” Ceres. Tweet This Post
For the past decade, researchers have tried to reprogram the identity of all kinds of cell types. Heart cells are one of the most sought-after cells in regenerative medicine because researchers anticipate that they may help to repair injured hearts by replacing lost tissue. Now, researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania are the first …Continue Reading
Space shuttle Atlantis displayed its power and majesty one final time, rocketing into space from Kennedy Space Center at 11:26 a.m. ET Friday morning despite threatening weather — marking the final launch after 30 years for NASA’s storied fleet of shuttles. Seven million pounds of thrust from the shuttle’s rocket booster carried the vehicle into orbit one last time, at …Continue Reading
Record snowfall, killer tornadoes, devastating floods: There’s no doubt about it. Since Dec. 2010, the weather in the USA has been positively wild. But why? Some recent news reports have attributed the phenomenon to an extreme “La Niña,” a band of cold water stretching across the Pacific Ocean with global repercussions for climate and weather. But NASA climatologist Bill Patzert …Continue Reading
The European Space Agency says it has completed what it calls the largest digital camera ever built for a space mission – a one billion pixel array camera that will help create a three-dimensional picture of the Milky Way Galaxy. Read more here Tweet This Post
California researchers have created a tissue-engineered small-scale small intestine in mice, a breakthrough for regenerative medicine and a step toward growing new intestines for humans. The process re-creates all the layers of cells that make up a functioning intestine. Read more here Tweet This Post
The naked mole rat isn’t a particularly handsome devil, but there’s more to life than being pretty–like living ten times longer than other mammals your size, withstanding extremely harsh conditions without breaking a sweat, or beating cancer. The naked mole rat does all of these things without really trying, so it’s perhaps unsurprising that British researchers are sequencing the un-cuddly rodent’s …Continue Reading
Along with its massive high-speed rail network, China has officially surpassed the United States in yet another piece of transportation infrastructure: the world’s longest sea bridge. Read more here Tweet This Post