M. Frederick Hawthorn receive the National Medal of Science from President Obama (Credit: Ryan K Morris/National Science & Technology Medals Foundation) Researchers from the University of Missouri developed a new form of radiation therapy that successfully put cancer into remission ...
Disciplined and observational study of the natural world including, but not limited to: Biology, Physics, Chemistry, and Earth Science.
Wireless Implant Predicts Heart Attack Hours Ahead
The tiny prototype lab – to be implamented under the skin Swiss researchers developed a tiny portable personal blood testing laboratory that can be inserted under the skin and can provide immediate analysis of substances in the body and transmit ...
New Drug May Reverse Autism Symptoms
Professor Naviaux (Credit: University of San Diego) Researchers from the University of San Diego in California have used a newly discovered function of an existing drug, to reinstate cell communications in a mouse model of autism, reversing the symptoms of ...
First Brain-to-Brain Interface Demonstrated
Researchers at Duke University have demonstrated for the first time an electronic link between the brains of pairs of rats. The link allowed the rats to communicate directly and solve simple tasks. A follow up research demonstrated a similar link ...
Study: Slow to Grow Babies Catch up by Early Teens
Professor Alan Emond from Bristol University who conducted the research A recently published research conducted by scientists from the University of Bristol revealed that most babies who are slow to gain weight in the first 9 months of their life ...
mChip – Super Fast and Cheap Blood Test
mChip test Researchers at Columbia University recently completed the development of a tiny inexpensive chip capable of quickly detecting HIV, syphilis and other infectious diseases. During a recent experiments, prototypes of the credit card-sized mChip were used with hundreds of ...
V-chip does 50 Tests with One Drop of Blood
The V-chip (Credit: Lidong Qin and Yujun Song) Scientists at the Methodist Hospital Research Institute and MD Anderson Cancer Center developed a special chip that can quickly analyze up to 50 different biomarkers in one go. The chip can help ...
NASA Preparing Next Gen Spacesuit
The Z1 – sitting down demo (Credit: NASA) The Z1 – extremly flexible (Credit: NASA) The Z1 – for the moon and beyond (Credit: NASA) In two years, NASA hopes to introduce a new line of spacesuits that will replace ...
Earth-like Planet Discovered 12 Light-Years Away
The Radial velocity method (Credit: European Southern Observatory) A recent discovery might have located a nearby solar system with up to five planets, one of them could be in just the right distance from its star to hold liquid water ...
Whiskers-like Sense for Humans under Development
The following study will definitely go up high on the strange research list. Scientists from the Weizmann Institute in Israel decided to add whiskers as an extra sense to human subjects in order to try and better understand how the ...