Disciplined and observational study of the natural world including, but not limited to: Biology, Physics, Chemistry, and Earth Science.
NASA’s Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), recently renamed the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope in honor of Enrico Fermi, has begun its exploration of the universe. The spacecraft and its revolutionary instruments passed their orbital checkout with flying colors. In ...
A team of Italian researchers, part of the OBELIX collaboration, used data taken from CERN, the European particle physics laboratory, from 1990 until 1996 and after careful analysis reported a surprising finding: a good fraction of a low energy antimatter ...
Researchers at the Surface Science Laboratory at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid have created an ultrasmooth mirror that could be used to create a revolutionary new atomic microscope within the next several years. The new atomic microscope has the potential to ...
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could be tested for a scary disease just by putting your underwear on? This could soon become reality. Scientists from the Centre for Research and Innovation at the University of Bolton in the United ...
During its first week of operation, the performance of CERN’s new collider exceeded expectations. Only days later a fault occurred, involving a liquid helium leak and demanding a shutdown of the collider. Repairs require heating the collider and will therefore ...
If you don’t like exercising you’re definitely not alone in your aversion. However, soon there may be a solution for you – in a form of a pill. Scientists from the Salk institute for Biological studies in California have developed ...
A new study by researchers from the US and Chile suggest there is an upper limit on the mass of black holes. Using a variety of observational data they trace the accretion history of black holes, from which the mass ...
Ad Astra Rocket Company of Webster, Texas is nearly ready to test its Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR) in space. A scale model of the plasma rocket will be put through its paces at the International Space Station (ISS) ...
A team from the University in Michigan, led by Shawn Xu, has discovered that tiny worms can sense light. This discovery may lead to further breakthroughs in the research of vision, helping researchers understand the basis of human vision diseases ...
Cambridge Consultants, as part of the Continua Health Alliance, has announced the development of the Vena platform. Vena is a single-chip communications solution for health devices, with the capability to provide wired (USB) and wireless (Bluetooth) connectivity to health devices. ...