Researchers at the Magnet Lab at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) are using magnetic fields to explore the properties of superconductors and other exotic materials. The LANL facility houses some of the largest and most powerful magnets in the world ...

A surgical procedure performed by a team from Boston University, Massachusetts led by Professor Frank Guenther, has enabled a mute man to speak again. An electrode implanted in the patient’s brain made it possible for the patient to produce vowels ...

Don’t you just love it when simply eating something tasty helps you fight and prevent disease? Researchers from the John Innes Centre in Norwich, U.K. have genetically modified a tomato so that in addition to having a ravishing purple hue, ...

An MIT scientist suggests young planets maintain a high temperature for several million years, much longer than previously assumed. This can make such planets easier to detect, because during this hot stage their brightness is not overshadowed by that of ...

Philips is currently developing a new technology, which will administer drugs into specific locations using Ultrasound-Activated Microbubbles. This new technology will increase the effectiveness and reduce the side effects of chemotherapy for several types of cancer. Dr. King Li (Credit: ...

University of Oxford astrophysicists suggest that the widely accepted theory regarding the existence of dark energy and its role in the accelerated expansion of the universe is wrong. The alternative explanation they propose puts us in a special place in ...

Intel Corporation has recently announced the Intel Health Guide, a tablet-PC which offers management tools for health care professionals that treat patients with chronic conditions. The Health Guide represents Intel’s entry into a new category of personal health systems, and ...

NASA has recently accomplished the successful launch of the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) probe into orbit. The spaceship will be able to collect new data on solar wind. The research can also help scientist understand the way in which solar ...

Philips’ research division has developed a miniature pill that can administer drugs directly to specific places in the digestive tract. The new technology, named “iPill”, might enable new therapies for life-threatening disorders such as Crohn’s disease, colitis, and colon cancer, ...

A team of American astronomers discovered that two terrestrial planets underwent a collision only a few hundred thousand years ago. They were studying what was presumably a very dusty main sequence star in an attempt to determine its age. During ...