The Space Shuttle Endeavour, which launched two days ago, is scheduled to dock at the International Space Station today (November 16th) at 4:04 PM CST. The main goal of the mission, called STS-126, is to prepare the station for long ...

A shocking development on the battle with AIDS front: a patient from Berlin has been AIDS free for two years after having a bone marrow transplant to cure his leukaemia. This lucky recovery may shed further light on AIDS and ...

Dr. Houssam Toutanji, a professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, has recently published an article which deals with a concept of creating concrete structures on the lunar surface without the use of water. Since regular concrete requires water, ...

It is well known that cardiovascular diseases are the number one mortality cause in the western world. The current treatment using stents is not foolproof. Now, an Israeli Company, BIOrest, has developed a medication which can make recovery from the ...

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics have detected what seems to be a magnetar. What makes this discovery unique is that the object observed emitted radiation in the visible part of the spectrum, not in the x-ray ...

An international team of astronomers, led by UCSB and Stanford astronomers, captured the collision of two galaxy clusters using the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. Like the Bullet Cluster collision detected two years ago, this collision supports ...

NASA’s recent tests of the lunar rover have taken the vehicle to its limits. Since the moon has such a harsh environment, NASA is taking all the measures possible to make sure the new rover will be prepared, such as ...

Researchers at the College of Agricultural Sciences at Pennsylvania State University in State College, Pennsylvania and at the Saga Ceramic Laboratory in Saga, Japan have developed a new ceramic material that may make microwave cooking faster and more energy efficient. ...

A new study, co-authored by Australian and American institutes, predicts that microbicides currently being developed to prevent HIV infection in women could lead to enhanced HIV drug resistance, and offer more protection to men. These predictions are based on a ...

The “Armadillo Aerospace” team was declared the winner of Level One of the 2008 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge, which took place at Las Cruces International Airport in New Mexico last Saturday. The winning team was led by non other ...