The foreign exchange company Travelex, in collaboration with a team of scientists from the National Space Centre and the University of Leicester, recently unveiled a new revolutionary kind of currency created especially to be used in space. The Quasi Universal ...

Researchers from Cornell University have engineered micro-channels within a water-based gel that can act as a vascular system. The system can carry and deliver oxygen, sugar, proteins, and other growth factors to the growing tissue. The scientists designed the system ...

The first high definition image of Earth was recently taken by the Japanese Lunar explorer KAGUYA. The photograph was taken from a distance of 110,000 km– hundreds of times further away from Earth than any spaceship with similar capabilities had ...

The Innate immunity system constantly kills cancer cells inside our body. This is one of the reasons not all of us develop cancer. In collaboration between researchers from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the Ludwig Institute for ...

An oncologist from Michigan has devised a new approach to clinical medicine. Using DNA micro-array chips, Dr. Eric Lester analyzed gene expression profiles of tumors in patients with advanced incurable cancer. For each patient, he first identified certain genes associated ...

Space Shuttle Discovery was launched today from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 11:38 a.m. EDT, following a smooth countdown. STS 120 will deliver and install the new Harmony Space Module onto the International Space Station (ISS), completing the ...

Researchers report that sleep deprivation can double the chances of dying from a cardiovascular event. However, too much sleep appears to be even more dangerous for us, more than doubling the likelihood of dying from other causes. In a research ...

Scientists at Queen’s University in Belfast have developed a novel, more effective way to deliver drugs for the treatment of skin cancer. The scientists demonstrated that a needle-free jet injection of a drug used in the treatment of skin cancer ...

A European consortium has developed a vaccination against the avian H7N1 Influenza. The new vaccination achieved good results in clinical trials and has a high chance of being approved for clinical use. This new vaccine can save human and animal ...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is awarding the 2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Gerhard Ertl, a researcher at the Fritz-Haber Institute of the Max-Planck Society in Berlin. Ertl will receive the prize for his studies of chemical processes ...