A team of scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, headed by Dr. Eran Sharon, managed to harness non–Euclidian geometries in order to develop new structures that can be used in the biomedical and optical industries. The concept might be ...

A new MEMS based scanning technology offers a different possibility for conducting confocal microscopy imaging in confined sections of a living human body. Professor Rebecca Kortum Confocal microscopy is an imaging technique that offers high-resolution imaging of living tissues (in ...

A biosensor developed in Clemson University, South Carolina, funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, will be able to transmit information regarding blood lactate and glucose levels of a wounded soldier or of other injured patients. The biochip will be ...

The resistance of bacteria to antibiotics makes the bacteria increasingly dangerous. Bacteria are capable of changing their genes in a random manner, possibly creating new proteins that are resistant to certain types of antibiotics. The problem worsens when you consider ...

On August 8th, 2007, Space Shuttle Endeavour successfully lifted off the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The launch, the first for the Endeavour after almost five years following the Columbia Shuttle disaster, marks the beginning of the Space ...

Scientists discovered what seems to be the first conclusive evidence for water on an extrasolar planet. The discovery was made by French scientists using data from NASA’s Spitzer space telescope and was recently published in the scientific magazine Nature. In ...

Today, detecting cancer metastasis and remission is possible only when a sufficient amount of cancer cells can be found. Locating cancer cells in the blood indicates whether there is a chance of developing such metastasis or if the patient is ...

A design of a new type of astronaut suit is currently underway at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Dava Newman, Professor of Aeronautics, Astronautics and Engineering Systems at MIT is leading the “BioSuit” Project. The project is based on ...

Similar to its namesake, the Phoenix Mission raises from the ashes a spacecraft and instruments from two previous unsuccessful attempts to explore Mars: the Mars Polar Lander and the Mars Surveyor 2001 Lander. The Mars Polar Lander failed to return ...

The Bernholtz Prize for originality and creativity in practical research was recently awarded to Ido Bazelet from the Pharmaceutical School of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. Together with Ariel Munitz Bazelet is working on a project named RECEPTRA. The ...