Disciplined and observational study of the natural world including, but not limited to: Biology, Physics, Chemistry, and Earth Science.
Quietly under construction since 2005, scientists from the University of Delaware in the U.S. backed by the National Science Foundation (NSF) are building the world largest “telescope” under hundreds of feet of Polar ice. The new instrument will help scientists ...
The Israeli company OrSense has developed a new non-invasive technology for monitoring blood glucose levels for diabetes. The new technology will completely eliminate the need to draw blood, an ordeal that millions of people suffering from this incurable disease have ...
A research team from Japan was able to store data on the DNA of a bacteria. Although this breakthrough doesn’t seem to have any immediate applications it might be an important step in the development of future biological computers. Biological ...
NASA’s next generation space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, is being displayed at the AAS annual meeting in Seattle, Washington. Despite the fact that the upcoming space telescope isn’t planned for launch until the mid 2013 the model currently ...
NASA recently released details on a unique rocket engine experiment concocted in the Mojave Desert earlier this year. Unlike most of NASA’s existing space rocket engines which use either liquid oxygen and hydrogen or solid chemicals the new engine called ...
A hundred times more energetic than a typical supernova, the death of an extremely massive star in the galaxy NGC 1260, some 240 million light years away from earth, was recently observed by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory as well as ...
Astronomers discovered the most Earth-like planet outside our Solar System. The newly discovered planet is only 50% larger than the Earth and scientist have speculated it might be capable of having liquid water. The Swiss, French and Portuguese scientists who ...
A team of researchers discovered the way a specific kind of bacterium can survive enormous levels of ionizing radiation including X-rays and gamma-rays. The team from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) was able to uncover the ...
In the last several years robots have entered more and more areas of our lives. One of these new areas is medical treatment and surgery in particular where the high precision and stability of the robot can prove to be ...
Charles Simonyi the head of Microsoft’s application software group became the fifth space tourist after blasting off to space on board the Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft on April 7, 2007. Simonyi, along with two Russian cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov, ...