Quantum Sized Transistors for Luxury and Exotic Cars
Engineers at the University of Rochester have created uniform silicon quantum dots-molecule-sized crystals of silicon that could someday offer computer…
Secret To Mass Extinction Events Uncovered
Some 34 million years ago, almost 90 percent of the tiny, shell-bearing sea creatures living along the U.S. Gulf Coast…
Light Shed On How The Brain ‘Thinks’
Bioengineers at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, taking Plato’s concept of reality and illusion into the world of robots, have…
Spoilt In Space
American astronauts and mission control personnel who participated in missions to the Mir space station tended to be less happy…
Planets Lacking A Central Star Discovered
Scientists have discovered 18 planet-like objects, drifting free of any central star, in a region of the Orion constellation. If…
New Evidence That Garlic Protects Against Cancers
Garlic might not make breath smell like springtime in the Alps, but it can help protect against stomach and colorectal…
Earthquakes Still Threaten The Central United States
The threat of large earthquakes striking the New Madrid seismic zone remains all too real for people in St. Louis,…
Gene Therapy Reverses Effects Of Parkinson’s Disease
Researchers at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center, Chicago, and Lausanne, Switzerland, have successfully used gene therapy to reverse the anatomical, cellular…