Could water have been one of the planet-forming materials in the Solar System? Ilsedore Cleeves, an astrochemist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, conducted a study wherein she created a model that replicates Read More
Would a human traveling in a high-speed rocket age slower than a human on Earth? An international group of scientists collaborated over 15 years to prove this phenomenon, which Einstein termed ‘time dilation’ effect in his Read More
A joint team headed by Eran Segal and Eran Elinav of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot led a study that found links between the use of sugar substitutes such as saccharine and obesity. Read More
Researchers at Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering in Boston, Massachusetts, have developed a device that acts like the spleen to rid the body of infection and toxins. The artificial ‘biospleen’ uses a modified version Read More
Masayo Takahashi, an ophthalmologist at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CDB) in Kobe, is set to treat a human patient with induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells. iPS cells, unlike embryonic stem cells, are developed Read More
A zoologist at the Natural History Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen, Jean Just, discovered sea creatures in the Tasman Sea that cannot be classified into any known major phyla. These invertebrate creatures—now classified as Read More
Anton Zeilinger, a physicist at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, has developed a method of taking pictures using light that has not interacted with the object being photographed. Conventionally, an object is seen Read More
Samir Mitragotri, a chemical engineer at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his team demonstrated the use of ionic liquid salts in liquid form in treating skin infections. by killing bacteria and aiding antibiotics Read More
TKM-Marburg, a drug developed by pharmaceutical company Tekmira in Burnaby, Canada, proved effective in curing monkeys infected with Marburg virus, which is closely related to Ebola. The medicine worked even when it was administered days Read More
Latest findings suggest that Saturn’s rings originated around 4.4 billion years ago. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which has been orbiting Saturn since 2004, has measured the rate at which dust from outside the Saturn system is Read More