New research, led by Professor Mark Kendall, from UQ Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, demonstrates that a vaccine delivered by a Nanopatchï induces a similarly protective immune response as a vaccine delivered by needle …

The first images of NASAs Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) have been revealed, astonishing heliophysicists with their brilliant clarity. Launched Feb. 11, 2010, SDO is the most advanced spacecraft ever designed to study the sun and …

THE OFFICIAL EARTH DAY 2010 CAMPAIGN – April 22, 2010. Forty years after the first Earth Day, the world is in greater peril than ever. While climate change is the greatest challenge of our time, …

The scaffold protein Ste5 directly controls a switch-like mating decision in yeast. Evolution has resulted in numerous innovations that allow organisms to increase their fitness by choosing particular mating partners, including secondary sexual characteristics, behavioural …

Teenagers with acne should like this concept: a nano-bomb, containing a coconut oil compound, that directly attacks the bacteria that cause acne. The new smart delivery system developed by a researcher at UC San Diego …

Masaru Emoto (born July 22, 1943) is a Japanese author known for his claim that if human speech or thoughts are directed at water droplets before they are frozen, images of the resulting water crystals …

A rooftop webcam at the University of Wisconsin-Madison captured the final seconds of a fireball’s Wednesday, April 14 descent into the atmosphere. A fireball is a meteor, or “shooting star,” that emits a brilliant light …

The brains of shy or introverted individuals might actually process the world differently than their more extroverted counterparts, a new study suggests. About 20 percent of people are born with a personality trait called sensory …

The Male Brain: More Complex Than You Think. Despite all that old talk about Mars and Venus, men and women are much more biologically alike than not. But differences in the way our brains are …

Current Cart. The e~cart promises quite an electrifying experience! It’s a shopping trolley re-designed to be fitted with wheels that harness the kinetic energy, generated due to its motion. The sourced up energy is deposited …

Texas Pioneers Energy Storage in Giant Battery . Presidio, Texas, has one link to U.S. electrical power, stretching some 60 miles (100 kilometers) from Marfa in the high desert to the banks of the Rio …

Tanita to Release Sleep State Checker for Home Use. Tanita Corp will release a mat that enables to easily check the state of sleep at home in May 2010 in Japan. The mat, “Sleep Scan …

Scientists have found a new species of lizard that lives in the trees on the northern Philippines island of Luzon, according to media reports Wednesday. Dubbed Varanus bitatawa, the dragon-sized, fruit-eating lizard measures 6 feet …

Songbird’s DNA may shed light on human speech.  The zebra finch, a chatty little songbird that learns his speech from his father and passes it on to his offspring, has long been a model for …

Those Easter eggs may be good for you! Study shows chocolate reduces blood pressure and risk of heart disease. Easter eggs and other chocolate may be good for you – at least in small quantities …

People in developed nations are living in good health as much as a decade longer than their parents did, not because aging has been slowed or reversed, but because they are staying healthy to a …

Giving tomato breeders and ketchup fans something to cheer about, a Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) scientist and his colleagues at the Hebrew University in Israel have identified a gene that pushes hybrid tomato plants …

A More Sensitive Sensor.  Tel Aviv University pioneers sensor technology for industry using nano-sized carbon tubes more..Electro-mechanical sensors tell the airbag in your car to inflate and rotate your iPhone screen to match your position …