The contract for largest cryogenic plant (cryoplant) infrastructure ever built was signed in Dec 2012 by the ITER organization. The EUR 83 million Liquid Helium Plant is needed to cool the massive superconducting magnet coils, and other elements, of the experimental fusion reactor ITER.
The last 15 years have been a period of declining cancer screening rates among the US population, with severe implication for the future health, according to a study published on Dec. 27 by the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. The study by lead author Tainya Clarke, M.P.H., research as...
A picture from half-lit Mars, shot by the European Space Agency's Mars Express probe which is orbiting the red planet since 2003, was the first transmission to the new deep-space satellite tracking station in Malargüe, Argentina, which completes a network of ESA tracking stations around the globe.
Archaeologists announced this week that they have found a 2,750-year-old temple in Israel, close to Jerusalem, filled with pottery and clay figures which might have been the site of a ritual cult.
A combination of capacitors with a new element called memristor, currently under development, will allow the construction of computational elements that work with neuron-like spikes, miniaturized on a chip. The authors of a study published in "Nature Materials" in December describing such a device n...
German researchers just published a study that shows statistically that people who constrain themselves and don't express anger live on average 2 years shorter than individuals who do.
Nicaragua's biggest volcano San Cristobal is erupting right now, but not in an explosive way. Only a rather small area around the volcano is potentially threatened, and the government declared a yellow alert for an area of 5 sqare kilometers around the volcano. Still, many villagers have been ordere...
Virtually more naked: Female avatars expose substantially more skin than males in the virtual world of Second Life, according to research just published in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Matthieu Guitton and colleagues from Laval University, Canada.
Easy and fast to do retina scans could in the future help to diagnose and monitor Multiple Sclerosis. The test, called Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) scan, can show how fast a patients nervous system disease is progressing and takes just a few minutes per eye and can be performed at a general pr...
A new kind of photovoltaic cell based on sheets of flexible graphene coated with a layer of nanowires have been produced for the first time by MIT researchers, but a caveat is lower efficiency in first examples.
Marijuana use of teens was statistically linked to psychosis, while also finding teens with preexisting psychotic issues to be more likely to consume pot in later years, according to a new study from researchers in the Netherlands.
Good news is all around this past week. Firstly, the world did not come to a shattering end on December 21 as some said an ancient Mayan calendar predicted, and secondly, NASA said that Asteroid 2011 AG5 is likely to miss Earth in 2040.
