Brooke Miller : Science World Report

Aug 11, 2012 06:13 AM EDT

Mars Curiosity to Receive Brain Transplant

After successful landing on Mars the Curiosity rover has been capturing images of regions we have never explored. The Curiosity will spend first weekend on Mars transitioning to software that is better suited for the task rover will venture for its mission. A few transitions it will undergo are driv...

Aug 11, 2012 06:07 AM EDT

Unusual Strong Summer Storm over Arctic

The coast of Alaska witnessed something strange on the August 5. An unusually strong storm formed off the coast was tracked to the centre of the Arctic Ocean, where it dissipated after several days. It was on August 6 that NASA's Aqua satellite captured the natural color mosaic image with the Modera...

Aug 11, 2012 06:04 AM EDT

Talon Gets Approval of FDA to Treat Rare Leukemia

The Food and Drug Administration has approved Talon Therapeutics Marqibo treatment to treat adults with a rare form of blood cancer and bone marrow cancer, PPhiladelphia chromosome negative acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Aug 10, 2012 06:58 AM EDT

Engineers Develop Flexible Robot with Earthworm like Movement

Taking inspiration from nature once again, the researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a earthworm like robot called 'Meshworm' that is developed from soft materials into a meshlike tube that crawls across surfaces by contracting segments of its body, much like an ear...

Aug 10, 2012 06:28 AM EDT

NASA Moon Lander Prototype Explodes During Test Flight

After the successful landing of Mars rover about 150 million miles away, NASA is faces a failure when it's experimental 'green' lander crashed during its first free-flight test on August 9.

Aug 10, 2012 06:01 AM EDT

Mars Curiosity Sends Images with 360 Degree Color View

NASA's Curiosity rover vehicle has sent the first images captured from the color mast camera, or Mastacm. These images were received by the scientists at the NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

Aug 10, 2012 05:50 AM EDT

Benefits of Statins Outweigh Diabetes Risk

Patients with a risk factor for diabetes are more likely than others to develop the disease when taking Statin, a popular cholesterol-lowering drug. An analysis published Thursday in the medical journal Lancet suggests that the benefits of Statin in preventing heart disease still outweighs the risk.

Aug 10, 2012 05:47 AM EDT

Week Long Speech Therapy May Improve Stuttering

Nearly 5 percent of children and 1 percent of adults suffer with the problem of stuttering. It is more common among children between the ages of two and five, where they develop some form of stuttering. It can last from several weeks to several years.

Aug 10, 2012 05:44 AM EDT

Less Sleep in Sandpipers Leads to More Offspring: Study

You might not be able to do without sufficient sleep but male pectoral sandpipers can go more than a fortnight with hardly any sleep, the most extreme case of uninduced sleep deprivation known in any animal.

Aug 09, 2012 06:42 AM EDT

Kenyan Fossils Shed Light on New Human Species

The discovery of skull fossils in Kenya, east of Lake Turkana support the existence of a human ancestor first suggested in the 1970s, shedding light on the origins of modern people. The discovery confirms that there were two additional species of our genus 'Homo' living alongside our direct human an...

Aug 09, 2012 06:40 AM EDT

Berlin Heart Device Provides Life-Saving "Bridge" for Young Children

A new study brings hope for hundreds of babies born with heart failure each year. The study, led by Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), projected how a tiny heart pump that maintains blood flow in babies and small children with serious heart failure, proved to be effectiv...

Aug 09, 2012 06:32 AM EDT

Hair-Loss Drug Users with Side-Effects Prone to Depression

Men developing persistent sexual side effects while on finasteride (Propecia), a drug commonly used for male-pattern hair loss, have a high prevalence of depressive symptoms and suicidal thoughts.