Mark Hoffman : Science World Report

May 16, 2013 07:50 PM EDT

New Radio Telescope in South Africa Observed Giant Outbursts From Neutron Star

The first scientific results using the new Karoo Array Telescope (KAT-7) in South Africa, the pathfinder radio telescope for the $3 billion global Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project, have been published by an international team of astronomers this week.

May 16, 2013 06:13 PM EDT

Physics Achieve What Alchemy Could Not, Turning Lead Into Gold (Infographic)

The legendary feat of turning lead into gold was actually impossible by alchemic means, even with the possession of the magical philosophers stone - except if they actually used the same high-tech machinery that is used today to actually make it happen. You just need a special nuclear reactor or a p...

May 16, 2013 04:51 PM EDT

Clinical Study Shows Medicinal Plant Kava Effective Against Anxiety Disorders, Increases Sex Drive

A clinical study by an Australian team found strong evidence that the medicinal plant Kava, found in the South Pacific region, significantly reduces the symptoms of people suffering anxiety, and as a positive side-effect also increases the sex drive in women.

May 15, 2013 05:19 PM EDT

Stealth Drone X-47B Launched From Aircraft Carrier

The stealth fighter-bomber drone X-47B, as of now just a technology demonstrator, was successfully catapulted from the flight deck of an aircraft carrier this week and thus becomes the first carrier-capable unmanned aircraft.

May 15, 2013 04:08 PM EDT

Rarest Element on Earth Measured For First Time at CERN

Scientists artificially created isotopes of the radioactive element astatine, which only occurs in trace amounts naturally, in the CERN laboratory to analyze it. The international team of physicists at the radioactive-beam facility ISOLDE now succeeded to measure the ionization potential of the rare...

May 15, 2013 02:21 PM EDT

Broadband Internet From Space Extended With Tuesday's Satellite Launch

The Eutelsat 3D* telecommunications satellite was successfully launched by ILS from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, using a Proton launch vehicle. Thales Alenia Space is the program prime contractor on behalf of Eutelsat Communications, one of the world's leading providers of fixed satellite ...

May 14, 2013 11:59 PM EDT

New Cellular Oxygen Probe Helps to Better Understand Cell Death

The ability to measure concentrations of oxygen inside living human cells is a key requirement to help advance our understanding and treatment of a range of serious medical conditions.

May 14, 2013 11:41 PM EDT

A New Weapon in The Fight Against Cancer

A group of European research partners attempted to tackle the difficult task of finding a way to detect and capture 'circulating tumour cells' (CTCs), a crucial task in the fight against cancer, and succeeded.

May 14, 2013 06:16 PM EDT

Scientists Made a Tiny Self-Powered Biodevice Swimming Inside of Body

Bioelectronic devices have huge scientific and practical importance for basic science as well as for possible applications in medicine, the high-tech industry, the military, etc. Scientists are working on the integration of biomaterials with electronic elements, such as electrodes, chips and transis...

May 14, 2013 05:28 PM EDT

Germanium Lasers Are Possible, Important Element of Future Photonic Computers

Good news for the computer industry: Swiss researchers have managed to make germanium suitable for lasers, which is important to eventually enable microprocessor components to communicate using light, essentially becoming much faster photonic computers.

May 14, 2013 02:39 PM EDT

Medicinal Plants Produce Neuroprotective Compounds Also Effective Against Cancer

Many medicinal plants contain compounds that are now scientifically proven to be effective against many diseases, including cancer and central nervous system disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease. That's why an European research project scoured the tissues of two wild flowering plant...

May 13, 2013 09:23 PM EDT

Influenza Virus Genome Even More Adaptable Than Thought

The influenza virus has an amazing inherent ability to mutate, thereby changing its properties and its pathogenicity. European researchers have discovered that sequence variations in the virus genome alter virus pathogenicity by affecting the function of the virus genome itself.