Discovery

American Scientist reported, a Japanese imaging company Canon has developed a self-contained blood sampler and test strip that does the job very simply. The device consists of an array of small needles about the size of the head of a toothbrush sealed behind a rubber membrane. The patient places his or her finger on the membrane [...]

Soap bubbles that collapse once clothes are clean could reduce the water needed during washing. A soap bubble is a very thin film of soap water. Their shape is a hollow, round ball, or sphere. They have a colorful surface. Soap bubbles do not last very long. Sometimes they break in the air. When they [...]

American Scientist reported, according to a new simulation, electrically charged dust can organise itself into DNA-like double helixes that behave in many ways like living organisms, reproducing and passing on information to one another. Gregor Morfill of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany, have built a computer simulation to model what happens [...]

On 6 August, the US Food and Drug Adminstration (FDA) approved Pfizer’s drug maraviroc, the first in a new class of HIV drugs designed to prevent the virus entering the immune system’s CD4 cells, American Scientist reported. The drug will only be given to people who have had “pharmacogenetic” testing to show that their type of [...]

American Scientist reported, researchers at the University of Nagoya in Japan have come up with a way to tell how well we drive for sure. The software system used in this method collects the data about the way we drive – our speed, distance from other vehicles, how often and how much we press the accelerator [...]

In the US, about 50,000 people bleed to death each year. This is one of common cause of accidental death. That’s why, there is a need to find a material that can quickly staunch the flow of blood from a wound. Then, Thomas Fischer and colleagues at the Francis Owen Blood Research Laboratory at the [...]

According to a new analysis of 20th century records, climate change has triggered three major shifts in the number of tropical storms that rise up in the North Atlantic. The first change came in 1905, starting a 25-year period with an average of 6.0 tropical storms or hurricanes per year. In 1931, the number jumped [...]

People live in the world that give them precious moments in life. There is a time when we meet the love of our life, when we win scholarship, when we first meet your husbands, even when we crashed in a car accident. A new study said that we have ability to recall emotional events, and [...]

Based on Nature Medicine (DOI: 10.1038/nm1618), stem cells may help repair damaged tissue after a heart attack, according to a team of American researchers. The study, which was done on mice, shows that stem cells play a limited, but significant role in repairing damaged hearts. However, it remains unclear whether it is heart cells that are [...]

American Scientist reported, two drinking incidents are listed in the report released by NASA on Friday. In one case, an astronaut warned that a fellow astronaut was too drunk to fly a T-38 trainer jet after their scheduled shuttle flight had been canceled. The other case involved a NASA astronaut flying to the International [...]