Scientists at The University of Manchester hope a major breakthrough could lead to more effective methods for detoxifying dangerous pollutants like PCBs and dioxins. The result is a culminat... Read more
Increasingly small robots can carry out their functions even inside the human body. No, this isn’t a sci-fi dream. The technology is almost ready. However there is still one condition... Read more
Numerous other promising avenues exist for the fibre-top cantilever, such as minimally invasive surgery Scientist Davide Iannuzzi and his team have developed a method to place novel miniatur... Read more
Spinach and Nanodiamonds? Popeye, the comic book hero, swears by it as do generations of parents who delight their children with spinach. Of course, today it is known that the vegetable is n... Read more
Scientists have developed an “intelligent knife” that can tell surgeons immediately whether the tissue they are cutting is cancerous or not. In the first study to test the invent... Read more
Tissue engineering is making a huge impact in the world of science with artificial scaffold structures, in which new cells are encouraged to grow. This means that the nanostructure of tissue... Read more
Image via Wikipedia The European Research Council opens up its checkbook to fund Marco Dorigo‘s latest efforts to get networks and robots to mimic the highly efficient behavior of ant... Read more