



Many standard antibiotics and anti-cancer drugs block the enzymes that snip the kinks and knots out of DNA - DNA tangles are lethal to cells - but the drugs are increasingly encountering resistant bacteria and tumours…
Solar physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, have captured for the first time the collision of a comet with the sun…
Efforts to extend the life of structures and reduce repair costs have led engineers to develop 'smart materials' that have self-healing properties, but many of these new materials are difficult to commercialise. A new self-healing concrete developed and tested by a graduate student at the University of Rhode Island, however, may prove to be cost-effective…
Ensuring access to healthy, affordable foods is a top priority in tackling the obesity epidemic in the United States. Over the course of the last six months, the Institute of Medicine, United States Department of Agriculture, The White House and First Lady Michelle Obama have taken an interest in improving access to affordable and nutritious foods…
An estimated 223 trillion cubic feet (tcf) (mean estimate) of undiscovered, technically recoverable natural gas are in the Nile Delta Basin Province, located in the Eastern Mediterranean region…
Kepler discovers its first five exoplanets
Astronomers find super-Earth