Is nuclear power the answer to the energy crisis? Ian Sample explains how it works - and how we get the awful side-effects of bombs and waste
Planning is under way to reinvigorate a Mars sample return mission.
... researchers identified trends of vitamin B6 status in a sample of the United States population based on measures of ... colleagues studied 7,822 blood samples of men and women ages one-year and older ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has scooped up a little dirt, scientists said on Sunday, a first step towards sampling the Martian soil for ice -- and the potential for life.
Ian Sample: Reports of cancer cures have proved so many false dawns. So what might make this case of cloned T-cells different?
... 1,000 breast cancer tests from the troubled labs of Eastern Health in 2005 told the Cameron inquiry in St. John's Thursday that he had quickly noticed a troubling trend in the samples he received.
Ian Sample explains a new test to check on the viability of embryos used in IVF
BOSTON (Reuters) - An experimental process that snags lung
cancer cells from a blood sample could give doctors real-time
feedback on the most effective therapy, researchers reported on
Wednesday.
The next sample delivered to NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer (TEGA) will be ice-rich. A team of engineers and scientists assembled to assess TEGA after a short circuit ...
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander used its Robotic Arm to deliver a second sample of soil for analysis by the spacecraft's wet chemistry laboratory, data received from Phoenix on Sunday night confirmed.
Ian Sample: Even though I'm aware that my fertility is declining, I still don't want to have children with someone substantially younger
Space experts on Wednesday set a date of 2018 for launching the Mars Sample Return mission, billed as the most complex and costliest exploration of the Red Planet ever planned.
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander successfully used its rasp and scoop to collect samples of Martian ice.
... other national agencies. iMARS, which stands for the International Mars Architecture for the Return of Samples is a committee of the International Mars Exploration Working Group made up of scientists, ...
The latest activities of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander have moved the mission closer to analyzing a sample of material, possibly icy soil, from a hard layer at the bottom of a shallow trench beside the ...
