Radboud University Medical Center

Safer drugs thanks to a new solution to a 150-year-old chemistry problem? Just like gloves, molecules come in so-called left-handed and right-handed versions. Until now, however, it could be determined only with great difficulty whether a certain molecule is right-handed or left-handed. In medicine, this would be a big step forward because, for example, the

Image by turkletom via Flickr Open the mobile phone application offered by a French real estate agency and point your phone at a building along the Champs-Élysées or some other street in Paris. Within seconds, you will see the property’s value per square meter, superimposed over a live image of the building streamed through the

Cellceutix believes it has found the Holy Grail in cancer research   . . . a compound that activates a tumor suppressor protein known as p53, long regarded as possibly holding the key to future cancer therapies. “Our Kevetrin drug reactivates p53 to its normal function of dictating whether to fix the cell or kill

It’s said that an instrument is only as good as the musician playing it, but it never hurts to give musicians a little help creating unique sounds. That’s why technology start-up ROLI recently unveiled a new type of instrument that blends the form of a standard piano with the electronic customization of a digital controller.

LaserMotive, a Kent, Wash., company specializing in delivering electric power via lasers, unveiled the first tethered vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft system powered by laser over optical fiber. InvisiTower, the new, portable system, can power virtually any multi-rotor helicopter indefinitely using laser power sent via fiber-optic cable, reveals a representative. InvisiTower enables a helicopter to stay in

In some cases, looking at a living cell under a microscope can cause it damage or worse, can kill it. Now, a new kind of microscope has been invented by researchers from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute that is able to non-invasively take a three dimensional look inside living cells with stunning results. The device

“This is a very cool mix of disciplines”   University of Nevada, Reno computer science engineering team Kostas Bekris and Eelke Folmer presented their indoor navigation system for people with visual impairments at two national conferences in the past two weeks. The researchers explained how a combination of human-computer interaction and motion-planning research was used

Robonaut is evolving. NASA and General Motors are working together to accelerate development of the next generation of robots and related technologies for use in the automotive and aerospace industries. Engineers and scientists from NASA and GM worked together through a Space Act Agreement at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to build a

Researchers at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a quantum communication chip that is 1,000 times smaller than current quantum setups, but offers the same superior security quantum technology is known for. Most leading security standards used in secure communication methods – from withdrawing cash from the ATM to purchasing goods online on