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Japan has launched a new rocket that it hopes will be a less expensive and more efficient way of sending satellites into space.

A diagram of one of the group's experimental setups shows a copper plate that can be heated using a torch underneath it, to study the effect of temperature on the process. On top of the plate, an apparatus consisting of two reservoirs separated by a silicon structure that has a single carbon nanotube on top of it. When a power source is connected to the electrodes (the wires extending up from the device), charged molecules (ions) from one of the reservoirs can pass through the tube, and its progress can be monitored using a scanning electron microscope.

These images show the retention of doxorubicin and ND-DOX in brain tissue, with light microscopic images (upper rows) and fluorescence images detecting fluorescence generated from doxorubicin (lower rows). The images show the distribution of unmodified doxorubicin and ND-DOX after convection-enhanced delivery (CED) at 6, 16, 24 and 72 hours.

Artist's concept of NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft.

By binding multiple molecules of Daunorubicin with nanodiamonds, scientists from NUS and UCLA managed to boost the delivery of the drug to leukemic cells and retain the drug within the cells to combat the cancer.

This image illustrates how researchers use an airbrush to grow vertically aligned carbon nanofibers. Click to enlarge.

Solar Flares captured by GOES 15 SXI.

With the help of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered that what was thought to be a large asteroid called Don Quixote is in fact a comet.

The hope is that through building intelligent machines, we can better understand ourselves.