New system uses nanodiamonds to deliver chemotherapy drugs directly to brain tumors

These images show the retention of doxorubicin and ND-DOX in brain tissue, with light microscopic images (upper rows) and fluorescence...
Team Attempts to Restore Communications

Artist's concept of NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft.
Take a virtual tour of Vesta with new high resolution Atlases
Tiny diamonds to boost treatment of chemoresistant leukemia: Novel discovery by scientists from NUS and UCLA enhances delivery and retention of leukemia drug, paving the way for nanodiamonds to be used for chemotherapeutics

By binding multiple molecules of Daunorubicin with nanodiamonds, scientists from NUS and UCLA managed to boost the delivery of the drug to...
Airbrushing Could Facilitate Large-Scale Manufacture of Carbon Nanofibers

This image illustrates how researchers use an airbrush to grow vertically aligned carbon nanofibers. Click to enlarge.
DSCOVR Mission Moves Forward to 2015 Launch

Solar Flares captured by GOES 15 SXI.
Comet Found Hiding in Plain Sight

With the help of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered that what was thought to be a large...
New center to better understand human intelligence, build smarter machines: NSF awards $25 million to MIT-based center to advance brain understanding

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