British scientists have devised a way to guide armed white blood cells to attack tumours using tiny magnets, which could soon be used on patients. By Roger Highfield.
A genetic fingerprint that reveals the breast cancer patients who are at high risk of the deadly spread of the disease has been found, a discovery that also reveals a new target for treatments. By Roger Highfield.
The possibility that car drivers could one day wear a special cap to warn when they are showing dangerous lapses in concentration is raised today. By Roger Highfield.
The leading cause of heart disease and stroke has been linked for the first time to a person's diet and chemicals in the urine, reports Roger Highfield.
Are ultracapacitors the real deal, the breakthrough superbattery that will make electric vehicles common and provide the backup energy storage for wind and solar plants? Or is this just wishful thinking still, with the technology still years away and possibly
There's been tremendous controversy over using corn for vehicle fuel production. Critics say it drives up the cost of food for humans and livestock, a serious and real consideration. Proponents see it as a way to help wean ourselves off
In various astrophysical contexts, we analyze self-similar behaviours of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) evolution of a quasi-spherical polytropic magnetized gas under self-gravity with the specific entropy conserved along streamlines. In particular, this MHD model analysis frees the scaling parameter $n$ in the
In this paper, we initiate a new study of steady funnel-flow accretion onto strongly magnetized neutron stars, including a full treatment of shock generation.
In addition to buoyancy- and magnetic tension-driven instabilities, magnetic flux rings are also susceptible to an instability induced by the hydrodynamic drag force.
