A research team led by Paolo Macchiarini, MD, PhD at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden has successfully transplanted a regenerated esophagus into a rat using a bioreactor developed by Harvard Apparatus…

 A review of a dozen popular websites found that information on colorectal cancer is too difficult for most lay people to read and doesn't address the appropriate risks to and concerns of…

Live electronic music is an oxymoron. Clearly if you have hired Paris Hilton as a deejay, you are not hiring her because she is any sort of keen ear. If she never showed up, the music would go…

In 2017, the British will introduce a new coin that should be difficult to counterfeit.  The last time a Queen Elizabeth sat on the throne they tried the same thing, to deter “divers evil…

A new tabletop display has a personal screen made from a curtain of mist. It allows users to move images around and push through the fog-screens and onto the display. MisTable, led by Professor…

On the less glamorous side of space exploration, there's the more practical problem of waste — in particular, what to do with astronaut pee. But rather than ejecting it into space, scientists are…

Four young men who have been paralyzed for years achieved groundbreaking progress — moving their legs. Writing in the journal Brain, the researchers from the University of Louisville, UCLA and the…

Researchers have developed a system allowing neurophysiologists to share raw data with each other, something they hope will generate new discoveries in the field. The first type of data they…

The 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, where a group of gunmen killed 165 and injured 304 people, the May 2012 shooting of five people by a gunman in Seattle and the recall of four million cars by Toyota…

Two things send our Uncanny Valley creepiness meter straight to red - realistic robots that flirt and anything that laughs.  Realistic laughing is actually not trivial. We see it in real life,…