“Slave” Bacteria To Carry Out Useful Tasks Within Humans

" The team is proposing that thousands of what it calls as biologically-derived robots or “biobots” or minicells would have microscopic features required on microprocessors. These gene chips would be remotely controlled to do different tasks, including, synthesis, repair,...

Stephen Hawking may Leave Britain, Settle in Canada

Stephen Hawking, the famous theoretical physicist whose work in quantum mechanics and black hole theory, amongst other things, is considering moving to Canada. The news comes after Hawking lashed out at the British government for $160 million worth of cuts in science funding...

Stephen Hawking urges new era of space conquest

""In a way, the situation is like Europe before 1492. People might well have argued that it was a waste of money to send Columbus on a wild goose chase," the British scientist was quoted by AFP as saying at Georgetown Washington University."Yet the discovery of the new world...

Shrinking Kilogram Bewilders Physicists

"Physicist Richard Davis of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Sevres, southwest of Paris, says the reference kilo appears to have lost 50 micrograms compared with the average of dozens of copies."The mystery is that they were all made of the same material,...