A French team has invented a prosthetic heart that may be able to replace the real thing in patients in need of heart transplants. The new device is not the first of its kind, but it may be the first with limited drawbacks. Further tests are required, but if all goes well this device could be available as early as 2013. Read more… continue reading...
Teams of scientists involved around the world celebrated with champagne as one of the most ambitious experiments ever conceived got successfully underway, with protons being fired around a 27-kilometer (17-mile) tunnel deep beneath the border of France and Switzerland in an attempt to unlock the secrets of the universe. continue reading...