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Orange Juice is Good for Brain

Drinking orange juice could help improve brain function in elderly people, according to new research from the University of Reading. The study saw a group of 37 healthy adults (mean age 67 years) consuming 500ml…

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Philips establishes alliance with MIT

Company moves R&D headquarters to Cambridge and establishes a five-year, $25 million research alliance. [caption id="attachment_4268" align="alignright" width="300"] Henk van Houten, global head of Philips Research, and Associate Provost Karen GleasonPhoto Credit: Dominick Reuter[/caption] (Cambridge,…

High-school student wins prize for ice cube experiment

High-school student Arthur Admiraal has been awarded the prestigious Hugo van Woerden Prize by the Royal Netherlands Association for Meteorology and Astronomy (KNVWS). He has been honoured for an experiment he performed in the Large Diameter…

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May 13, 1992, Record-Setting Spacewalk on Shuttle Endeavour’s…

[caption id="attachment_4238" align="alignright" width="300"] Image Credit: NASA[/caption] On May 13, 1992, following the successful capture of the Intelsat VI satellite, three astronauts continue moving the 4.5 ton communications satellite into the space shuttle Endeavour's cargo bay.…