Cancer researchers claim 'extraordinary results' using T-cell therapy

By The Guardian

This is unprecedented’ says researcher after more than half of terminally ill blood cancer patients experienced complete remission in early clinical trials

Scientists are claiming “extraordinary” success with engineering immune cells to target a specific type of blood cancer in their first clinical trials.

Among several dozen patients who would typically have only had months to live, early experimental trials that used the immune system’s T-cells to target cancers had “extraordinary results”.

The danger os trusting robots

By BBC News

As robots enter our home, they may steal secrets about your life that you don't want to share, argue two experts in robotics law and the philosophy of technology.

Look no hands: Self-driving cars on a road near you?

By BBC News

Close your eyes and I'll take you there is what they sang in the musical, West Side Story. Fifty-eight years later, that proposition is the promise of the 21st Century automobile.

Aurora found around brown dwarf beyond our Solar System

By BBC News

An aurora has been spotted outside our Solar System for the first time, scientists report. An international team detected the light display around a brown dwarf about 18 light years away in the Lyra constellation.

Scientists discover 12 new potential Earth-like planets

By The Washington Post

The latest update from NASA's Kepler space telescope — designed to spot distant exoplanets — adds more than 500 new possible planets to the fray. That's in addition to the 4,175 planets already found by Kepler.

And of those 500 new potential planets, scientists say, a dozen could be remarkably Earth-like. That means they're less than twice as large as Earth, are potentially rocky and are at the right distance from their host stars to harbor liquid water.

Scientists believe there’s other life in the universe. Why haven’t we found it yet?

By The Washington Post

“The universe is apparently bulging at the seams with the ingredients of biology.”

So says Geoffrey Marcy, an astronomer at the University of California at Berkeley and a participant in Stephen Hawking’s $100 million search for alien life, announced on Monday.

Marcy isn’t the only person who thinks so. Frank Drake, chairman emeritus of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute, came up with an equation in 1961 for calculating the abundance of alien civilizations capable of communicating with us.