With the recent unveiling of Scaled Composite’s SpaceShipOne, entrepreneurial efforts to crack the commercial human spaceflight market are moving ahead full-throttle. Along with that project, many private rocketeers are eager to break the technical and bureaucratic bonds that hold back low-cost, reusable space transportation.

“There’s a dawning realization that has come over a lot of us. […]

Researchers at the Univeristy of Rome are developing an electronic nose that can sniff out cancer by sampling people’s breath. The instrument uses sensors that respond to the presence of chemical compounds in the patient’s breath. For example, lung cancer patients exhale alkanes and benzene derivatives which the electronic nose will try to detect. The […]