Researchers at Cardiff University have discovered a new type of killer T-cell that offers hope of a “one-size-fits-all” cancer therapy.
T-cell therapies for cancer - where immune cells are removed, modified and returned to the patient’s blood to seek and destroy cancer cells - are the latest paradigm in cancer treatments.
The most widely-used therapy, known as CAR-T, is personalised to...
Qianxi Robotic Catering Group, a unit under Chinese real estate giant Country Garden Holdings, has opened China's first fully automated restaurant in Guangzhou.
The diner, which the Guangdong province-based firm claims has 46 different types of robot and goes by the name Foodom, opened on Jan. 12. Robots welcome customers, cook their food, make their drinks, deliver their orders and...
The Moon has no breathable oxygen – which obviously presents a hurdle for astronauts. There’s only so much we can take with us, so figuring out how to produce it there is crucial. Now, ESA researchers have created a prototype device that can make oxygen out of the most common thing on the Moon – dirt.
Moondust – more officially...
Today, the Institute of Chemistry of Additives of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences conducts an event dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the January 20 tragedy, organized by the Primary Territorial Organization of the New Azerbaijan Party, the Free Trade Union, the Council of Women and the Council of Young Scientists and Specialists.
Opening the event with a moment of...
30 years have passed since 20 January tragedy – a heroic page of Azerbaijan people. In 1990, at night January 19 to 20, 1990, military units of the Soviet army committed an unprecedented massacre against civilian population in Baku city, who stood up to establish an independent state and gain its sovereignty. However, this bloody crime, people could not...
Bend, roll, twist, scrunch, fold, flex. These are terms we might use to describe a lithe gymnast doing a complex floor routine. But batteries?
Yet these are precisely the words the company Jenax in South Korea wants you to use when talking about its batteries. The Busan-based firm has spent the past few years developing J.Flex, an advanced lithium-ion battery...
This is the Zanco Tiny T2, a phone just a little bit bigger than your average USB memory stick. Its manufacturer claims it’s the smallest phone ever. It looks the part.
To start, the company claims the Zanco Tiny T2 only weighs 31 grams (1.09 ounces) and measures an absurdly small 2.4 x 1.18 x 0.65 inches.
Fully funded in Kickstarter...
The 16th International Zhoutykov Olympiad in physics, mathematics and computer science among schoolchildren was held in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Azerbaijani students won 1 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze medal in computer science, 2 silver and 2 bronze medals in mathematics and 1 bronze medal in physics.
Note that the gold medal in computer science won by Abutalib Namazov, an 11th grade...
Cybercriminals began to use a brand of sports clothing and footwear Adidas for attacks on users of the WhatsApp messenger. With reports of gifts from crooks are stealing usernames and passwords. This is stated in received by “Tape.ru” the message of the international antivirus company ESET.
According to experts, the scammers deceive victims via messages with the promise of gifts...
Microsoft has announced that it will no longer do security updates on Windows 7 starting tomorrow (14). Users of this operating system – which currently number nearly 440 million, as reported by Tech Radar – can migrate to Windows 10 Pro with a simple upgrade, but according to the company this is not the best strategy.
The developer advised users...