Renting a taxi, or buying a ticket for boarding an airplane, is something that surprises no one. In short, it is very likely to happen with the manned spaceflights of NASA. The space agency is undergoing difficult times. Therefore, to use private companies for its manned missions is by no means ruled out. If so, it's as if NASA astronauts would travel in taxis.

Alicia Rivera | 9 March 2010

The economic hardship and lack of clear objectives in the space race is causing a substantive discussion in the United States. Back to the moon is no longer a priority. And human spaceflights until now forbidden for private enterprise, are also under review. All waiting for the new materials and technologies to regain the initiative.

Malén Ruiz de Elvira |16 February 2010

The United Kingdom has recently announced its incorporation to the race to obtain elements from human blood derived from stem cells, one of the most promising lines of investigation in the short term in this field. With a multimillion effort, sponsored amongst other institutions by the Wellcome Trust, the project will centre around identifying human embryos with few cells which have the O negative group; in other words, universal donors.

Malen Ruiz de Elvira | 23 april 2009