Following its last close flyby of Saturn’s moon Rhea, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured these raw,…
Month: March 2013
Pittsburgh’s leaky faucet: How aging sewers are impacting urban watersheds
Aging sewer systems are spilling a considerable amount of nitrogen into urban watersheds, diminishing both…
Discovery may explain how prion diseases spread between different types of animals
Medical researchers have made a discovery that may explain how prion diseases, like chronic wasting…
Closest star system found in a century
A pair of newly discovered stars is the third-closest star system to the Sun and…
Fewer adverse events with ‘double kissing’ crush stent than culotte
Patients with a type of coronary lesion linked with poor prognosis fared significantly better with…
New anti-clotting drug more effective than current treatment, study suggests
A new and experimental anti-clotting drug, cangrelor, proved better than the commonly used clopidogrel and…
Shock teams and ECMO save lives in massive STEMI
The use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, accompanied by mechanical CPR, in patients with massive myocardial…
Niacin therapy shows no benefits, has some harmful effects
A highly anticipated study evaluating a combination of the vitamin niacin with the anti-flushing agent…
Novel ‘ultra-deep de novo’ assembly solution for heterozygous genomes
Scientists have developed a novel assembly solution for facilitating heterozygous genomes research.
Nerve damage may underlie widespread, unexplained chronic pain in children
Investigators have described what may be a newly identified disease that appears to explain some…