While 68 per cent of high-income countries have cardiac rehabilitation, only 23 per cent of…
Month: July 2014
New feathered predatory fossil sheds light on dinosaur flight
A new raptorial dinosaur fossil with exceptionally long feathers has provided exciting insights into dinosaur…
Four Lessons for Effective, Efficient Research in Health Care Settings
By taking into account the real-world constraints of the systems in which providers deliver care…
Unintended consequences of raising state math, science graduation requirements
Raising state-mandated math and science course graduation requirements (CGRs) may increase high school dropout rates…
New materials for future green tech devices
Thermoelectric devices, which convert heat to electricity and vice versa, can harness that wasted heat,…
Directly visualizing hydrogen bonds
Using a newly developed, ultrafast femtosecond infrared light source, chemists have been able to directly…
Understanding melanoma development
A new study shows how a genetic defect in a specific hormonal pathway may make…
‘Game theory’ model reveals vulnerable moments for metastatic cancer cells’ energy production
Cancer’s no game, but researchers are borrowing ideas from evolutionary game theory to learn how…
Brain responses to emotional images predict ptsd symptoms after Boston Marathon bombing
By using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging scans from before the attack and survey data from…
Removing disordered regions of shape-shifting protein explains how blood clots
Researchers used x-ray crystallography to publish the first image of prothrombin. The protein’s flexible structure…