Common painkillers linked to heart failure
Image credit: Flickr/Gary H
Widely used prescription and non-prescription painkillers are associated with an increased risk of hospital admission for heart failure, according to a...
Scientists Find Evidence for Alternate Theory of How Life Arose
A new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) offers a twist on a popular theory for how life on Earth...
Alcohol Shown to Act in Same Way as Rapid Antidepressants
Can having a few drinks help people with clinical depression feel better?
Yes. At least in terms of biochemistry.
In a study published in the current...
ALMA Catches Stellar Cocoon with Curious Chemistry
This artist's impression shows the molecules found in a hot molecular core in the Large Magellanic Cloud using ALMA. This core is the first...
Promising Biomaterial to Build Better Bones with 3-D Printing
Cross-section of a 3-D printed adult human femur.Image Credit:Northwestern University
3-D printable ink produces a synthetic bone filler that induces bone regeneration
A Northwestern Engineering research...
‘Pandora’s Cluster’ Seen by Spitzer
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
This image of galaxy cluster Abell 2744, also called Pandora's Cluster, was taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope. The gravity of this galaxy...
Optical fiber transmits one terabit per second
TUM researchers (l-r) Fabian Steiner, Georg Böcherer, and Patrick Schulte with the statue of Claude Shannon, father of information theory.Credit: Denise Panyik-Dale/Alcatel-Lucent
Nokia Bell Labs,...
Dementia: Catching the memory thief
It's over a hundred years since the first case of Alzheimer's disease was diagnosed. Since then we've learned a great deal about the protein...
New insight into eye diseases
This image shows how transferred genes activate the stem cell properties of normally dormant retinal cells.Credit: Image courtesy of Yale University
Many diseases that lead...
Key to manufacturing more efficient solar cells
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In a discovery that could have profound implications for future energy policy, Columbia scientists have demonstrated it is possible to...
Epigenetic clock predicts life expectancy
UCLA geneticist Steve Horvath led a team of 65 scientists in seven countries to record age-related changes to human DNA, calculate biological age and...
