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Studies and Analyses

Stopping Clinical Trials Early Often Exaggerates Treatment Effects

The authors of the study — published in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association — recommend that researchers resist pressures to…

Earth Sciences

New Dinosaur from Utah Named for Vanished Explorer

Until now, Utah’s red rocks were known only for a few scattered bones and dinosaur footprints. However, discovery of a remarkably preserved partial skeleton is…

Medical Engineering

ESC supports 'appropriate' use of nuclear imaging technology

Following the recent publications (1,2,3) highlighting potential dangers of ionising radiation resulting from imaging testing, the ESC experts feel that it is…

Life & Chemistry

New Protein Test Could Transform Alcohol Use Detection

“The challenge in alcohol abuse as opposed to substance abuse — things like cocaine or heroin or PCP — is that alcohol is a perfectly legal substance for…

Information Technology

Laser Security Innovations: Protecting the Internet from Hackers

A British computer hacker equipped with a “Dummies” guide recently tapped into the Pentagon. As hackers get smarter, computers get more powerful and national…

Studies and Analyses

New Insights on Facial Aging Beyond Cosmetic Procedures

Facelifts and other wrinkle-reducing procedures have long been sought by people wanting to ward off the signs of aging, but new research suggests that it takes…

Health & Medicine

High Blood Pressure Linked to Better Prognosis in Chest Pain

High blood pressure is usually associated with poor prognoses in heart disease. But that means blood pressure monitored at rest. The new findings show that it…

Health & Medicine

New Theory Links Protein Deficiency to Down Syndrome Therapies

But a recent study reveals that just the opposite could be true – that a deficiency of a protein in the brain of Down syndrome patients could contribute to the…

Life & Chemistry

Targeting Vascular Disease Linked to Cancer Gene Mutation

Scientists from the Indiana University School of Medicine found that the mutation that causes neurofibromatosis type 1 disease leads to arterial inflammation…

Earth Sciences

Tropical Storm 02W: High Surf and Swells Impact Guam, Micronesia

Tropical Storm 02W is moving farther away from Yap state and into open waters of the Southern Pacific Ocean today, but it's leaving rough waters behind. At…

Environmental Conservation

MIT and Korea’s Portable Water Desalination Innovation

A new approach to desalination being developed by researchers at MIT and in Korea could lead to small, portable desalination units that could be powered by…

Earth Sciences

NASA's Aqua Satellite sees a tight Tropical Storm 21S

At 900 UTC (5 a.m. EDT) today, March 23, Tropical Cyclone 21S was located about 505 miles west of Cocos Island near 12.9 degrees South latitude and 88.3…

Materials Sciences

New Spintronics Material Enhances Next-Gen Microelectronics

As the electronics industry works toward developing smaller and more compact devices, the need to create new types of scaled-down semiconductors that are more…

Studies and Analyses

Binge drinking doesn't affect next-day student test-taking

The study, which appears in the April 2010 edition of the journal Addiction, was conducted by Jonathan Howland, professor of community health sciences at BUSPH…

Earth Sciences

Greenland Ice Sheet Mass Loss Revealed on Northwest Coast

Led by the Denmark Technical Institute's National Space Institute in Copenhagen and involving the University of Colorado at Boulder, the study indicated the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Lab-On-A-Chip Innovation: Moveable Channels for Liquid Transport

As just published as the cover story in “Lab on a Chip,” in “Virtual electrowetting channels: electronic liquid transport with continuous channel…

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