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Drug-Eluting Stents Outperform Bare-Metal Stents in Heart Attacks

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University Medical Center, together with the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF), announced that its landmark…

Earth Sciences

Spring Fires’ Impact on Arctic Melting: POLARCAT Insights

The two-year international field campaign known as POLARCAT was conducted most intensively during two three-week periods last spring and summer and focused on…

Earth Sciences

Microfossils challenge prevailing views of the effects of 'Snowball Earth' glaciations on life

By analyzing microfossils in rocks from the bottom of the Grand Canyon, the authors have challenged the view that has been generally assumed to be correct for…

Studies and Analyses

Carbohydrate Restriction: A New Approach to Prostate Tumor Growth

“Previous work here and elsewhere has shown that a diet light in carbohydrates could slow tumor growth, but the animals in those studies also lost weight, and…

Environmental Conservation

Climate Change Threatens Hawaii’s Endangered Honeycreepers

As climate change causes temperatures to increase in Hawaii’s mountains, deadly non-native bird diseases will likely also creep up the mountains, invading most…

Health & Medicine

Future Cancer Care: Balancing Innovation and Affordability

When a cancer patient and his or her doctor discuss the value of a treatment option, the conversation usually centers on a consideration of the treatment's…

Materials Sciences

New Metal-Diamond Composites Transform Materials Science

Material scientists are developing composites which are made of dissimilar materials in order to be able to offer new customised application profiles….

Event News

SETAC Europe Explores Ecosystem Health Innovations in Gothenburg

Nanotechnology's impacts on the environment, risks from new pharmaceuticals, effects of contaminants at the molecular level, polar ecotoxicology, and the…

Automotive Engineering

EU Project Enhances Driver Experience with Nomadic Devices

The support functions could be traffic and incident information, actual speed limit, navigation and green driving support. The objective of the project is to…

Information Technology

iPhone – the work tool for sustainable factories of the future

Operators will always be online thanks to an iPhone attached to their protective clothing. This is the vision of researchers from Chalmers, the Volvo Group,…

Corporate News

Siemens Secures Major Order for Long-Product Casters

Siemens VAI Metals Technologies received a major order from SAIL (Steel Authority of India Limited) for the supply of four long-product casters to be installed…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA’s New Method to Discover Alien Oceans Revealed

“A 'pale blue dot' is the best picture we will get of an Earth-like extrasolar world using even the most advanced telescopes planned for the next couple…

Earth Sciences

Fast, Affordable Cyclone Forecasting for the Mediterranean

“Sensitivity studies are a low-cost and efficient way of establishing the best kinds of observation strategies”, Lorena Garcies, lead author of the study and a…

Business and Finance

Bank Risk Tool Fails to Address Market Fluctuations, Study Finds

The study finds that the tests used by regulators do not detect when VaRs inaccurately account for significant swings in the market, which is significant…

Health & Medicine

Researchers Advance Methods to Combat Parasite Infections

The new findings, available online and in an upcoming issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, demonstrate that a biochemical system that…

Medical Engineering

PET Scans Offer Early Treatment Insights for Breast Cancer

Using Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanning and a glucose analogue called FDG, a research team led by Hannah Linden, M.D. and David Mankoff M.D., of the…

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