Opioids before surgery means higher costs, more problems afterward, U-M study finds
Credit: University of Michigan ANN ARBOR, MI - Surgery patients often go home from the hospital with a prescription for ...
Six weeks left to register for The International Liver CongressTM 2017
The 52nd Annual Congress of The European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL), is being held from 19-23 ...
FRED database gathers root traits to advance understanding of below-ground plant ecology
Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory/Dept. of Energy March 9, 2017--Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) scientists have released a new global, ...
Guiding light: Sandia creates 3-D metasurfaces with optical possibilities
Credit: (Illustration courtesy of Sandia National Laboratories) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Metamaterials don't exist in nature, but their ability to make ...
Using nature to build nanomachines
Credit: Osaka University Flagella are tiny rotary motors that move bacteria. A research team led by Keiichi Namba, professor at ...
Could fast radio bursts be powering alien probes?
Credit: M. Weiss/CfA The search for extraterrestrial intelligence has looked for many different signs of alien life, from radio broadcasts ...
Sagan Award goes to committee chaired by Carnegie’s Alan Dressler
Credit: Carnegie Institution for Science Pasadena, CA--Over 20 years ago, Carnegie astronomer emeritus Alan Dressler chaired the Association of Universities ...
Free lung-cancer screening in the Augusta area finds more than double the cancer rate of previous screenings
Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (March 9, 2017) - The first year of free lung cancer screening in the Augusta, ...
Songs that make robots cry
Credit: Osaka University Music, more than any art, is a beautiful mix of science and emotion. It follows a set ...
Innovate Indiana Fund invests in early-stage payment-fraud analytics company
INDIANAPOLIS -- A high-tech company that detects payment-card fraud using machine learning and data analytics will be able to launch ...
NASA examines the soaking from ex-tropical Cyclone Enawo exiting Madagascar
Loading video... Credit: Credits: NASA/JAXA, Hal Pierce NASA's Aqua satellite observed Ex-Tropical Cyclone Enawo leaving Madagascar, while rainfall data from ...
University of South Carolina discovery of widespread platinum may help solve Clovis people mystery
Credit: South Carolina Institute for Archaeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina No one knows for certain why the Clovis ...
Shale gas production: Views from the energy roller coaster
Boulder, Colorado, USA - Geoscientists from the Northeastern and North-Central U.S. and beyond will convene in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on 19-21 ...
The researchers discovered an unexpected link between cancer and autism
Credit: Turku Centre for Biotechnology The researchers from Turku Centre for Biotechnology discovered an unexpected link between cancer and autism ...
New England Journal of Medicine publishes long-term results of Gleevec®
(Oregon Health & Science University) Today the New England Journal of Medicine published results from a nearly 11-year follow-up study, ...
Hormonal contraceptives and hair dyes increase breast cancer risk
In her recent doctoral dissertation, researcher Sanna Heikkinen from the University of Helsinki and Finnish Cancer Registry evaluates the contribution ...
Innovative technique greatly increases sensitivity of DNA sequencing
Toronto (March 9, 2017) - OICR researchers, together with international collaborators, have invented a technique to avoid a major problem ...
Canada continues to punch above its weight in the field of regenerative medicine
Credit: Council of Canadian Academies A new workshop report, Building on Canada's Strengths in Regenerative Medicine, released today by the ...
New material helps record data with light
Credit: ITMO University Russian physicists with their colleagues from Europe through changing the light parameters, learned to generate quasiparticles - ...
Rabbits’ detached retina ‘glued’ with new hydrogel
Credit: 2017 Takamasa Sakai. A newly developed elastic gel administered in liquid form and shown to turn jellylike within minutes ...
