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Credit: Credits: NASA A sensing technique that the U.S. military currently uses to remotely monitor the air to detect potentially...

Nuclear CSI: Noninvasive procedure could identify criminal nuclear activity

Credit: MU News Bureau Determining if an individual has handled nuclear materials, such as uranium or plutonium, is a challenge...

Have we found all the elements? (video)

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Nov. 1, 2016 -- Four elements have been added to the periodic table this...

Two-year results of the COLOR trial presented at TCT 2016

WASHINGTON - November 1, 2016 - Two-year results from COLOR, the first large-scale multicenter prospective study of its kind, found...

OPTIMISTIC study: Advance care planning in nursing homes challenging but critical

Credit: Indiana University Center for Aging Research INDIANAPOLIS -- The goal of advance care planning is to ensure that the...

Results from the PLATINUM DIVERSITY study presented at TCT 2016

WASHINGTON - November 1, 2016 - A dedicated stent study conducted exclusively in women and minority patients evaluated clinical outcomes...

NIST unveils forensic technique to measure mechanical properties of evidence

Credit: Delrio/NIST You may have seen it on CSI: The star examines hair from a crime scene and concludes its...

Tufts water diplomat awarded global prize for developing early warning system for cholera

Credit: Tufts University Shafiqul Islam, Sc.D., of Tufts University School of Engineering, has been awarded the 7th Prince Sultan Bin...

Does your mind jump around, stay on task or get stuck?

During downtime, some of us daydream while others might focus on a to-do list, or get stuck in a negative...

Results of ReACT Trial presented at TCT & published in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions

WASHINGTON - November 1, 2016 - A randomized evaluation of routine follow-up coronary angiography after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) found...

Anesthesia sedation practices for patients in the pediatric congenital cardiac cath lab

WASHINGTON--The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI), the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia (SPA) and the Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society...

New study explains factors that influence the timing of infectious disease outbreaks

Credit: UGA The delay between the time when a disease outbreak becomes possible and when it actually happens depends chiefly...

ZSL honors WCS’s Dr. John Robinson with its Lifetime Achievement Award

Credit: O. Landgrand London, November 1, 2016 -- The ZSL (Zoological Society of London) Awards Committee has presented the ZSL...

State’s 3 largest public research institutions to increase collaboration

The state's three largest public research institutions have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, which expresses the intent of the parties...

PET imaging visualizes hard-to-diagnose cardiac amyloidosis

Credit: W. Phillip Law/Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia Reston, Virginia - Researchers at Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia, have demonstrated...

Hospital for Special Surgery survey defines need for health outreach programs

Credit: Hospital for Special Surgery Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS), which has an Outpatient Center in Stamford, plans to increase...

Two antibiotics fight bacteria differently than thought