New Hubble mosaic of the Orion Nebula
Credit: NASA, ESA/Hubble In the search for rogue planets and failed stars astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have created a new mosaic image...
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Hubble discovery of runaway star yields clues to breakup of multiple-star system
Credit: NASA, ESA, and Z. Levy (STScI) As British royal families fought the War of the Roses in the 1400s for control of England's throne,...
Happy spouse, happy house
Credit: UC Riverside Achieving marital quality could seem daunting, even impossible to any couple, let alone a couple in which one of the partners is...
TGen study of ASU football team produces largest known dataset for concussion diagnostics
PHOENIX, Ariz. -- March 17, 2017 -- Following a three-year study of the Arizona State University football program, researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute...
New ‘gene silencer’ drug reduce cholesterol by over 50 percent
The findings come from the largest trial yet to test the safety and effectiveness of this kind of therapy. The technique, known as RNA interference...
Pharmacist medicines reconciliation reduces likelihood of patient harm
A pilot study, published today in British Medical Journal Open, demonstrates that medicines reconciliation provided by pharmacists can significantly reduce medicine discrepancies and may be...
Nation’s largest private health care database acquires all Medicare claims data
New York, NY--March 15, 2017--FAIR Health announced today that as a result of its designation last year by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services...
Russian scientists and Chinese business collaboration development
Credit: Peter the Great Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University On March 16, 2017Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) signed an agreement with Chinese companies Inner...
Stanford scientists reveal how grass developed a better way to breathe
Credit: Michael Raissig and Dominique Bergmann Flash back to your first lesson in photosynthesis and you may recall stomata, the holes in the leaves of...
Journal of Dairy Science® honors most prolific authors
Philadelphia, PA, March 17, 2017 - For 100 years, the Journal of Dairy Science® (JDS) has provided high-quality, peer-reviewed research to readers representing education, industry,...
Penn researchers find patients’ annual financial burden under Medicare Part D is ‘too much too soon’
PHILADELPHIA - Medical advances have offered an increasing number of treatment options to patients with serious and chronic illnesses such as cancer, but these "specialty...
Why water splashes: New theory reveals secrets
Credit: University of Warwick Reason why raindrops and spilt coffee splash revealed by University of Warwick research New theory uncovers -- for first time --...
The discovery of Majorana fermion
Credit: ©Science China Press The detection of Majorana fermion is one of the hotspots in the study of condensed matter recently. The research group in...
Can quantum theory explain why jokes are funny?
Why was 6 afraid of 7? Because 789. Whether this pun makes you giggle or groan in pain, your reaction is a consequence of the...
PCSK9 inhibitor evolocumab reduces adverse cardiovascular events
PCSK9 Inhibitor Evolocumab Significantly Reduces Adverse Cardiovascular Events When Added to Statin Therapy With No Major Safety Concerns Data from the first successfully completed dedicated...
