Small molecule prevents blood clots without increasing bleeding risk

It may be possible to disrupt harmful blood clots in people at risk for heart attack…

Ketamine doesn’t affect delirium or pain after surgery

A new study sought to discover what effect ketamine has on delirium and pain — two…

Detecting alzheimer’s disease before symptoms emerge

Cognitive tests can detect early Alzheimer’s disease in older adults without symptoms according to a new…

Giant ringed planet likely cause of mysterious eclipses

A giant gas planet -- up to 50x the mass of Jupiter, encircled by a ring…

Handheld scanner reveals vascularization in psoriasis patients

A newly developed tissue scanner allows looking under the skin of psoriasis patients. This provides clinically…

Modern data suggests midlife-crisis risk of suicide in people’s late 40s

New research documents modern international evidence of a midlife peak in suicide risk. The pattern is…

Tea consumption leads to epigenetic changes in women

Epigenetic changes are chemical modifications that turn our genes off or on. In a new study,…

Dutch toxic landfill site is now capturing and storing carbon

Precise carbon measurements indicate that peat is already being formed at the Volgermeerpolder near Amsterdam (NL),…

Random numbers: Hard times ahead for hackers

Whenever we need to communicate in secret, a cryptographic key is needed. For this key to…

High release of strong greenhouse gas nitrous oxide found from northern peatlands at permafrost thaw

Permafrost thaw may greatly increase emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O) from northern permafrost peatlands, research shows.…