The MOMENTUM study found 27 percent of patients with resistant hypertension have hypercortisolism. More than one in four patients with resistant hypertension have elevated cortisol levels, according to new findings from the MOMENTUM study presented…
Fracture swarms on Mars
[caption id="attachment_13671" align="alignnone" width="625"] Sirenum Fossae fractures[/caption] These striking features on Mars were caused by the planet’s crust stretching apart in response to ancient volcanic activity. The fractures in the Sirenum Fossae region in the…
In the heart of devastating outbreak, research team…
[caption id="attachment_13666" align="alignnone" width="619"] UW-Madison’s Yoshihiro Kawaoka, Peter Halfmann and Alhaji Njai stand outside of a military hospital with Foday Sahr, a Sierra Leone military official and chair of microbiology at the University of Sierra…
Sunny solution for killing E. coli
Treating wastewater with solar irradiation shows promise in reducing two E. coli strains but a resilient strain persists. [caption id="attachment_13662" align="alignnone" width="613"] Nada Al-Jassim and coworkers conducted experiments to verify whether solar irradiation can be…
NASA Space Station Cargo Launches Aboard Orbital ATK…
[caption id="attachment_13659" align="alignnone" width="985"] Orbital ATK’s eighth contracted cargo delivery flight to the station successfully launched at 7:19 a.m. EST on an Antares rocket from Pad 0A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia Sunday.Credits:…