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…
Researchers develop flexible, stretchable photonic devices
[caption id="attachment_13594" align="alignnone" width="639"] A new material produced by Juejun Hu and his team can be repeatedly stretched without losing its optical properties.Courtesy of the researchers[/caption] CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Researchers at MIT and several other…
UW scientists create a recipe to make human…
[caption id="attachment_13591" align="alignnone" width="624"] A team of UW–Madison researchers has developed a tightly defined, step-by-step process to turn multipurpose stem cells (top) into the cells that make the human blood-brain barrier (bottom), the anatomical feature…
Ten years of hypergravity with ESA’s centriguge
[caption id="attachment_13588" align="alignnone" width="625"] Large Diameter Centrifuge[/caption] After 14 million revolutions, ESA’s Large Diameter Centrifuge is about to mark its 10th birthday. The 8 m-diameter four-arm centrifuge gives researchers access to a range of hypergravity…
Why some Muslim clerics become jihadists
In his new book, political scientist Richard Nielsen proposes a “blocked ambition” hypothesis. [caption id="attachment_13585" align="alignnone" width="626"] Richard Nielsen’s book, “Deadly Clerics: Blocked Ambition and the Paths to Jihad,” finds a certain portion of Muslim…