Common heart drug taken by millions found useless, possibly risky
Beta blockers—drugs commonly prescribed for a range of cardiac conditions, including heart attacks—provide no clinical benefit for patients who have...
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The Higgs boson just revealed a new secret at the Large Hadron Collider
The ATLAS Collaboration finds evidence of Higgs-boson decays to muons and improves sensitivity to Higgs-boson decays to a Z boson...
Mysterious “little red dots” could reveal how the first black holes formed
Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have proposed a new explanation for some of the universe's...
Scientists reveal how just two human decisions rewired the Great Salt Lake forever
Over the past 8,000 years, Utah's Great Salt Lake has been sensitive to changes in climate and water inflow. Now,...
Scientists just made vibrations so precise they can spot a single molecule
Just as overlapping ripples on a pond can amplify or cancel each other out, waves of many kinds -- including...
Blood pressure cuff errors may be missing 30% of hypertension cases
Researchers have found why common cuff-based blood pressure readings are inaccurate and how they might be improved, which could improve...
Giant Einstein ring reveals one of the Universe’s biggest black holes
Astronomers have discovered potentially the most massive black hole ever detected. The cosmic behemoth is close to the theoretical upper...
Baby star fires a jet, then gets blasted by the fallout
Astronomers have observed an explosion in space that is pushing back against and influencing the baby star which triggered the...
This star survived its own supernova and shined even brighter
Rich with detail, the spiral galaxy NGC 1309 shines in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week. NGC...
After 50 years, scientists finally catch elusive neutrinos near a reactor
Neutrinos are extremely elusive elementary particles. Day and night, 60 billion of them stream from the Sun through every square...
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