In normal plants, when sugars (made from water and carbon dioxide during photosynthesis) accumulate in the leaves, photosynthesis slows down, and the plant does not take in as much carbon dioxide…

SAN MATEO, California, December 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Bizanga, the global company behind the most scalable and full-featured e-mail and message processing platform, today announced the appointment of…

The other shoe drops. A year ago Atul Gawande wrote in The New Yorker about the Apgar score, a low-tech measurement of newborn viability that led to vast improvements in obstetrics. That’s the “how…

GREENSBORO, North Carolina, December 20 /PRNewswire/ -- RF Micro Devices, Inc. (Nasdaq: RFMD), a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance radio frequency systems and solutions…

Researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have corrected key symptoms of mental retardation and autism in mice. The report in Neuron also indicates that a certain class of drugs…

Chemical engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas have investigated supercritical methanol as a method of converting chicken fat into biodiesel fuel. The new study also successfully…

ALZENAU, Germany and CHERNOBYL, Ukraine, December 19 /PRNewswire/ -- NUKEM Technologies GmbH, Alzenau has handed over the Engineered Near Surface Disposal Facility at Chernobyl to the customer SSE…

NORWICH, England, December 19 /PRNewswire/ -- - Less Than Half a Year Under New Ownership, Turnover for 2007 Expected to Increase by 34% on an Annual Basis - Well Positioned for 2008 Thanks to…

A research team at Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering comprised of Professor Christopher Davis, Research Scientist Igor Smolyaninov, and graduate student Yu-Ju Hung, has used plasmon…

Scientists long have focused on how climate and vegetation allowed human ancestors to evolve in Africa. Now, University of Utah geologists are calling renewed attention to the idea that ground…