This week's Friday Fossil is Arthropleura. "Calm down, dear!!" I'm about to pop off to the isle of Arran, the poster-child of British Geology. Not many countries can boast a handy island that has…

HUDDINGE, Sweden, April 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Medivir AB (OMX: MVIR), the emerging research-based specialty pharmaceutical company focused on infectious diseases, announces that their partner,…

Gravity does funny things.   While the Earth looks rather round in pictures from space, the distortions that would have to occur in order to have uniform gravity everywhere would make it look…

In the 1970s, the federal government mandated that only universities that adhered to racial quotas could receive federal money - as a result, nearly all U.S. universities today receive federal…

CLAYMONT, Delaware, March 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CIGNA , the global leader in serving expatriates and other globally mobile individuals, has launched an international health care plan (http://www.…

MONTREAL, March 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Matrox Graphics Inc. today announced a new software release for the Matrox Extio F2208 dual-monitor and Matrox Extio F2408 quad-monitor KVM extenders. The…

NEW YORK, March 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- What: CSI (Computer Security Institute) Filter When: Thursday, April 7, 2011, 11:00am - 3:00pm ET How: This program is complimentary to all, made possible…

BERLIN, March 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- New data presented today at the International Liver Congress(TM) confirm the antiviral activity of fluvastatin - commonly used as a cholesterol-lowering…

BERLIN, March 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson* is today announcing, at the 46th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of the…

Open access, where scientists pay a fee to publish so that the public and other scientists can read the study for free, is a negligible issue to most scientists, according to a new research report in…