Ben Allanach is a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Cambridge. Before that he was a post-doc at LAPP (Annecy, France), CERN (Geneva, Switzerland), Cambridge (UK) and the…

The more new planets we find, and the tally of confirmed planets orbiting other stars is now more than 500, the less we seem to know about how planetary systems are born. We're heading for a golden…

An 1847 Merz and Mahler telescope got some love from a Missouri astronomy club and now local people can take a look at the stars they way scientists did the year Thomas Edison was born.   Fun…

Supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A) is the remains of a massive star 11,000 light years away that would have appeared to explode about 330 years ago as observed from Earth. Neutron stars like Cas…

OVERLAND PARK, Kansas, February 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- LightWild announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has awarded the company a patent for a method of displaying…

KUWAIT CITY, February 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Ahead of Kuwait's National Day and Liberation Day weekend, His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah (http://www.pm.…

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, February 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Securing telecommunications networks is becoming increasingly difficult. Outsourcing, migrating critical business functions to the cloud, and…

HOUSTON, February 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- OrthoAccel Technologies, Inc. (http://www.acceledent.co.uk) developers of the AcceleDent System (http://www.acceledent.co.uk), a medical device to…

LONDON, February 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Disciplinary Committee of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons last night [22 February 2011] directed that a veterinary surgeon from Berkshire be…

HARLEYSVILLE, Pennsylvania, February 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Colorcon, Inc., today announced the expansion of its Nutraficient(R), food supplement coating product line to include PVA-based, high-…