Although people may not feel particularly overheated after this week’s Midwestern snowstorm, data from NASA show that the 12-month period from November 2009 to November 2010 was the warmest on record…

NEWARK, New Jersey, December 17, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- JOC Sailings (http://www.jocsailings.com), a division of United Business Media Global Trade (UBM GT) and a leader in providing point-to-point…

The largest known volcanic eruption in human history, 74,000 years ago, was at Mount Toba in northern Sumatra.   Researchers believed this cloud of millions of metric tons of volcanic ash and…

Sigh. I was going to write with lyric beauty about a dream I had last night, in which I was finally, finally successful in feeding baby squid. I watched them stuffing copepods into their mouths with…

There exists a tendency in nature to reduce complexity via modularization. This tendency grows when more modules become available. Finally this tendency enables nature to create intelligent and very…

Martin Gaskell did not get a job as the director of a new student observatory at the University of Kentucky and says he thinks his religion is behind it. So for all those who say academia is too…

I just returned from Environment and Climate Change Summit held at New Delhi. After 3 days of round table discussion and intensive brainstorming the final result was that every participating nation…

It's rare that a government commission won't take the opportunity to increase its authority and its importance.  It's good job security and makes people feel relevant, even if it's not only…

GUILDFORD, England, December 17, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Sanofi-aventis and Oxford University have entered into an agreement to conduct multi-phase oncology clinical and translational research with…

ESPOO, Finland, December 17, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Bluegiga Technologies announced today the availability of eHealth products for medical, health and fitness applications. The new Continua compatible…