In Hindu mythology when a man dies and his funeral pyre has to be lit the fire must be provided by son only and not the daughter so that the man gets moksha or salvation . This is common belief of…

SAN DIEGO, October 14, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Vital Therapies, Inc., (VTI) today announced that a poster is being presented at the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) meeting…

LAGOS, Nigeria, October 14, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- ContourGlobal announced today that it will receive US$37.8 million in political risk insurance from the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC…

LONDON, October 14, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- With new data revealing 23 Europeans die each hour[i] from a preventable lung condition, the European Respiratory Society (ERS) is calling on people across…

India with its population is growing. Its economy too is growing . However increasing population is a problem and almost all the development is consumed in feeding hungry children I am quoting…

Baseball players will tell you that a fastball can rise - and elementary physics says it can also, the same way an airplane rises because the teardrop shape of a wing causes air to go over the top…

WASHINGTON, October 13, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- In response to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) decision today to allow 15% ethanol blends for 2007 and later model vehicles, an increase…

Some Slovenian researchers may be missing the point of Isaac Asimov's fictional (yet lofty, and therefore implicity hoping-to-be-followed) Laws of Robotics.  From from Asimov's third robot story…

On October 13th 1985 the Tevatron collider started operations, producing the first man-made proton-antiproton collisions at 1.6 TeV center-of-mass energy in the core of the CDF detector. 25 years…

Rotting fish experiments have helped to create picture of our early ancestors, says a study from the University of Leicester. fossils from the early phase of vertebrate evolution are very rare…