GENEVA, Switzerland, October 11, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Merck Serono, a division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, and Ablynx today announced that they have expanded their relationship and entered…

Today is the last of the International Cephalopod Awareness Days: Squid Day! Naturally Squid-A-Day is feeling very festive. Sorry I missed Day Two--yesterday was the first day of the squid workshop…

LONDON, October 11, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- ETX Capital has launched a fantasy trading game on Facebook enabling over 500 million users worldwide to compete against friends on the world's financial…

Deaf or blind people often report enhanced abilities in their remaining senses, but  no one has explained how and why that could be. Researchers say they have discovered there is a causal link…

What happens to sunscreens when they are exposed to sunlight?   They degrade, and how the skin is affected by those degradation products is the subject of research at the University of…

Biometric scientists at the University of Southampton say they can identify ears with a 100% success rate. In a new paper, scientists from the University’s School of Electronics and Computer Science…

You may not be able to trust Exxon for objective data on emissions and our planet but you sure can't trust advocacy-based political groups in a highly-charged political state like California either.…

Under the science/environment topic, one tidbit of hot news this past week was a paper linking a synergestic effect between a fungus and a virus and the death of honeybee hives.  What was not…

This article has basically nothing to do with baseball or Barry Zito's curveball so you can stop reading if that is your interest - or check out   The Science Of Baseball: What Is The Fastest A…

The ChatterBox Arctic Index This index is a work in progress.  I am trying to make it easier for my readers to find articles which may be of interest to them.  Comments are disabled for…