New images from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton, have helped astronomers detect a vast reservoir of intergalactic gas about 400 million light years from Earth. This discovery is…

A Texas A&M University-led team of astronomers has uncovered what may be the earliest, most distant cluster of galaxies ever detected. The group of roughly 60 galaxies, called CLG J02182-05102,…

Computer analysis of sentiments expressed in a billion "tweets" during 2008-2009 yielded measures of consumer confidence and presidential job approval similar to those of well-established public…

Working overtime may be bad for your heart, according to results from a long-running study following more than 10,000 government employees in London. The research, published in the European Heart…

GUANGZHOU, China, May 11, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Those most successful in business tend to see adversity not as an obstacle, but as an opportunity. Year in and year out, nearly a quarter million…

REDWOOD CITY, California, May 11, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Bigfoot Networks, the networking technology company behind the Killer(TM) line of gaming networks cards, today announced Killer(TM) 2100, its…

ATLANTA, May 11, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The USA India Business Summit bestowed its first Person of the Year award on Dr. A. K. Pradeep at a glittering premiere gathering of the two countries' business…

The admittedly small and self-selected group of inmates that I provide psychotherapy for on a weekly basis at our local county jail has inspired my curiosity about the mental and emotional health of…

LONDON, May 11, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The Bill Melinda Gates Foundation today announced 78 grants of US$100,000 each in the latest round of Grand Challenges Explorations. Grants include the…

Neural stem cells have long been defined as origin of nervous system development, spontaneously giving rise to the heterogeneous multitude of cells that make up the brain. Remarkably, neural stem…