SALT LAKE CITY, February 24, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Amedica Corporation (AC), a spinal and orthopaedic implant and instrument company focused on unique silicon nitride (SiN) ceramic technologies,…

NORWICH, England, February 24, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The Norwich Research Park (NRP) in Norfolk is poised to boost its world-class reputation as one of the UK's leading centres for scientific research…

LONDON, February 24, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- A simple blood test that could help save lives by detecting ovarian cancer at an earlier stage is available in the UK from 25 February 2010. Called OvPlex(TM…

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, February 24, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Amsterdam Molecular Therapeutics , a leader in the field of human gene therapy, today reported its results for the year to December 31,…

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) scientists and engineers have devised an undersea optical communications system that—complemented by acoustics—enables a virtual revolution in high-speed…

In a study in Nano Letters, scientists report that they have developed a flexible, biocompatible rubber film called Piezo-rubber for use in implantable or wearable energy harvesting systems. The…

Engineers from the University of Florida and Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea have developed what they call a 'nearly perfect hydrophobic interface' by reproducing, on small bits of flat…

According to a new study in Social Psychology Quarterly, the higher your IQ the more likely you are to be a liberal and an atheist. The author says this is because more intelligent people exhibit…

Researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland have found that the reward centers in the human brain respond more strongly when a poor person…

Many scientists warn that with a changing climate there's a good chance that forest fires in the Pacific Northwest will become larger and more frequent – and according to one expert, that's just fine…