NASA researchers studying urban landscapes say the intensity of the "heat island" created by a city depends on the ecosystem it replaced and on the regional climate where the city is located. Urban…

Before the tobacco industry gave up the fight over the health effects of smoking, it was common for major cigarette manufacturers like Phillip Morris to fight advertising restrictions on their…

Holographic Hot HorizonsWe are all familiar with gravity. Gravity is what makes us earthbound. It causes ourselves and any object in our vicinity to accelerate downward at 9.8 m/s2. Newton has shown…

India under attack as high drama mars climate summit Copenhagen: India and China came under a concerted attack from rich nations Monday for a three-hour suspension of the Dec 7-18 climate summit,…

LONDON, December 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2009 Frost Sullivan European Product Quality Leadership Award in the Ultrasound Market is conferred on SonoScape. The award recipient has effectively analyzed…

LONDON, December 15 /PRNewswire/ -- As the Christmas party season reaches its peak, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) is launching a campaign to warn of the dangers of getting…

The United States, Russia and a United Nations arms control committee are discussing methods to, "strengthen Internet security and limiting military use of cyberspace." It interesting how different…

The government of China has funded and opened a pipeline going from Turkmenistan to Xinjiang province in China.  The pipeline is set to provide, "40 billion cubic meters of gas for 30 years once…

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, December 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Alexza Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that it has submitted its New Drug Application (NDA) for Staccato(R) loxapine (AZ-004) to the US…

Today's issue of Molecular Cell has two complementary papers on biological signal processing that look interesting (subscription required): "The Incoherent Feedforward Loop Can Provide Fold-Change…