EMBARGOED until: 24 November 2009 00:01 GMT ‘COSMIC SLOT MACHINE’ MATCHES GALAXY COLLISIONS A new website will give everyone the chance to contribute to science by playing a ‘cosmic slot machine’ and…

An article entitled "Children unaffected by smoking ban consequences" points to a new study indicating that children's exposure to second hand smoke is unaffected by the smoking ban in Wales. We…

LONDON, November 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Following the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry paper concerning the study investigating the effects of childbirth in MS, the MS Society has…

LONDON, November 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The Government's flagship Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme is in danger of failing to meet its zero-carbon schools target, a new inquiry has found…

TORONTO, November 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Bontan Corporation Inc. (Bontan) is pleased to announce that it has acquired, through its wholly owned subsidiary, an indirect 71.63% working interest in two…

WASHINGTON, November 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton today launched the Department of State's second annual ExchangesConnect Video Contest, Change Your Climate, Change…

My blog is not a place for hot-off-the-press news - in it you are more likely to find discussions on material well digested and thought over. Nevertheless, I do not have the guts to sit on today's…

Speaking of cirrate octopods (as I have been recently), BBC News In Pictures: Monsters of the deep is strongly dominated by a cirrate octopus! Yay! Three of the eight photos feature Grimpoteuthis:…

“Come on into the hot tub,” I told my three year old boy. But he wouldn’t budge. No way was he joining his older sister in there. “It’s warm, and it feels nice!” I urged, “There’s nothing to be…

Being a graduate student in particle physics is a tough, stressful job. I know it because I once was one, and I still remember the burden of giving exams, carrying on single-handedly a difficult…