LONDON, November 13 /PRNewswire/ -- The world may be in economic meltdown but that hasn't deterred more than a dozen millionaires from purchasing iVIP Black, the first 'Millionaires' iPhone app'.…

ESA’s comet chaser Rosetta has swung by Earth for the third and final time, skimming past our planet to pick up a gravitational boost for an epic journey to rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov-…

Mice who had the PKCI/HINT1 gene removed had an anti-depressant-like and anxiolytic-like effect, say esearchers writing in BMC Neuroscience who applied a battery of behavioral tests to the PKCI/HINT1…

Many a parent has been driven to the point of madness by successive "why?" questions from preschoolers, but it's a good sign that they ask and they do better if they get a detailed explanation than…

As a mouse vet, my job is to suggest refinements to make cancer studies as easy as possible on the mice. Cancer researchers grow tumor cells for study. They buy them from a catalog, or they get…

The Monterey Herald hit close to home today with Turning the tables on giant, predatory squid: These fascinatingly grotesque creatures can reach 7 feet in length and weigh in excess of 100 pounds,…

BRASILIA, Brazil, November 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon dropped 45.7 percent from August 2008 to July 2009, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced…

ST. LOUIS, November 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Savvis, Inc. , a global leader in outsourced internet IT infrastructure services for enterprises, announced today that David Shacochis, vice president of…

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, November 12 /PRNewswire/ -- A dramatic shake-up in the U.S. market for new handset sales will ensue as smartphones grow to comprise roughly 60 percent of new handsets sold…

Our satellite hits the road-- even before it gets built!  I will be presenting a short talk on "Project Calliope: Science and Social Media" at the winter AAS meeting in Washington DC on January…