LONDON, May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- It's time to move beyond the Lehman Sisters would have survived argument, which suggested that if women had been in charge, the banks would not have fallen into crisis…

Pulsars are superdense neutron stars, the remnants left after massive stars have exploded as supernovae. Their powerful magnetic fields generate lighthouse-like beams of light and radio waves that…

The Mars rover, Opportunity, surveyed the rim and interior of Victoria Crater on the Red Planet from September 2006 through August 2008. Key findings from that work, reported in the May 22 edition of…

You're sitting in a room filled with a gazillion air molecules - how likely is it that most of those air molecules will spontaneously end up in the corner of the room opposite of where you're sitting…

BASEL, Switzerland, May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- **This press release is not intended for the UK media** - Once daily QAB149 (indacaterol) significantly improves lung function compared to formoterol and…

If you own a computer you have probably gotten a 'virus' but there have been no major outbreaks of mobile phone viral infection despite the fact that over 80 percent of Americans now use these…

A class of drugs already approved as cancer treatments might also help to beat alcohol addiction. That's the conclusion of a discovery in flies of a gene, dubbed happyhour, that has an important and…

New research provides exciting genetic insight into a rare syndrome that first appeared in the medical literature in the mid 1800s with the case of Julia Pastrana, the world's most notorious bearded…

In the April 6, 2009 Edition of The Nation, Professor Michael T. Klare has written a rather thoughtful article ("Global Crime Wave?") on how the global economic crisis may be pushing a surge in crime…

Biocentrism - life and consciousness are the bottom line in understanding the universe Biology must be first among sciences in a theory of everything Consciousness is a physics problem Strange…