LONDON, March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- - Ben Holmes Named Partner Index Ventures today announced the closing of a euro 350 million early stage fund, Index Ventures V. The fund is dedicated to early stage…

A new Hubble image shows three galaxies locked in a gravitational tug-of-war that may result in the eventual demise of one of them. About 100 million light-years away, in the constellation of Piscis…

Gifted youths already know what they want to be when they grow up - in a lot of cases it's applied sciences, but when they are asked why they made their choices, they are not able to explain. A study…

In a study in the latest issue of European Journal of Neuroscience, an interdisciplinary Northwestern research team says they have found biological evidence that musical training enhances an…

Despite the increased popularity of geek culture – movies based on comic books, videogames, virtual worlds – and the ubiquity of computers, the geek's close cousin, the nerd, still suffers from a…

The helpless behavior that is commonly linked to depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is preceded by stress-related losses of synapses—microscopic connections between brain cells—in…

Economics is always called the dismal science, because it has science pretensions yet never makes accurate predictions.   The outlook, according to economists, is always rather bleak. But given…

An octopus flooded the Santa Monica Pier Aquarium (note the link on the 2nd page to a video showing an octopus climbing through a very small hole- really cool if you haven't seen them in action…

SALT LAKE CITY, March 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Each day around the world over one billion people log on to the biggest global network of resources ever created, the Internet. Because of those that rely on…

CORAL GABLES, Florida, March 2 /PRNewswire/ -- - Fourth Quarter Revenue Increased 51% - Fourth Quarter Diluted EPS Increased 136% - Record Annual Revenue and Net Income MasTec, Inc. (NYSE: MTZ)…