In popular legend, Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara (1480- 1519), stands falsely accused of poisoning her second husband. Victor Hugo portrayed her in thinly veiled fiction as a tragic femme…

Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a complex condition considered by some to have both environmental and genetic causes. It is characterized by developmentally inappropriate levels of…

Asteroids are hunks of rock that orbit in the outer reaches of space.  Scientists have generally assumed that their small size limited the types of rock that could form in their crusts but two…

Meet the smallest fully integrated fuel cell in the world: only 9 mm3 in volume but 254 W per Liter in energy density. This millitechnology power source is the…

What is a bubble? As is often the case with language, one word can embody multiple meanings.  I am referring to the type of bubble emergent from large-scale social phenomena. It is generally a…

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, January 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Bytemobile, Inc., the global leader in mobile internet solutions for network operators, today announced the successful deployment of its…

NEW YORK, January 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Aisling Capital announced today that it raised US$650 million in committed capital for its newest life sciences fund, Aisling Capital III, LP. Aisling Capital…

LONDON, January 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Planalytics Inc., the global leader in Business Weather Intelligence(R), today released its new WeatherCall(SM) report detailing weather's influence on the United…

EDINBURGH, January 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading flight search engine, Skyscanner (http://www.Skyscanner.net), today launches the Skyscanner Affiliate Programme (https://signup.cj.com/member/…

I just ran across a great population genetics blog, Selective Sweep, written by derele, a PhD student in Edinburgh. He writes in both German and English about genomics, population genetics, and…