OSLO, January 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Following 5 years of research and development under the technical direction of its long time author Mark Burgess (a professor of Network and System Administration at…

HAIFA, Israel, January 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Oil Refineries Ltd. (TASE: ORL.TA) (the Company), Israel's largest oil refiner, announced today that, following the Transaction Report issued by the Company…

HAMBURG, Germany, January 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Alexander Otto, CEO of ECE Projektmanagement, took over as Chairman of ULI Europe as of January 1, 2009. Otto, Chairman of ULI Germany for the last five…

As worldwide demand for cleaner energy grows, scientists are working frantically in every area to improve the amount of energy we are able to generate from various renewable sources. Many existing…

Across the University of Colorado at Boulder campus students are sharing answers, checking their responses to questions against those of their neighbors and making adjustments to those answers in…

A team of Johns Hopkins neuroscientists has worked out how some newly discovered light sensors in the eye detect light and communicate with the brain. The report appears online this week in Nature.…

The combination of a very pleasant but busy holiday visit with my In-laws and feeling a bit under the weather has caused my blogging to drop precipitously this past week. I'm back, ready to start off…

First, a neat little toy:  build your own squid! I won't give anything else away... Second, in the spirit of ending the old year and beginning the new, I like this synopsis of the best science…

Clichés are soft.. they leave it to your imagination.  Clichés are hard.. they leave it to your imagination. Embedded in the clichés are stereotypes. A new cliché: "2009 is years-old." P.S.…

The future of the nanotechnology field depends on our ability to reliably and reproducibly assemble nanoparticles into 3D structures we can use to develop new technologies. According to Hao Yan and…