A Harvard-based study led by Drs. Gottfried Schlaug and Ellen Winner and published in PLoS ONE  has found that children who study a musical instrument for at least three years outperform…

A team led by a Montana State University professor has found a fungus that produces a new type of diesel fuel, which they say holds great promise.  Calling the fungus' output "myco-diesel," Gary…

According to the international space agencies, 'space weather' like radiation from the sun and cosmic rays in a solar storm, is the single greatest obstacle to deep space travel.  New…

TOKYO, November 3 /PRNewswire/ -- - Local Language Interface Accelerates Business Decisions and Improves User Experience The Scientific business of Thomson Reuters, the world's leading source of…

Letter* published in Nature Geoscience concluded at last: Overall, despite the paucity of observations, we find that human-induced warming is detectable in both these regions of high…

PARIS, November 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Nanosec GmbH introduces the IDForce the world's smallest and fastest table-top laser personalization machine at the 2008 Cartes IDentification Exhibition in Paris…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, November 3 /PRNewswire/ -- - Service Offers Real Time Measurement and Verification of Carbon Footprint for Homes, Buildings and Infrastructure Globally Using Cloud…

Does your office lighting make you feel weary and dreary?  The cure may be at hand!  Recently, Professor Derk-Jan Dijk of the Surrey Sleep Centre has led a team testing out new bulbs with a…

CALGARY, Canada, November 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Flint Energy Services Ltd (Flint, the Company) announced today that FT Services, Flint's 50 per cent owned joint venture, was awarded a two-year, C$12…

Industry-funded medical research - is it hopelessly biased or does it meet higher standards than academic research does? John Tierney points to a new study from the International Journal of Obesity…