As you read In Praise Of Consumerism - It Appeals To The Thoreau In You you may have wondered if I hated poor Henry David Thoreau. Not at all. He inspired me at the young and impressionable age of…

SAO PAULO, Brazil, May 8 /PRNewswire/ -- - EBITDA from Generation grows 86% YoY in 1QO8 reaching R$ 176.1 million EDP - ENERGIAS DO BRASIL S.A. ("Energias do Brasil" or "Group") (Bovespa: ENBR3), a…

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, North Carolina, May 7 /PRNewswire/ -- - Proposed acquisition to augment Quintiles Consulting offerings Quintiles Transnational Corp. today announced that it has signed an…

Would you recognize a legislative push for Creationism if you saw one? After decades of failed legal strategies to overtly ban evolution or make equal time for Creationism in public schools, the…

A team of Dutch and German astronomers have discovered part of the missing matter in the Universe using the European X-ray satellite XMM-Newton. They observed a filament of hot gas connecting two…

Scientists used to think that hermaphrodites, due to their low position in the evolutionary scale, did not have sufficiently developed sensory systems to assess the “quality” of their mates. A new…

The National Geographic Society and the international polling firm GlobeScan today unveiled a new mechanism for measuring and comparing individual consumer behavior as it relates to the environment…

You wouldn't think that clean air would be bad for the Amazon rainforest but UK and Brazilian climate scientists writing in Nature say just that. Reduced sulphur dioxide emissions from less burning…

FREDERICK, Maryland, May 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Vaccinogen Inc. said Dutch health authorities licensed it to manufacture its break-through OncoVAX anti-colon cancer vaccine, immediately clearing the path…

PALO ALTO, California, May 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Accel Partners, a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm, today announced the addition of Sameer Gandhi as a partner in their Palo Alto office.…