Torn posters, tape and tomato skins may seem like strange research topics for physicists and applied mathematicians, but it's perfectly normal for a team of researchers from the Centre National de la…

3-D images are very useful in medicine and now they're gaining ground in physics. Researchers from Hahn-Meitner-Institute (HMI) and the University of Applied Science in Berlin have succeeded in…

While space science has long been excited about advancements in the millimeter-wavelength/terahertz spectra, its potential in biology has been largely untapped. However, since THz radiation…

In case you've been canoodling with your supermodel and not reading this blog, you may not know that the Large Hadron Collider(LHC) is due to go online.(1) Or is it? No one can really be certain.…

CHICAGO, March 29 /PRNewswire/ -- - Reductions seen as soon as three days and out to 450 days in patients who received either bare metal or drug-eluting stents The investigational antiplatelet drug…

Superconductors are materials that conduct electrical currents without any loss below a certain temperature. Normally, high magnetic fields destroy superconductivity, turning the material into a…

CALGARY, Canada, March 28 /PRNewswire/ -- First Calgary Petroleums Ltd. ("FCP", "the Company") today announced that ISS/RiskMetrics and Glass Lewis, two leading independent proxy advisory firms,…

PRINCETON, New Jersey, March 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Pharmasset, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRUS) received a second loan of US$10 million from Horizon Technology Finance under an existing working capital loan…

NEW YORK and AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, March 28 /PRNewswire/ -- - Increased Releases and Higher Sales Attributed To Doubling Net Revenues -- Net revenues: US$10.1 million (2006: US$5.0 million) --…

On March 26, 2008, surgeons at UC San Diego Medical Center removed an inflamed appendix through a patient’s vagina, a first in the United States. Following the 50-minute procedure, the patient,…