Girolamo Fracastoro (also known as Hieronymus Fracastorius), was born in 1478 in Verona, at that time still part of the Republic of Venice, to a noble family. He studied at Padua University, where he…

Many children with autism have elevated blood levels of serotonin – a chemical with strong links to mood and anxiety. But what relevance this “hyperserotonemia” has for autism has remained a mystery…

Are smart people drawn to the arts or does arts training make people smarter? Or neither? According to research led by Dr. Michael S. Gazzaniga of the University of California at Santa Barbara,…

ATLANTA, March 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Lancope(R), Inc., the provider of the StealthWatch(TM) System, the most widely used network behavior analysis (NBA) and response solution, today announced the…

Mutations in genes governing an important cell-signaling pathway influence human longevity, scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found. The report is the…

Bacteria are ubiquitous on Earth. They've been found from the upper reaches of the atmosphere to miles below the ocean floor. Because of their ubiquity, scientists have long believed bacteria to be…

GENEVA, March 4 /PRNewswire/ -- -- Fuel economy enthusiasts drive from London to Berlin on single tanks of fuel ... and then keep going! -- Fuel consumption of less than 4.3 L/100 km (over 66…

Curing cancer with 'natural' products used to be dismissed as shaman quackery but many chemotherapies that fight cancer in modern medicine are natural products or were developed on the basis of…

Computers are commonly used as tools to design and manipulate three-dimensional objects but soon they may provide people with a way to sense the texture of those objects or feel how they fit together…

WIGAN, England, March 4 /PRNewswire/ -- London is bidding to become the cleanest city on earth in the run-up to the 2012 Olympic Games. Two British stars from Olympic past and future are urging…