Water has some amazing properties. It is the only natural substance found in all three states — solid, liquid and gas — within the range of natural Earth temperatures. Its solid form is less dense…

In the first study to use imaging technology to see what goes on in the brain when we scratch, researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center have uncovered new clues about why…

Tropical forests are immensely species-rich. The question of what causes this diversity is a perennial one in tropical biology. In the 1970s Daniel Janzen and Joseph Connell independently came up…

NEW YORK, January 31 /PRNewswire/ -- NET-A-PORTER.COM, the world's leading luxury online fashion retailer, has partnered with ASMALLWORLD to allow members of the exclusive social networking site to…

A new study may explain why women with a mutation in the BRCA1 gene face up to an 85 percent lifetime risk of breast cancer; researchers from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center…

Political party affiliation has little bearing on the number of “green” actions people take, a new study by Porter Novelli and George Mason University shows. According to the survey of more than 11,…

PARIS, January 31 /PRNewswire/ -- On 24 January, in the course of an extraordinary show, Passionata unveiled its new image and the highly glamorous advertising campaign devised by David LaChapelle.…

LONDON, January 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Responding to news today that 1 million prescriptions per year are now made for obesity drugs, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) has called…

UTRECHT, Netherlands, and RESTON, Virginia, January 31 /PRNewswire/ -- - Multi-Modal Fusion Platform to Include Leading Fingerprint Technology WCC Smart Search & Match, a leading provider of…

Traditional ecosystems in which communities of plants and animals have co-evolved and are interdependent are increasingly rare, due to human-induced ecosystem changes. As a result, historical…