Science Education & Policy

LONDON, July 3 /PRNewswire/ -- - With Photo From 15th July a photographic exhibition with a difference will be on display for a month at Baltic Restaurant, SE1. The exhibition is the culmination of an eight-month project where some of London's most vulnerable women learnt photographic skills through a series of workshops and meetings and where they began to share and communicate for the first time, through their work and focus on an occupation other than chasing basic survival needs. These women have never been given an opportunity to speak out safely, but now they have catalogued their…

ABBOTT PARK, Illinois, July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- - XIENCE V, Only Drug Eluting Stent to Demonstrate Superiority Over Market-Leading Stent in Clinical Trials, Now Available in United States for Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease Abbott today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the XIENCE(TM) V Everolimus Eluting Coronary Stent System for the treatment of coronary artery disease. XIENCE V is the only drug eluting stent to have demonstrated superiority over Boston Scientific's TAXUS(R) paclitaxel-eluting coronary stent system in two randomized head-to-head…

Creationists and their intellectual cousins, intelligent design proponents, keep saying that scientists disagree as to “the truth” of evolution, and that the field is therefore in crisis, despite official attempts by scientists to deny any problem and unite under the evil cause of fighting “the truth” about Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. As is common in these circumstances, some creationist claims are in fact correct, but trivially so, while the use that creationists attempt to make of the claims themselves is highly (and possibly willfully) misleading. As a case in point, I am about to…

TORONTO, Canada, July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- - Tranzeo's WiMAX Subscriber Units Achieve Silver Status in Redline Ecosystem Verification(TM) Program Redline Communications Group Inc. (TSX and AIM: RDL), a leading provider of WiMAX broadband wireless products, today announced the addition of the Tranzeo Wireless Technologies' (TSX:TZT) WiMAX subscriber units to the Redline Ecosystem Verification(TM) ('REV') program. The Tranzeo products have achieved Silver status in the REV program which is designed to accelerate the deployment of interoperable WiMAX networks around the globe. "Redline is a…

WASHINGTON, July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- This past week, the 3rd Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) international domain abuse forum was held in Paris to coincide with one of the most contested ICANN meetings in years. Brands from around the world gathered at the CADNA forum with academic and business leaders to discuss the future of the domain name space and what can be done to improve the landscape for consumers and brand owners alike. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070724/DCTU006LOGO ) CADNA's forum aimed to give brand owners the chance to share their collective knowledge…

DUBLIN, Ireland, July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- SunGard has acquired Delphi Technologies Limited (http://www.delphi.ie ), a Dublin-based provider of consulting services and managed professional services to Ireland's financial services, insurance and telecommunications industries. Delphi Technologies Limited (Delphi) will become part of SunGard's European Consulting Services business. The transaction, the terms of which were not disclosed, is not expected to have a material impact on SunGard's financial results. Delphi was founded in 1988. It delivers consultancy services and managed professional…

LONDON, July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- A dating website exclusively for intelligent people has now launched in the UK. IntelligentPeople.com is an online dating and networking community which requires that its members pass an IQ test in order to join. IntelligentPeople.com is intended for people with an IQ app. in the top 15% of the population. In comparison, you need an IQ in the top 2% of the population to become a member of Mensa. People with an IQ in the top 15%, are said to be "highly intelligent". Most often, highly intelligent people communicate and interact best with other intelligent people…

Women over 90 are significantly more likely to have dementia than men of the same age, according UC Irvine researchers involved with the 90+ Study, one of the nation's largest studies of dementia and other health factors in the fastest-growing age demographic. The researchers reviewed an analysis of 911 people enrolled in the 90+ Study. Of those, 45 percent of the women had dementia, as opposed to 28 percent of the men. The analysis did not determine when the subjects first experienced dementia. The 90-plus age group, or the "oldest old," is the fastest growing segment of the population,…

IRVINE, California and LONDON, July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Endeavors Technologies, the pioneer in application streaming and virtualization technology today announced it has been selected by Everything Channel as a CRN Emerging Tech vendor for its Application Jukebox product. CRN's Emerging Tech list captures companies that are delivering high margins for solution providers with innovative and easy-to-use technology that undercuts industry giants. Application Jukebox is the next-generation application virtualization and streaming solution that simplifies the end-to-end application delivery cycle…

Children studying subjects like math, physics and chemistry have a harder time gettings A's than students of similar ability studying subjects like media studies and psychology, according to a new report that really doesn't surprise anyone. Durham University researchers analyzed and compared data from nearly one million schoolchildren sitting GCSE and A-level exams and reviewed 28 different studies of cross subject comparison conducted in the UK since 1970. They found significant differences in the relative difficulty of exams in different subjects with the sciences among the hardest. On…