Last year, Britain imported 14,000 tons of chocolate covered waffles - and exported 15,000 tons. Doesn't make sense? It's not just bizarre waffle travels; Europeans are importing more food from overseas than ever before, even while exporting things they grow locally and get $60 billion in annual subsidies to produce.

By studying what Europeans eat and from where, scientists hope to understand the economic, political, and cultural impacts of food on European society. One obvious impact of Europeans buying food from outside Europe is that it has greater impact on the environment. For example, as food travels more, it has to be protected with more packaging.

As the giant North American ice sheets melted an enormous pool of freshwater, many times larger than all of the Great Lakes, formed behind them. About 8400 years ago this pool of freshwater burst free and flooded the North Atlantic.

About the same time, a sharp century long cold spell is observed around the North Atlantic and other areas. Researchers have often speculated that the cooling was the result of changes in ocean circulation triggered by this freshwater flood. The sudden addition of so much freshwater would have curtailed (suppressed) the sinking of deep water in the North Atlantic and as a consequence less warm water would be pulled north in the Gulf stream.

Measuring soot formation in a diesel engine is far from easy because the turbulent environment in the combustion cylinder means no two combustion cycles are the same. Furthermore, the measurements are difficult to reproduce as the pressure at which fuel is injected into the cylinder causes an extra source of turbulence.

Bas Bougie, a doctoral candidate at Radboud University Nijmegen created a glass cylinder with an engine so he could investigate soot formation and find ways to optimize diesel performance using laser light.

Laser Induced Incandescence (LII) can be used to investigate optimal engine conditions that reduce soot emission from the engine. LII can be deployed in different types of engines and with different fuels.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, December 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- Summary: Genmab has Initiated a Phase I/II Safety and Dose Finding Study of HuMax-CD38 for the Treatment of Multiple Myeloma

Genmab A/S (OMX: GEN) announced today it has initiated a Phase I/II safety and dose finding study of HuMax-CD38(TM) for the treatment of multiple myeloma (MM). The study will include a maximum of 122 patients with MM who are relapsed or refractory to at least two different prior treatments and are without further established treatment options.

FUZHOU, China, December 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- The Firm Warlords and the Online Game Warlords Online will be Shown Simultaneously

The first domestic online game (Warlords Online) based on the film of the same name, which is jointly produced by NetDragon (NetDragon Websoft Inc. (SEHK GEM 8288)) and Central Motion Picture Corp., will be tested officially for the first time on December 13. China's traditional recreational industry and emerging digital recreational industry will greet the first annual show of a landmark work, and it will become another important milestone in the development of China's recreational industry.

WAALWIJK, The Netherlands, December 7 /PRNewswire/ -- DOCdata N.V. today announces that DOCdata (UK) e-Holding Limited has increased their interest of 76% in the issued share capital of Braywood Holdings Limited in Witney (UK) with 9.6% to 85.6%. This share transaction results from the agreement with one of the three minority shareholders on the sale of his full remaining share interest in Braywood Holdings Limited, after he had resigned from his service with Braywood. The transaction deviates from the option agreement signed in November 2006, by which DOCdata would acquire over the four year period from 2007 to 2010 the remaining 24% of the issued share capital in four equal tranches of 6% each year from the minority shareholders.

DUSSELDORF, Germany, December 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The Kythera Award, founded in 2001 by the author and artist Gabriele Henkel, is awarded annually to particularly deserving artists with respect to cultural exchange between Germany and the Latin countries of Europe. The former recipients are publisher Klaus Wagenbach, film director Patrice Chéreau, conductor Claudio Abbado, architect Renzo Piano as well as art historian Dr. Sylvia Ferino in the K.H.M. in Vienna.

Although most scientists believe tuberculosis emerged only several thousand years ago, new research from The University of Texas at Austin reveals the most ancient evidence of the disease has been found in a 500,000-year-old human fossil from Turkey.

The discovery of the new specimen of the human species, Homo erectus, suggests support for the theory that dark-skinned people who migrate northward from low, tropical latitudes produce less vitamin D, which can adversely affect the immune system as well as the skeleton.

John Kappelman, professor of anthropology at The University of Texas at Austin, is part of an international team of researchers from the United States, Turkey and Germany who have published their findings in the Dec.

Until recently, a student solving a calculus problem, a physicist modeling a galaxy or a mathematician studying a complex equation had to use powerful computer programs that cost hundreds or thousands of dollars. But an open-source tool based at the University of Washington won first prize in the scientific software division of Les Trophées du Libre, an international competition for free software.

The tool, called Sage, faced initial skepticism from the mathematics and education communities.

"I've had a surprisingly large number of people tell me that something like Sage couldn't be done – that it just wasn't possible," said William Stein, associate professor of mathematics and lead developer of the tool. "I'm hearing that less now."