Science Education & Policy

Elsevier Announces Agreement With Portico

AMSTERDAM, June 26 /PRNewswire/--- Ensures Continued Access to eBooks on ScienceDirect Elsevier, a leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical (STM) information, today announced an agreement with Portico, a not-for-profit digital preservation s ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jun 26 2008 - 8:32am

Agendia's MammaPrint(R) Receives Prestigious Award From Dutch Innovation Platform

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, June 26 /PRNewswire/--- Test Declared One of the Most Pioneering Healthcare Innovations in 21st Century Agendia BV, a world leader in gene expression analysis-based diagnostics, is pleased to announce that the company recently rece ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jun 26 2008 - 9:30am

Gordon Brown Under Pressure From Influential Britons To Scrap Fuel Tax Hike

LONDON, June 26 /PRNewswire/-- YouGovStone, an opinion research agency, reports new findings which state that 83% of top Britons believe the Government should change its plans concerning the two pence fuel duty rise scheduled for October. These findings i ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jun 26 2008 - 11:30am

Gender Bias- Can Men Get A Fair Chance From Women In Research?

We read (and write here) a lot about gender issues in the scientific arena but usually topics are related to science education and promoting greater equality of numbers at the higher levels. There are a number of studies detailing the issues women face in ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 26 2008 - 11:49am

Analyzing The Homocide Trend In Young Men

It has been commonly regarded as a good sign that the nation's homocide rate has remained flat but the big picture obscures a disturbing fact, say researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Namely that between 1999 and 2005, h ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 26 2008 - 12:25pm

Edmonton To Be Site Of World's First Industrial Scale Municipal Waste-to-Ethanol Facility

EDMONTON, Canada, June 26 /PRNewswire/-- Edmonton will be home to the world's first industrial scale facility to produce biofuels from municipal solid waste. The City has signed a 25-year agreement with GreenField Ethanol, Canada's largest ethan ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jun 26 2008 - 4:32pm

Micro Focus- Revenues Up 33%, Interview With CEO And CFO

LONDON, June 27 /PRNewswire/-- Micro Focus, the UK software company, today announced full-year results that saw revenues rise above the $200m mark for the first time including a 'pleasing' return from North America of 20 per cent. The company sa ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jun 27 2008 - 2:32am

European Ministers Sign Groundbreaking Charter On Health System

TALLINN, Estonia and COPENHAGEN, June 27 /PRNewswire/--- New Charter Brings Equity, Performance and Accountability to Health Sector Ministers of health from 53 countries (1), which make the WHO European Region, today signed a new charter on health systems ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jun 27 2008 - 7:30am

ICANN's Tasting Solution A Partial Success

WASHINGTON, June 27 /PRNewswire/--- ICANN Solution to Domain Tasting is a Half Measure that Will do Little To Eliminate Tasting or Offer Protections to Internet Users The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA), a coalition comprised of 11 globally re ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jun 27 2008 - 9:30am

New Mercury-Absorbent Packaging May Let You Use CFL Bulbs Without Risking Your Health

Due to concerns about greenhouse gases, compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) have become the rage- even to a point where common sense has taken a holiday, namely when environmental sites fall back on Big Tobacco language like 'unlikely to hurt you' a ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 27 2008 - 2:40pm