LONDON, April 20 /PRNewswire/ -- SuperDerivatives (SD), the derivatives benchmark and multi-asset front office and revaluation provider, has launched the next generation of its interest rates derivatives trading system to support unprecedented demand for tools to distribute and manage interest rate derivatives.

Volatility in the interest rates market, driven by policy-setters and central banks adapting their base rates to the changing economic landscape, has combined with high levels of illiquidity in banking systems to create uncertainty in pricing for even the most vanilla of interest rates derivatives.

LONDON, April 20 /PRNewswire/ --

Bottled water body launches new campaign as research reveals that Britons are drinking almost 7bn extra calories by replacing bottled water with sugary drinks

New market analyst data shows that UK bottled water sales fell by 7% last year, but that 71% of that decline came from people buying other soft drinks instead[1]. Rather than turning on the tap, people are turning to sugary drinks, and the switching equates to pouring an extra 1,700 tonnes of sugar and 6.8 billion calories into the nation's diet[2].

LONDON, April 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Due to Popular Demand, Ask Jeeves Returns to the UK, With More Answers Than Ever Before

Internet search engine Ask.com today brings back its iconic butler Jeeves after extensive research revealed users missed his friendly, human touch. His return caps an extensive programme of radical improvements to the search engine, which from today returns to its original name, Ask Jeeves, in the UK.

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 19 /PRNewswire/ --

- Data Show Fleximer(R) Extends Exposure to Conjugated Drug -

Mersana, a platform-based cancer therapeutics company, today announced positive results of preclinical studies for its second development candidate, XMT-1107, in two posters at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) in Denver.

It is said that people go into psychology to understand themselves...well, one of my main reasons why I went into genetics was to prove that I was not related to my family. That, of course, didn't happen - The Addams Family is a more functional collection of misfits than my assortment of relatives, but now I may have a second option. Maybe I can sue my parents for the genetic material that they gave me.

There was once a controversy about human embryonic stem cell research - former president Bush put in place limited forms of research in 2001, to the outcry of science advocates who vilified his close-mindedness and then president Obama put in place limited forms of research on Friday and science advocates cheered the progressive thinking in his deft handling of the NIH policy.

Cancer patients can survive longer under treatments based on their individual genetic profiles, according to a nationwide study released jointly today by Phoenix-area healthcare organizations.  The study says that molecular profiling of patients can identify specific treatments for individuals, helping keep their cancer in check for significantly longer periods, and in some cases even shrinking tumors.

Study results were released today at the 100th annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research in Denver by Dr. Daniel Von Hoff, Physician-In-Chief of the Phoenix-based Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), and the study's Principal Investigator.

In the 1960s and early 1970s, the Apollo Moon Program struggled with a formidable enemy that was sometimes more formidable than others: sticky lunar dust. Four decades later, a new study says they now know why; forces that compel lunar dust to cling to surfaces change during the lunar day - with the elevation of the sun.

The study analyzes the interactions on the Moon among electrostatic adhesive forces, the angle of incidence of the sun's rays, and lunar gravity. It concludes that the stickiness of lunar dust on a vertical surface changes as the sun moves higher in the sky, eventually allowing the very weak lunar gravity to pull the dust off.

A project supported by the Austrian Science Fund FWF wants to uncover the history, significance and precise origins of Islamic art contained in Viennese art collections; comprehensive work to reconstruct the background of several Ottoman flags has already been carried out with impressive results.

Traces of the era of the Turkish wars - such as the tradition of the Vienna coffee house and the Ring boulevard that encircles the city centre - are still evident today in the day-to-day culture and street layout of the Austrian capital. The Turkish sieges of Vienna (16th/17th century) led to an expansion of the city's fortifications and heralded the introduction of coffee.

People are always going on about the life expectancy of babies and people in general.   Now quantum states are getting their due.

For the first time, scientists have succeeded in measuring and controlling the lifetime of quantum states with potential use in optoelectronic chips. This achievement is highly significant for the ongoing development of this cutting-edge technology. The breakthrough involved measuring the intersubband relaxation time of charge states in silicon-germanium SiGe structures on a picosecond scale. Experiments have also shown that it is possible to control and extend these times. As a result, this body of work  represents a major advance in the development of data processing based on optoelectronic chips.