WASHINGTON, May 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- New study shows inhaling long, thin carbon nanotubes may result in asbestos-related disease

A major study published today in Nature Nanotechnology suggests some forms of carbon nanotubes -- a poster child for the "nanotechnology revolution" -- could be as harmful as asbestos if inhaled in sufficient quantities.

The study used established methods to see if specific types of nanotubes have the potential to cause mesothelioma -- a cancer of the lung lining that can take 30-40 years to appear following exposure. The results show that long, thin multi-walled carbon nanotubes that look like asbestos fibers, behave like asbestos fibers.

REDMOND, Washington, May 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- Company announces display advertising on Windows Live for mobile services, search advertising in beta on Live Search Mobile.

Today at Microsoft Corp's online advertising leadership forum, advance08, Brian McAndrews, senior vice president of the Advertiser & Publisher Solutions Group, announced the availability of display advertising across two popular Windows Live for mobile services, the launch of new markets for Windows Live for mobile services, and upcoming advertising plans for its Live Search Mobile offering. This marks the first year that mobile advertising has played a leading role at the industry event that brings together some of the most influential thought leaders of the global advertising community.

In the perpetual fight over evolution in public schools, there is good news and bad news. The good news is that supporters of science education have largely been successful in shutting down creationist attempts to undermine evolution through state legislatures and state school boards. While there is still mischief going on in many state legislatures, these efforts rarely go anywhere, thanks to vigilance by supporters of good science education. An essay in PLoS Biology today argues that, at the state level, things are going well:

At this time, not a single state uses its content standards to explicitly promote ID or creationism. School boards are monitored by organizations like the National Center for Science Education, by state academies of science, and by local scientific and professional organizations. As a result, few state school boards can formally consider measures like the one adopted in Dover without scrutiny and challenge from organizations representing the scientific profession.

But here comes the bad news:

There are many reasons to believe that scientists are winning in the courts, but losing in the classroom.

TORONTO, May 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- Data Presented at the 2008 International Conference of the American Thoracic Society

Laboratorios Almirall, S.A. and Forest Laboratories, Inc. today presented results from four clinical trials assessing the efficacy and safety of aclidinium bromide, an investigational treatment for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Data from four preclinical studies further describing the properties of aclidinium were also presented at the meeting.

NEW YORK, May 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Mapping Tool Plots Geographical Search Results on a Digital Map, Providing Further Insight Into the Geographic Context of Results

Engineering Village, an Elsevier online search platform that provides database content and analysis for engineering researchers, announced today the addition of the American Geological Institute's GeoRef database to its content offerings. In addition, the new GeoRef database and Engineering Village's existing GeoBase database have both been 'mashed-up' with Google Maps to create a unique results mapping tool.

A segment on ABC’s Good Morning America May 19 caught my attention, so much so that I spent a good chunk of time attempting to find research to back up the claims. The idea itself seems to be obvious – if you have a neurological disorder affecting your brain, you should examine the brain in order to figure out exactly what’s going on to figure out how to best treat the problem, right? I am not a neurologist, so my thinking could be flawed. A comment by the doctor featured in the segment made sense to me, though: diagnosing children with behavioral disorders like ADHD and autism without looking at their brains is like trying to diagnose heart problems without actually looking at the heart.

SOUTHFIELD, Michigan, May 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- Powerful, online system now available for analyzing the European automotive industry

R. L. Polk & Co. today announced the launch of PolkInsight(TM) for the European marketplace, which provides automotive analysts and marketers with instant access to a wide range of European automotive information to help identify sales trends, understand competitors' performance and develop marketing strategies.

CLOSTER, New Jersey, May 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- Ericom extends its leadership in multi-hypervisor support

Ericom Software, a global leader in Application Access and Virtualization solutions and a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, today announced that PowerTerm(R) WebConnect, Ericom's presentation virtualization and desktop virtualization (VDI) solution, now provides centrally managed access to virtual desktops running on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, a hypervisor-based virtualization platform.

LONDON and PARIS, May 20 /PRNewswire/ -- ePages and the European shopping portal LeGuide.com now cooperate to offer Europe's online merchants even better marketing opportunities. With over 40,000 merchants and more than 130 million products, LeGuide.com is the largest shopping portal in Europe. In the United Kingdom, LeGuide.com lists over 23 million products and 3,500 online merchants.

Starting immediately, ePages is offering a seamless and easy access to the local shopping portals of the French market leader in 11 European countries and in 6 languages, for instance Webmarchand.com in France, Mercamania.es in Spain and Gooster.de in Germany.

NEW YORK, May 20 /PRNewswire/ --

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- Growth still high, but from a very small base

In spite of media hype around social networking, worldwide advertising spending on social networks has not met expectations. eMarketer has revised its worldwide social network ad spending estimates, now projecting that advertisers will spend 1 billion pounds Sterling on social networks worldwide in 2008, rising to only 2.2 billion pounds in 2011. The previous figure for 2011 was 2.4 billion pounds.

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