PARIS, September 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- The Five Companies Launch a Ready to Deploy End to End System Offer Based on the OMA BCAST SmartCard Profile Standard (SCP) Handsets Encompassing all Major Systems Required to Deploy a Mobile TV Services

MELBOURNE, Australia, September 22 /PRNewswire/ --

Gaffney Cline and Associates (GCA) have completed their independent review of the Galoc oil field, updating the reserves certification with the information obtained during the development drilling and well testing.

This review has resulted in a material uplift across all three categories of reserves -- proved, probable and possible. Reserves at the "proved" level, which represents the 90% confidence level, have increased by 64% which provides confidence in a stronger, longer-term production profile for the field.

ANAHEIM, California, September 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- Sius(TM) is a Breakthrough Single-use Product for Tangential- Flow-Filtration (TFF) Applications in the Downstream Processing of Biopharmaceuticals. Sius(TM) Provides Economic Savings as Well as a Better use of Time and Resources Without Compromising Product Quality or Yield

ANAHEIM, California, September 22 /PRNewswire/ --

Novasep, a global leader in advanced separation technologies for downstream processing of biopharmaceuticals, introduced the firm's first pre-sanitized single-use, ready-to-use cassette (Sius(TM)) at the 2008 BioProcess International Conference.

Have you ever seen a giraffe wait in line? We haven't either. But if you go to an Olive Garden on a Sunday at 5:00 PM and see the line waiting patiently for a Never-Ending Pasta Bowl (and, let's face it, you can't eat more than one anyway) you may wonder if we're really the smartest species.

An international team of earth scientists report movement of warmed sea water through the flat, Pacific Ocean floor off Costa Rica. The movement is greater than that off midocean volcanic ridges. The finding suggests possible marine life in a part of the ocean once considered barren.

With about 71 percent of the Earth's surface being ocean, much remains unknown about what is under the sea, its geology, and the life it supports. A new finding reported by American, Canadian and German earth scientists suggests a rather unremarkable area off the Costa Rican Pacific coast holds clues to better understand sea floor ecosystems.

If your lover's singing is sometimes sexy and sometimes annoying, a change in hormones may be the reason.

A songbird study led by Donna Maney,assistant professor of psychology and a member of the Graduate Program in Neuroscience at Emory University, says it sheds new light on this issue, showing that a change in hormone levels may alter the way we perceive social cues by altering a system of brain nuclei, common to all vertebrates, called the "social behavior network."

Their research examines how genes, hormones and the environment interact to affect the brain, using songbirds as a model and helps provide an understanding of the basic principles underlying brain structure and function common to many species, including humans.

A gamma-ray burst is, in a sense, a look back in time. Scientists have now seen one that happened farther back in time than any other seen before. Even before the existence of the Milky Way.

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most powerful and brightest explosions of energy in our universe. They last only a few milliseconds to several minutes and they outshine all other sources of gamma rays combined. Astronomers now think that most GRBs are associated with the explosive deaths of massive stars. These stars collapse and explode when they run out of nuclear fuel.

GENEVA, Switzerland, September 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- Study Meets Primary Endpoint by Demonstrating Significant Effect of new Formulation of Rebif(R) on Disease Activity as Measured by MRI After 16 Weeks of Treatment

- Data Presented at Late-Breaking Session of the World Congress on Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis in Montreal, Canada

Imagine you can never do the simplest memory orientation task, like finding your way home from the grocery store. In a world where most of us take our ability to do 'cognitive mapping' of our environment for granted, being lost all of the time like that can be terrifying.

Writing in Neuropsychologia, a study led by Giuseppe Iaria, a University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine and Vancouver Coastal Health Authority postdoctoral fellow, used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) together with behavioral studies to assess and characterize the navigational deficiencies of a patient who is completely unable to orient within any environment, getting lost even within the neighborhood where the patient lived for many years.

With all the hype surrounding the Large Hadron Collider, it's easy to forget that there are lots of other puzzles in physics still being tackled every day.

The Kondo effect, one of the few examples in physics where many particles collectively behave as one object (a single quantum-mechanical body), has intrigued scientists around the world for decades.

When a single magnetic atom is located inside a metal, the free electrons of the metal 'screen' the atom. That way, a cloud of many electrons around the atom becomes magnetized. Sometimes, if the metal is cooled down to very low temperatures, the atomic spin enters a so-called 'quantum superposition' state. In this state its north-pole points in two opposite directions at the same time. As a result, the entire electron cloud around the spin will also be simultaneously magnetized in two directions.