GENEVA, Switzerland, March 2 /PRNewswire/ --

- Prestigious Energy Event to use WISeKey's Social Networking Platform on the Internet

GENEVA, Switzerland, March 2 /PRNewswire/ --

The Geneva Energy Pact Foundation will be holding the Energy Pact Conference (http://www.energypact.org/homepage/homepage.php) in Geneva on March 16-17, 2009. The Conference, whose international media partner is the Financial Times, is organized with the support of the Republic and Canton of Geneva. It will address for the first time in a comprehensive and integrated manner the key issues of energy needs and environmental and developmental challenges. The event will be using the High Trusted Social Network Platform, an exclusive social network developed by Geneva-based WISekey.

MANCHESTER, England, March 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Epistem Plc (LSE:EHP) the UK biotechnology and research services company announced today that they have signed a research and development collaboration with Novartis to identify new drug targets and therapeutics across a variety of disease areas.

The collaboration combines Epistem's stem cell expertise and drug discovery programme, with Novartis's insights into disease pathways bioinformatics.

LONDON, March 2 /PRNewswire/ --

The current economic crisis has hit the EU Waste Management Market hard and the recycling sector has borne the brunt of the blow. Falling prices of recyclables has lead to vast volumes of unattended waste piling up in landfills and warehouses.

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LONDON, March 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Girlguiding UK's new secure and dynamic online services portal will be ready in time for their Centenary Year celebrations which begin in September 2009 and continue until October 2010. Through a partnership with BIS this technology investment underlines Girlguiding UK as a modern, forward thinking organisation and reflects their commitment to providing relevant skills to their members in the 21st century.

LETCHWORTH, England, March 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Navevo, the UK's leading specialist GPS software developer, has today announced that it will be unveiling the new ProNav PNN200E at CeBIT 2009, the European version of its specialist satellite navigation solution for drivers of commercial vehicles.

As part of a strategic move to provide dedicated sat-nav solutions to the commercial vehicle market worldwide and following on from the successful launch of ProNav in the UK, Navevo's ProNav PNN200E, featuring Western European maps, is set to make its way into mainland Europe.

ROLLE, Switzerland, March 2 /PRNewswire/ --

- Innovative Sequential Boosting System Enables V8 Performance in a V6 Engine

Honeywell (NYSE: HON) has launched a unique groundbreaking turbo technology that is enabling the new Jaguar XF 3.0L V6 Diesel to reduce fuel consumption by 12% and CO2 emissions by 10% compared to its predecessor. In addition, this new boosting system allows the V6 engine to achieve performance levels of current V8 diesel engines.

MAIDENHEAD, England, March 2 /PRNewswire/ --

- Prevenar Vaccine Helps Protect Against Leading Vaccine-Preventable Cause of Death in Young Children Worldwide

Wyeth announced today that its 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, Prevenar(TM) (Pneumococcal saccharide conjugated vaccine, Adsorbed), has been registered by the Russian Ministry of Health and Social Development (Roszdravnadzor) and is expected to be commercially available later this year. Prevenar (also referred to as PCV7), the global standard in pneumococcal disease prevention for infants and young children, helps protect against the seven pneumococcal serotypes contained in the vaccine that cause the majority of pneumococcal disease worldwide.

Using ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have gained new insights about the atmosphere of Pluto - (it's a dwarf now, get over it.)

What stands out?   Large amounts of methane in the atmosphere and it's hotter than the surface by about 40 degrees, though -180 degrees Celsius is still not the place for your interplanetary tropical vacation. These properties of Pluto's atmosphere may be due to the presence of pure methane patches or of a methane-rich layer covering the dwarf planet's surface.

Astronomers using a telescope aboard the NASA Swift Satellite have captured information from the early stages of a gamma ray burst - the most violent and luminous explosions occurring in the Universe since the Big Bang.

Swift is able to both locate and point at gamma ray bursts (GRBs) far quicker than any other telescope, so by using its Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) the astronomers were able to obtain an ultraviolet spectrum of a GRB just 251 seconds after its onset - the earliest ever captured. Further use of the instrument in this way will allow them to calculate the distance and brightness of GRBs within a few hundred seconds of their initial outburst, and gather new information about the causes of bursts and the galaxies they originate from.

When Alan Pradel of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris CAT scanned a 300-million-year-old fossilized iniopterygian from Kansas, he and his colleagues saw a symmetrical blob nestled within the braincase.

This turned out to be the oldest brain found in fossil form, a wholly unexpected and rare discovery.