SAN FRANCISCO, January 5 /PRNewswire/ --

Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: DLR), the world's largest wholesale datacentre provider, has been recognised for Innovation in an Outsourced Environment by the prestigious Datacentre Leaders' 2008 Awards. Digital Realty Trust received the honor for a Turn-Key Datacentre(TM) that Digital Realty Trust delivered to IBM to support growth of the company's hosting business in France.

LONDON, January 5 /PRNewswire/ -- You are invited to the launch of 'ECO Drive', a national campaign by Ford Retail Group in partnership with the Energy Saving Trust to encourage eco driving amongst the British public. Either before or after the media briefing, journalists can take part in a 45 minute ECO Drive lesson. You will experience firsthand the effectiveness and ease in adopting 'green' driving techniques which will save you fuel and money as well as cut CO2 emissions.

A new way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and tackle climate change had been unveiled by a group of  economists.   Or an old way, depending on how long you have been around.   Under their proposals, companies would buy what are in effect permits to pollute, but the price of those permits would be controlled because the government would retain enough, at a fixed price, to stop the cost increasing above that level. 

Yes, it is price controls all over again.  Welcome to 1972.

LONDON, January 5 /PRNewswire/ -- BIS Ltd is pleased to announce that Cluttons has extended its commercial relationship to include 24x7 server management and end-user support encompassing Cluttons' UK and Middle East Users.

Let's face it, with all that talk about life on other planets and dark matter, we lose sight of the big picture.  To start 2009 off right, the Milky Way, our galaxy, wants you to know she is not out of coolness yet.  To wit, new measurements of the Milky Way say our home Galaxy is rotating about 100,000 miles per hour faster than previously thought.

Physicists at Indiana University have developed a promising new way to identify a possible abnormality in a fundamental building block of Einstein's theory of relativity known as "Lorentz invariance." If confirmed, the abnormality would disprove the basic tenet that the laws of physics remain the same for any two objects traveling at a constant speed or rotated relative to one another.

IU distinguished physics professor Alan Kostelecky and graduate student Jay Tasson take on the long-held notion of the exact symmetry promulgated in Einstein's 1905 theory and show in a paper to be published in the Jan. 9 issue of Physical Review Letters that there may be unexpected violations of Lorentz invariance that can be detected in specialized experiments.

Women with bulimia nervosa appear to respond more impulsively during psychological testing than those without eating disorders, and brain scans show differences in areas responsible for regulating behavior, according to a report in the January issue of Archives of General Psychiatry.

Commonly used pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccines do not appear to be effective for preventing pneumonia, found a study by a team of researchers from Switzerland and the United Kingdom writing in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

In many industrialized countries, polysaccharide pneumococcal vaccines (PPVs) are currently recommended to help prevent pneumococcal disease in people aged 65 and over and for younger people with increased risk due to conditions like HIV. Studies have shown conflicting results regarding the efficacy of PPV. 

Astronomers have turned to an unexpected place to study the evolution of planets -- dead stars. 

Observations made with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveal six dead "white dwarf" stars littered with the remains of shredded asteroids. This might sound pretty bleak, but it turns out the chewed-up asteroids are teaching astronomers about the building materials of planets around other stars. 

So far, the results suggest that the same materials that make up Earth and our solar system's other rocky bodies could be common in the universe. If the materials are common, then rocky planets could be, too. 

Iowa State University's Martin Pohl is part of a research team that has developed the first complete map of the Milky Way galaxy's spiral arms.

The map shows the inner part of the Milky Way has two prominent, symmetric spiral arms, which extend into the outer galaxy where they branch into four spiral arms.

"For the first time these arms are mapped over the entire Milky Way," said Pohl, an Iowa State associate professor of physics and astronomy. "The branching of two of the arms may explain why previous studies – using mainly the inner or mainly the outer galaxy – have found conflicting numbers of spiral arms."