NEW YORK, July 24 /PRNewswire/ --

- EU-5 mobile music retail revenues to exceed US$1.4 billion in 2012

Europe's mobile music scene is more advanced than that in the US. While the UK is the biggest individual mobile music market in the EU-5, the other countries -- France, Germany, Italy and Spain -- are reporting sharp growth as well. eMarketer predicts that mobile music retail revenues in the EU-5 will reach over US$1.4 billion by 2012, up from US$267 million in 2007. eMarketer expects ad-supported mobile music in the EU-5 to reach US$170 million in 2012, up from US$4.6 million in 2007.

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Somewhere, people got the idea that girls were not as good at math as boys and that was a cultural issue - discrimination on one side or favoritism on the other - and it had to be fixed, usually with legislation and money for social activists.

Is there any truth to it?

After sifting through mountains of data, including SAT results and math scores from 7 million students who were tested in accordance with the No Child Left Behind Act, a team of scientists reporting in Science says the answer is 'no.' Whether they looked at average performance, the scores of the most gifted children or students' ability to solve complex math problems, girls measured up to boys.

CD4+ T lymphocytes, or simply CD4 T cells, are the "brains" of the immune system, coordinating its activity when the body comes under attack. They are also the cells that are attacked by HIV, the devastating virus that causes AIDS and has infected roughly 40 million people worldwide. The virus slowly eats away at CD4 T cells, weakening the immune system.

But the immune systems of HIV/AIDS patients face another enemy as well — stress, which can accelerate CD4 T cell declines. Now, researchers at UCLA report that the practice of mindfulness meditation stopped the decline of CD4 T cells in HIV-positive patients suffering from stress, slowing the progression of the disease. The study was just published in the journal Brain, Behavior, and Immunity.

RESTON, Virginia, July 24 /PRNewswire/ --

- As families hit the road this summer, more will be turning to the mobile device for turn-by-turn directions.

- Mobile map usage growing much faster than online map usage

LONDON, July 24 /PRNewswire/ --

Nearly half of lazy UK fellas believe they come up with their greatest ideas whilst resting on their mattress, whilst 1 in 10 think they find their most useful inspiration on the loo.

The poll also found Britons picked the internet (36%) as the greatest invention or discovery in the world, followed by antibiotics (27%) and computers (20%).

Using ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer, astronomers were able to witness for the first time the appearance of a shell of dusty gas around a star that had just erupted and follow its evolution for more than 100 days. This provided the astronomers with a new way to estimate the distance of this object and obtain invaluable information on the operating mode of stellar vampires, dense stars that suck material from a companion.

Although novae were first thought to be new stars appearing in the sky, hence their Latin name, they are now understood as signaling the brightening of a small, dense star. Novae occur in double star systems comprising a white dwarf - the end product of a solar-like star - and, generally, a low-mass normal star - a red dwarf. The two stars are so close together that the red dwarf cannot hold itself together and loses mass to its companion. Occasionally, the shell of matter that has fallen onto the ingesting star becomes unstable, leading to a thermonuclear explosion which makes the system brighter.

Themis was the blindfolded Greek goddess of order and justice. It's also a NASA-funded mission which stands for Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms - and, using it, UCLA space scientists and colleagues have identified the mechanism that triggers substorms in space; wreaks havoc on satellites, power grids and communications systems; and leads to the explosive release of energy that causes the spectacular brightening of the aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights.

For 30 years, there have been two competing theories to explain the onset of these substorms, which are energy releases in the Earth's magnetosphere, said Vassilis Angelopoulos, a UCLA professor of Earth and space sciences and principal investigator of THEMIS.

A new discovery contradicts the prevailing theory that aging is a buildup of tissue damage akin to rust in some metals, and implies science might eventually halt or even reverse the ravages of age.

Specific genetic instructions drive aging in worms, report researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

The researchers examined the regulation of aging in C. elegans, a millimeter-long nematode worm whose simple body and small number of genes make it a useful tool for biologists. The worms age rapidly: their maximum life span is about two weeks.

By using the gravitational magnification from six massive lensing galaxy clusters, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided scientists with the largest sample of very distant galaxies seen to date. Some of the newly found magnified objects are dimmer than the faintest ones seen in the legendary Hubble Ultra Deep Field, which is usually considered the deepest image of the Universe.

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, July 24 /PRNewswire/ --

Emirates Airline began use of ULTRAMAIN maintenance and integrated logistics software on June 2, 2008. ULTRAMAIN is developed by Ultramain Systems, Inc., (USI) of Albuquerque, NM, USA.