LONDON, July 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- Manutd.com Ranks as Most Popular Premiership Club Site

- Premierleague.com Derives 55 Percent of its Online Audience from Outside the U.K.

comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released the results of a study on visitation to the official Web sites of Premiership football clubs, based on data from the comScore World Metrix audience measurement service. The study revealed that the majority of traffic to the Web sites of the "Big Four" Premiership clubs -- Manchester, Liverpool, Arsenal, and Chelsea -- now originates from outside of the U.K.

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Premiership Champions Manchester United Also Reign Online in U.K.

SAN FRANCISCO, California, July 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- Kenshoo Ltd, the Provider of the Leading 3rd generation SEM Automation Platform, is Announcing the Opening of Kenshoo Inc. Headquarters in the West Coast, USA.

Kenshoo has announced today the establishment of Kenshoo Inc. which will be headquartered in San Francisco, California. Together with Kenshoo UK, Kenshoo Inc. will give Kenshoo an office presence across 11 time zones covering all of Europe, North America, Asia and Australia.

A group of scientists who set out to study sex pheromones in a tiny worm found that the same family of pheromones also controls a stage in the worms' life cycle, the long-lived dauer larva. The findings in Nature represent the first time that reproduction and lifespan have been linked through so-called small molecules.

Where scientists once focused on DNA and proteins as the major players in an organism's biology, they are now realizing that smaller, but more structurally diverse chemicals - simply called "small molecules" - are a significant part of a living thing's biology. "They're as important to biology as the genes are," says Frank Schroeder, last author of the paper and a scientist at the Boyce Thompson Institute.

SENSOPAC, an EU-funded project whose goal is to create a robotic arm, hand and brain with human-like physical and cognitive capabilities, is bringing human-like robots closer to reality - their newest electronic brain is modelled on the human cerebellum.

Existing robots, such as those that help assemble cars or computers, can perform repetitive actions quickly and precisely. However, says Patrick van der Smagt, the coordinator of SENSOPAC, “they are not very intelligent or flexible and they don’t do very much sensing.”

While the movies have convinced many people that humanoid robots, such as C-3PO or WALL-E are realistic, van der Smagt knows all too well how difficult it is to build robots with even basic human abilities.

For the first time, a team of international researchers has found a way to view the accretion disks surrounding black holes and verify that their true electromagnetic spectra match what astronomers have long predicted they would be.

A black hole and its bright accretion disk have been thought to form a quasar, the powerful light source at the center of some distant galaxies. Using a polarizing filter, the research team, which included Robert Antonucci and Omer Blaes, professors of physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, isolated the light emitted by the accretion disk from that produced by other matter in the vicinity of the black hole.

A recent study shows that popular fish oil supplements have an effect on the healing process of small, acute wounds in human skin. But whether that effect is detrimental, as researchers initially suspected, remains a mystery.

The omega-3 fatty acids found in fish oils are widely considered to benefit cardiovascular health and other diseases related to chronic inflammation because of their anti-inflammatory properties. But insufficient inflammation during the initial stage of wound healing may delay the advancement of later stages.

LONDON, July 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- Software Solves the Challenges of Converting Pinnacle Files to New Omneon Playout Servers

AmberFin is pleased to announce the first results from its extensive work with Turner Entertainment Networks, a division of leading U.S. broadcaster Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS, Inc.). By implementing AmberFin iCR Turner has resolved the incompatibility issues between its existing Pinnacle and incoming Omneon playout servers, saving over 46,000 hours of reingesting time and making over 200,000 video files accessible on its new servers.

CHICAGO, July 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- Delivers Advanced Targeting and Campaign Optimization, Upholds Strict Consumer Permission & Data Privacy Standards

TOKYO, July 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- FIFA World Player of the Year (2007) to Promote Sony High Definition Products Globally

Sony Corporation today announced that Sony Latin America, Inc has signed a worldwide endorsement contract with Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite, better known as Kaká, FIFA's 2007 World Player of the Year.

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Kaká, renowned all over the world for his skill with a football, but especially in Europe and South America where football is an abiding passion, will globally promote Sony's High Definition (HD) products and a wide range of other Sony products.

Wealthy nations willing to collectively spend about $1 billion annually could prevent the emission of roughly half a billion metric tons of carbon dioxide per year for the next 25 years, says a new study. It would take about that much money to put an end to a tenth of the tropical deforestation in the world, which would lead to lower greenhouse gas emissions, they say, and reduce global carbon emissions by between 2 and 10 percent.

The calculation is one of several estimates described by a team of scientists and economists this week in the online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The calculations, based on three different forestry and land-use models, provide the best estimates so far of how much it would cost developed nations to participate in a program called "avoided deforestation" to reduce worldwide carbon emissions.