A new analysis of Martian soil data led by University of California, Berkeley, geoscientists suggests that there was once enough water in the planet's atmosphere for a light drizzle or dew to hit the ground, leaving tell-tale signs of its interaction with the planet's surface.

The study's conclusion breaks from the more dominant view that the liquid water that once existed during the red planet's infancy came mainly in the form of upwelling groundwater rather than rain.

To come up with their conclusions, the UC Berkeley-led researchers used published measurements of soil from Mars that were taken by various NASA missions: Viking 1, Viking 2, Pathfinder, Spirit and Opportunity. These five missions provided information on soil from widely distant sites surveyed between 1976 and 2006.

STARNBERG, Germany, June 25 /PRNewswire/ --

The world's leading IT research and advisory company Gartner has positioned Crossgate in the latest report, "Magic Quadrant for Integration Service Providers". Crossgate is positioned in the Leaders Quadrant among the vendors in this sector. Crossgate believes this positioning highlights the importance of the recently established cooperation with SAP AG, especially in terms of recognition, visibility and international focus.

Gartner positioned Crossgate in the Leaders Quadrant in the "Magic Quadrant for Integration Service Providers"(1) published at the end of May.

LONDON, June 25 /PRNewswire/ --

- Online Video Solutions Launched Exclusively for Companies, Media Groups and Communications Agencies

Kewego, the web video expert, has announced the European launch of a new range of web video solutions, specifically tailored to the needs of business users.

Video broadcasting is no longer the single criterion on which professionals base their choice of online video solution.

To guarantee a successful video strategy, companies, media groups and communications agencies are now looking for richer services:

- Their video player, their Web TV and even their video portal need to drive the company's brand image, boost interaction with visitors and enhance the users' online experience.

LONDON, June 25 /PRNewswire/ --

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A new section on the website of the Austrian National Tourist Office UK & Ireland http://www.austriatourism.com/uk is highlighting the country's strong eco-friendly travel options for visitors. Although being green is a way of life for Austrians they have until now not heralded their green credentials as much as other tourist destinations.

WOKING, England, June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- The UK construction industry has made progress but still has much work to do in other key areas if it is to match the ideal of the modern, sustainable construction industry visualised in the report authored by Sir John Egan 10 years ago.

This is the overall conclusion of a survey published today by BIW Technologies, a leading UK-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider to the property/construction sector.

Highlights

- 55% thought that significant progress had been made on implementing Egan's overall recommendations

- Most progress has been in 'process improvement' and least in 'costs and defects'

MANCHESTER, England, June 25 /PRNewswire/ --

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A Bangladesh born girl who overcame racist bullying to become a big success is amongst nine young people to receive national awards at Parliament today.

Swansea based Sumi Begum had chairs thrown at her in the classroom when she began high school. But she soon made real friends, learnt to speak English and passed six GCSEs. Along with single mum Michelle Davis from Bury who successfully battled post-natal depression and Hollie Goodwin from Leicester who overcame an eating disorder to fashion a career in the rag trade, Sumi has been declared a "UK Achiever of the Year 2008."

LONDON, June 25 /PRNewswire/ --

- Few Countries Have Prioritised This Potentially Preventable and Curable Cancer

A classified assessment by the National Intelligence Council (NIC) says climate change could threaten U.S. security in the next 20 years by causing political instability, mass movements of refugees, terrorism, or wars over water. The House Intelligence Committee will get a briefing today on the main findings and the full report will be released Monday, June 30th.

It's the perfect storm of buzzwords. This might be check and mate for environmental activists. Relating global warming to terrorism is a masterstroke of logical and cultural hand trickery but what can Big Oil do, deny there is terrorism? No one is more impacted by sea level rise than the Dutch so look for that military build-up in Holland over the next few years. The Belgians have it coming.

The assessment itself is confidential, because the other 6 billion of us won't be impacted by global warming or world wars over water, but thankfully some analyses used as raw material will be open, including a series of studies done by Columbia University's Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN). On commission from NIC, CIESIN ranked countries by looking at three climate risks: sea-level rise, increased water scarcity, and an aggregate measure of vulnerability based on projected temperature change, compared with nations' ability to adapt.

The sexual and feminist revolutions were supposed to free women to enjoy casual sex just as men always had but according to Professor Anne Campbell from Durham University in the UK (1), the negative feelings reported by women after one-night stands suggest that they are not well adapted to fleeting sexual encounters.

Men are more likely to reproduce and therefore to benefit from numerous short-term partners. For women, however, quality seems to be more important than quantity. Also for women, finding partners of high genetic quality is a stronger motivator than sheer number, and it is commonly believed that women are more willing to have casual sex when there is a chance of forming a long-term relationship.

This University of Copenhagen press release says that they would like to be first to create a quantum computer. They have made no more progress than anyone else, really, but want us all to know that they are thinking about it.

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