New research into gigantic flying reptiles has found that they weren’t all gull-like predators grabbing fish from the water but that some were strongly adapted for life on the ground.

Pterosaurs lived during the age of dinosaurs 230 to 65 million years ago. A new study by researchers at the University of Portsmouth on one particular type of pterosaur, the azhdarchids, claims they were more likely to stalk animals on foot than to fly.

Until now virtually all pterosaurs have been imagined by palaeontologists to have lived like modern seabirds: as gull- or pelican-like predators that flew over lakes and oceans, grabbing fish from the water. But a study of azhdarchid anatomy, footprints and the distribution of their fossils by Mark Witton and Dr Darren Naish shows that this stereotype does not apply to all flying reptiles and some were strongly adapted for terrestrial life.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- Virgin Radio selects coComment to power conversations, host all online comments

coComment, the leading platform for managing, powering and researching, discovering, tracking and sharing great conversations online, announced a partnership with the UK's favourite national rock and pop station Virgin Radio (http://www.virginradio.co.uk), a part of Scottish Media Group: SMG.L. coCommment will power conversations on Virgin Radio's award-winning site enabeling the station's 4.5 million monthly listeners to bring radio discussions online and keep these conversations alive, well after the broadcast has ended.

PITTSBURGH, May 27 /PRNewswire/ --

Tube City IMS, LLC, a provider of products and services to steel mills and foundries throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Mexico, South America and Asia, today announced that its Tube City Division has opened its first trading offices in Singapore, and Gent, Belgium, and has expanded its representative trading offices in Jakarta, Indonesia, and Beijing, China.

J. David Aronson, Executive Vice President -- Outsource Purchasing, Tube City Division, Tube City IMS, said all four offices are in prime locations from which the Company can grow its markets in the Asia-Pacific region and Europe.

NEW YORK, May 27 /PRNewswire/ --

Kontor New Media, a top European leader in digital distribution, and Qtrax, the world's first free and legal peer-to-peer (P2P) music service, today announce that they have signed a digital licensing agreement.

Kontor's business model works to ensure that its indie partner labels' music and music video content are featured in key download shops such as iTunes, Napster, FNAC, Beatport, Nokia Music Services, musicload, AOL -- and now Qtrax. The Germany-based company works with hundreds of independent European music labels.

NEW YORK, May 27 /PRNewswire/ --

The era of easy oil is over and the race is on to produce tomorrow's oil from new and more hostile frontier environments. The construction of the hull of one of the world's deepest oil production facilities is now complete and today it started to make its 8,200 mile journey from the shipyard in Pori, Finland, to Texas, USA.

(See video from Shell at: http://media.medialink.com/WebNR.aspx?story=35150)

The massive steel spar structure, which is as tall as the Eiffel Tower, and weighs as much as 10,000 family cars, forms part of Shell's most ambitious deepwater offshore oil and gas development ever undertaken and will be the world's deepest spar production facility.

HELSINKI, Finland, May 27 /PRNewswire/ --

Marioff Corporation Oy has been selected by the Helsinki Public Works Department to install a HI-FOG(R) Water Mist Fire Protection System in the city's new underground tunnel service network. The installation will be Finland's first automatic tunnel fire protection system. Marioff is part of UTC Fire & Security, a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX).

The Helsinki underground service network will direct road traffic under the downtown area, allowing the city to expand its pedestrian zones. The project includes a two-kilometre service tunnel, one kilometre of which will be protected by the new HI-FOG(R) system.

As fossil fuel emissions continue to climb, reducing the amount of sunlight hitting the Earth would definitely have a cooling effect on surface temperatures.

The reduction in sunlight can be accomplished by geoengineering schemes. There are two classes: the so-called “sunshade” geoengineering scheme, which would mitigate climate change by intentionally manipulating the solar radiation on the earth's surface; the other category removes atmospheric CO2 and sequesters it into the terrestrial vegetation, oceans or deep geologic formations.

However, a new study from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, led by atmospheric scientist Govindasamy Bala, shows that this intentional manipulation of solar radiation also could lead to a less intense global water cycle. Decreasing surface temperatures through “geoengineering” also could mean less rainfall.

Eta Carinae has the shape of a 'little man' and surrounds a star doomed to explode within the next 100 000 years.

Being brighter than one million Suns, Eta Carinae is the most luminous star known in the Galaxy. It is the closest example of a luminous blue variable, the last phase in the life of a very massive star before it explodes in a fiery supernova.

Eta Carinae is surrounded by an expanding bipolar cloud of dust and gas known as the Homunculus ('little man' in Latin), which astronomers believe was expelled from the star during a great outburst seen in 1843 [1].

PARIS, May 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- Collaborative groups set out to confirm potential benefits of anticancer therapies to treat women with breast cancer

A new international study for women with HER2-positive breast cancer is open for enrollment. The pivotal BETH (BEvacizumab and Trastuzumab Adjuvant Therapy in HER2-positive Breast Cancer) study is a Phase III clinical research trial that is investigating the benefits of combining two monoclonal antibodies, the anti-angiogenic, bevacizumab (Avastin(R)) and the targeted therapy trastuzumab (Herceptin(R)), together with chemotherapy for the treatment of patients with early stage HER2-positive breast cancer.

While estrogen is typically thought of as a "female" hormone, men produce it as well. Researchers say they have pinpointed estrogen as a key player in about half of all prostate cancers.

The findings are published in the May 27 online edition of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Mark A. Rubin, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, and vice chair for experimental pathology at Weill Cornell Medical College, conducted the study while at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and in collaboration with Dr. Todd Golub and other members of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, in Cambridge, Mass.

first discovered and described the common fusions between the TMPRSS2 and ETS family member genes subset of prostate cancer in the journal Science in 2005. "The discovery showed that these malignancies occur after an androgen (male hormone)-dependent gene fuses with an oncogene -- a type of gene that causes cancer," he explains.