LONDON, May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Slovakia is a key transit route for power flows between the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Austria and cracked open its electricity market to competition in July 2007.

During the same year, the country ceased being a net exporter of power due to the decommissioning of an outdated nuclear reactor and is now depending on imports from neighbouring countries.

While investors and traders are taking an interest in an increasingly liquid Slovak wholesale market, administrative restrictions - such as the introduction of an electricity export fee - continue to make it a challenging hub to enter.

HOUSTON, May 21 /PRNewswire/ --

Endeavour International Corporation (Amex: END) (LSE: ENDV) today announced that the 6407/8-4S exploration well has discovered natural gas in the Jurassic Garn formation at the Galtvort prospect on production license 348 in the Norwegian North Sea. Comprehensive data collection and sampling were conducted. The Galtvort 6407/8-4S well was drilled to a vertical depth of 2,632 meters subsea (8,635 feet) in a water depth of 266 meters (873 feet).

The 6407/8-4A appraisal sidetrack well will be drilled immediately after the discovery well is finished and will target the Jurassic Garn and Ile formations in an up dip location approximately half a kilometer (2,000 feet) to the northeast of the bottom hole location of the discovery well.

Plant-eating animals in highly seasonal environments, such as the Arctic, are struggling to locate nutritious food as a result of climate change, according to research in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

The research, which focused on caribou, suggests that not only are these animals arriving at their breeding grounds too late in the season to enjoy the peak availability of food - the focus of previous research by Post - but they also are suffering from a reduced ability to locate the few high-quality plants that remain before these plants, too, become unavailable.

The team focused their research on caribou in West Greenland as an example of an herbivore species in a seasonal environment. Closely related to wild reindeer, caribou are dependent on plants for all their energy and nutrients. In the spring, they switch from eating lichens buried beneath the snow to munching the new growth of willows, sedges, and flowering tundra herbs. As the birth season approaches, they are cued by increasing daylight to migrate into areas where this newly-emergent food is plentiful.

SYDNEY, May 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- Spb Online Shell is a Convergence of Online and Media Tools, Targeted to Helping Mobile Network Operators Expand Their Online Services Portfolios and Meet High-End Customization Needs.

SYDNEY, May 21 /PRNewswire/ --

Today at CeBIT Australia, Spb Software House, a leading mobile applications vendor, showcased Spb Online Shell - a practical on-device access point to online multimedia content and services. Spb Online Shell will help mobile network operators deliver improved content experiences to subscribers.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Today at the World Congress of Cardiology (WCC), the press conference entitled "New Perspectives in Atrial Fibrillation Management" chaired by John Camm, Professor of Clinical Cardiology, St George's University of London, highlighted the importance of the newly announced ATHENA clinical trial results, as the way forward in the future management of Atrial fibrillation, the most common form of cardiac arrhythmia.

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NEW YORK, May 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- Empowering Next Generation Smart Grid -

Bayard Group Pty Ltd. today announced it is creating the new leader in energy management by uniting its family of green technology companies under one global brand, Landis+Gyr, a name synonymous with technological innovation in energy measurement for more than a century.

The new Landis+Gyr -- with over 5,000 employees and operations in 30 countries across five continents -- reinforces the Company's commitment to provide utilities with end-to-end, advanced metering solutions that are empowering the next generation of smart grid -- driving better environmental results for utilities, consumers and society.

Astronomers have seen the aftermath of spectacular stellar explosions known as supernovae before, but until now no one has witnessed a star dying in real time. While looking at another object in the spiral galaxy NGC 2770, using NASA’s orbiting Swift telescope, Carnegie-Princeton fellows* Alicia Soderberg and Edo Berger detected an extremely luminous blast of X-rays released by a supernova explosion.

They alerted 8 other orbiting and on-ground telescopes to turn their eyes on this first-of-its-kind event.

“We were in the right place, at the right time, with the right telescope on January 9th and witnessed history,” remarked Soderberg. “We were looking at another, older supernova in the galaxy, when the one now known as SN 2008D went off. We would have missed it if it weren’t for Swift’s real-time capabilities, wide field of view, and numerous instruments.”

New research by the Gladstone Institutes of Cardiovascular Disease (GICD) and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), has revealed the genetic determinants of fat storage in cells, which may lead to a new understanding of and potential treatments for obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. While scientists have long understood that lipid droplets contribute to fat build up in cells, the genes involved in droplet biology have been a focus of extensive research.

In a study published in Nature, scientists in the laboratories of Drs. Robert V. Farese, Jr., of Gladstone and UCSF, and Peter Walter, of UCSF, devised a genetic screen to identify genes responsible for fat storage in cell of fruit flies, and potentially other species.

New research in the Society of Chemical Industry’s Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture shows that oregano oil works as well as synthetic insecticides to combat infestation by a common beetle, Rhizoppertha dominica, found in stored cereals.

Not only does oregano oil work as well as synthetic versions but it has none of the associated side effects of synthetic insecticides on the environment.

Growing resistance to synthetic insecticides combined with potential environmental damage and new government directives on changes to the way chemicals are registered means that scientists are increasingly looking at natural alternatives that can be produced in the large scale quantities needed for agricultural industry use.

BELLEVUE, Washington and MALLORCA, Spain, May 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- Deal marks first ever agreement covering all Sol Melia properties worldwide

Expedia, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXPE), the world's leading online travel company, today announced it has signed a long term, strategic global supply agreement with Sol Melia, the leading Spanish hotel chain in both the city and resort markets and world leader in resort hotels. Under the agreement, all Sol Melia properties will be available for booking on Expedia(R) and hotels.com(R) branded sites worldwide. This is the first agreement between Expedia and Sol Melia, and marks the first distribution agreement for Sol Melia covering all of its properties globally.