TOWCESTER, England, May 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- Conference and Exhibition, Whittlebury Hall Near Towcester, Northants Friday, 12 June 2009

On Friday, 12 June 2009, Auditel will be hosting a Conference and Exhibition at Whittlebury Hall near Towcester, Northants. Auditel's partner companies for the event include EDF Energy, British Gas, Shell LPG, Travelex, Bluefin Insurance Services, Uniworld, UK Telco, Drivers Jonas, Inenco, Scottish and Southern Energy and Phase Office Supplies

The theme will be 'Growing Your Business in a Recession'. Together with our partners we will demonstrate how businesses can take advantage of the current economic climate, and prepare for better times ahead, to emerge stronger than before.

LONDON, May 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- Fibre Connectivity as Essential as Utilities in Winning Rent in 2009

2009 is set to continue to be a tough year for landlords in London, as businesses seek to decrease square-footage to reduce costs in the face of the recession. AboveNet, the fibre optic connectivity provider, is warning against the dangers of letting down '21st century' businesses by failing to provide tenants with the essential connectivity required to survive the downturn.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, May 20 /PRNewswire/ --

Terumo Heart Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Terumo Corporation, today announced reaching a critical milestone in the worldwide expansion of its DuraHeart(TM) Left-Ventricular Assist System (LVAS) as the 100th patient was treated by Latif Arusoglu, MD and Michiel Morshuis, MD, cardiothoracic surgeons at the Clinic for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart and Diabetes Center NRW, University Hospital of the Ruhr-University of Bochum in Bad Oeynhausen, Germany.

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Using ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have succeeded in measuring the size of giant galaxy Messier 87 - or what they thought there should be.    It turns out that its outer parts have been stripped away - and no one is yet sure how.   To add to its woes, the galaxy also appears to be on a collision course with another giant galaxy in this dynamic cluster.

Scientists sometimes regret when the terms they use in a scientific way get a colloquial meaning.   In physics, Peter Higgs has to like his name recognition but might edit out references to a 'God particle' if he had it to do over again, and in biology a week doesn't go by that biologists won't complain that people misunderstand the term 'junk DNA.'

Well, 'junk' had a meaning before biology and everyone knew it - junk DNA in biology isn't garbage yet it dominates the genome and seems to lack specific functions. Why nature would force the genome to carry so much excess baggage is a puzzle still unsolved.

Cambridge University researchers have discovered that whether someone is a 'people-person' may depend on the structure of their brain: the greater the concentration of brain tissue in certain parts of the brain, the more likely they are to be a warm, sentimental person.   Interestingly, the orbitofrontal cortex and ventral striatum have previously been shown to be important for the brain's processing of much simpler rewards like sweet tastes or sexual stimuli. 

LONDON, May 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- Imagination is more important than knowledge... Albert Einstein

If we adhere to the words of the great Albert Einstein we would be lead to believe that a person's imagination holds the key to any great discovery. Could then imagination be the key to fixing what knowledge could not?

In an unprecedented move a group of unnamed artists have sent waves through the world's fine arts communities as they sent out cheques equating to over 1 billion dollars heralding a defined message to the most prominent individuals of the art world.

What happens when a guy married to an art historian who dislikes religion writes a book using science?   "Angels&Demons", that's what.   It's the book Dan Brown wrote that made even less sense than "The DaVinci Code", because it was written before that blockbuster hit, even though the new movie seems like a sequel.  

Because it was written three years earlier, he had yet to refine his craft of jumbling vaguely non-specific pop social science with revisionist history - though he still knows he dislikes Catholics enough - and basically works in the expected conspiracy theory with some science as the weapon.

BURLINGTON, Massachusetts and ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, May 19 /PRNewswire/ --

InfraReDx, Inc. announced today the first use in patients of a novel coronary catheter that uses both light and sound to image coronary plaques. Working on a team led by Dr. Patrick Serruys, Dr. Martin van der Ent performed the procedures on May 11, 2009 in patients undergoing coronary angiography at the Thoraxcenter.

The politics of science is about more than just funding and science-based policy decisions: governments, and in particular the US Federal Government, are into science education in a big way, whether you like it or not. In fact, it's hard to see how the US government can avoid being in the science education business, even if it's not setting national standards for local schools: when people want to know about swine flu, they turn to the US Centers for Disease Control; the major science agencies, the NSF, NASA, NIH, DOE, are obligated (sometimes by law) to explain to the public how billions of dollars of research funds are being spent, and many of the US national parks have visitor centers that explain the science behind the parks' impressive natural wonders.