LETCHWORTH, England, August 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Navevo, the UK's leading specialist GPS software developer has been awarded the 2008 UK Telematics Product Innovation Award by global growth consulting company, Frost & Sullivan. The award given in recognition of a company's capability to identify industry challenges and introduce a unique product offering was awarded to Navevo for its new ProNav (Professional Navigation) solution which identified a new segment in navigation for heavy goods vehicle and addressed it with some unique features, such as information about loading bays and red routes in London.

Metabolic changes responsible for the evolution of our unique cognitive abilities indicate that the brain may have been pushed to the limit of its capabilities, according to research published today in Genome Biology.

This adds weight to the theory that schizophrenia is a costly by-product of human brain evolution.

Philipp Khaitovich, from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the Shanghai branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, led a collaboration of researchers from Cambridge, Leipzig and Shanghai who investigated brains from healthy and schizophrenic humans and compared them with chimpanzee and rhesus macaque brains.

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, August 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- TAQA to Announce Second Quarter and First Half 2008 Results on August 7

- Conference Call Details Below

The Abu Dhabi National Energy Company PJSC, a publicly listed company on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX: TAQA), announced today that it will release its second quarter and first half 2008 financial results for the period ending June 30, 2008 before markets open on Thursday August 7, 2008. In conjunction with the financial results release there is a scheduled conference call at 16:00 hrs (UAE time) on Thursday, August 7, 2008.

The conference call will be hosted by the Company's Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Peter Barker Homek, and Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Doug Fraser.

The first thing iRobot Corporation wants you to know, because they have been asked so many times, is that the Packbot is no Terminator - and never will be.

Robots in the military are not the stuff of science fiction but their mission parameters are very specific - and they are all teleoperated, meaning that there is someone operating the robot from a remote location, perhaps with a joystick and a computer screen.

While this may seem like a caveat in plans to add robots to the military, it is actually very important to keep humans involved in the robotic operations.

A revised outlook for the Arctic 2008 summer sea ice minimum shows ice extent will be below the 2005 level but not likely to beat the 2007 record, say researchers with DAMOCLES (Developing Arctic Modeling and Observing Capabilities for Long-term Environmental Studies), an integrated ice-atmosphere-ocean monitoring and forecasting system designed for observing, understanding and quantifying climate changes in the Arctic.

DAMOCLES will dispatch eleven research missions into the Arctic this autumn to better understand the future of the sea ice.

Chances that the 2008 ice extent will fall below last year's record minimum is about 8 percent, researchers forecast after having run a number of different models predicting the fate of the Arctic sea ice this summer. But there is still reason for concern; the scientists are almost certain the ice extent will fall below the minimum of 2005, which was the second lowest year on record. With a probability of 80% the minimum ice extent in 2008 will be in the range between 4.16 and 4.70 million km2.

You no longer need a snooty wine expert to identify a ’74 Pinot Noir from Burgundy – a handheld “electronic tongue” devised by European scientists will tell you the grape variety and vintage at the press of a button.

Designed for quality control in the field, the device is made up of six sensors which detect substances characteristic of a certain wine variety. Components such as acid, sugar and alcohol can be measured by this detection, and from these parameters it can determine the age and variety of the wine.

The tongue was invented by Cecilia Jiménez-Jorquera and colleagues from the Barcelona Institute of Microelectronics, Spain, and is reported in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal The Analyst.

KEIGHLEY, England, August 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- froggybank.co.uk Releases 101 Tips to Beat the Credit Crunch

More people have changed their utility provider through the UK's biggest consumer loyalty network in the last two days, than did in the previous three months.

Since British Gas announced its 35% price increase on Wednesday, the froggybank.co.uk (http://www.froggybank.co.uk/) network has seen a massive increase in switchers.

For the first time ever utilities are the top selling category in the network.

And many shoppers are also getting a cash bonus to switch supplier, through sites such as froggybank.co.uk.

Scottish Power (http://www.froggybank.co.uk/scottish-power/) doubled its cashback offering of up to GBP72 on Wednesday.

Tiny fossilized teeth excavated from an Indian open-pit coal mine could be the oldest Asian remains ever found of anthropoids, the primate lineage of today's monkeys, apes and humans, say researchers from Duke University and the Indian Institute of Technology.

Just 9-thousandths of a square inch in size, the teeth are about 54.5 million years old and suggest these early primates were no larger than modern dwarf lemurs weighing about 2 to 3 ounces. Studies of the shape of the teeth suggest these small animals could live on a fruit and insect diet, according to the researchers.

"It's certainly the oldest anthropoid from Asia and India," said Richard Kay, a Duke professor of evolutionary anthropology who is corresponding author of a report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Researchers at the University of Birmingham say they have uncovered new information about the way that we perceive fast moving, incoming objects – such as tennis or cricket balls.

The new research, published today in PNAS, studies why the human brain has difficulty perceiving fast moving objects coming from straight ahead; something that should be a key survival skill. The research has implications for understanding how top-class sportspeople make decisions about playing a shot but could also be important for improving road safety and for the development of robotic vision systems.

ARNHEM, The Netherlands, August 4 /PRNewswire/ -- ARCADIS (EURONEXT: ARCAD), the international consulting, design, engineering and management services company, today announced that it will sell Copijn to Hoek Hoveniers from Voorhout, the Netherlands. Copijn, established in 1807, is a design and contracting firm specializing in green amenities projects in the Netherlands. Its sixty staff members will continue to work for Copijn. The company, with annual gross revenues of EUR 6 million, became a part of ARCADIS in 1994. No further financial details were disclosed.