What's in a name? Perhaps more (or less) money.  Before employers have a chance to judge job applicants on their merits, they may have already judged them on the sound of their names, says  a study published in the latest issue of the Journal of Labor Economics.  

Who hasn't tried to bleach their hair with hydrogen peroxide  in college?    I can't tell you how many young scientists we know who tried to go for that young Reed Richards look.

It turns out that hydrogen peroxide may be responsbile for bleached hair in aging also, though not intentionally.   

Researchers of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germany nd the University of Bradford  say they have now unlocked the secret of hair turning white or gray in old age. According to them, free oxygen radicals are significantly involved in the loss of hair color.

Sulfuryl fluoride, a gas used for fumigation, has the potential to contribute significantly to future greenhouse warming, but because its production has not yet reached high levels there is still time to nip this potential contributor in the bud, according to an international team of researchers.

Their study of  sulfuryl fluoride this month in the Journal of Geophysical Research, measured the levels of the gas in the atmosphere and determined its emissions and lifetime to help gauge its potential future effects on climate.

If you want to perform at your peak, you should carefully consider how you discuss your past actions. In a new study in Psychological Science, psychologists William Hart of the University of Florida and Dolores AlbarracÃn from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign reveal that the way a statement is phrased (and specifically, how the verbs are used), affects our memory of an event being described and may also influence our behavior.

Polymorphisms are variations in genes which can result in changes in the way a particular gene functions and thus may be associated with susceptibility to common diseases.

In a new study in Psychological Science, psychologist Tina B. Lonsdorf and her colleagues from the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and the University of Greifswald in Germany examined the effect of specific polymorphisms on how fear is learned and how that fear is subsequently overcome.

KIRKLAND, Washington, March 9 /PRNewswire/ --

ProteoTech Inc. announced today that both Dr. Alan D. Snow, Chairman, President CSO, and Dr. Luke Esposito, Director of In Vitro Screening, will present at the 9th International Conference for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases, to be held in Prague, Czech Republic, March 11-15, 2009. On Sunday March 15, Dr. Alan D. Snow will give an oral presentation discussing promising results pertaining to ProteoTech's current Phase 1A human clinical trial with the small molecule Exebryl-1(R) for the treatment of mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Snow's talk is entitled: Exebryl-1(R): A Novel Small Molecule Currently in Human Clinical Trials as a Disease-Modifying Drug for the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease.

It seems that cherries are the new ‘super food’ to strike a craze in the US. Citing the effects of cherries to slow aging due to antioxidants, they contain a class of free-radical fighting agents called anthocyanins, which are not just found in cherries.

In 2004, the Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology dedicated an entire volume to the subject of anthocyanins, which are found not only in cherries, but in blueberries, pomegranates, cranberries, sweet potatoes, Elderberries, and grapes. Various berry juices also contain the antioxidants like grape juice, wine and other extracts.

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- With a 600 million euro investment, these are the first two solar projects of a total of 8 which the company plans to build and operate in Spain

LONDON, March 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- Inquiry Suite's Manufacturing module offers operational users a real-time solution to manage their information and meet their reporting, query, reconciliation, integrity and analysis needs.

The GL Company, the leading provider of Business Process Optimisation Software, announces availability of their new Manufacturing module; the latest offering within their Inquiry Suite solution for JD Edwards software.

CAMBRIDGE, England, March 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- Report Reveals That the UK is World-Leading in Measuring Knowledge Transfer Activities

Unico - the UK's leading knowledge transfer association - announces key findings of its latest report. Through the work of the report, 'Metrics for the Evaluation of Knowledge Transfer Activities at Universities', a new set of measurement tools is enabling universities to accurately measure the value of knowledge transfer activities (KT) for the first time. It reveals that the UK leads the world in terms of measuring the value of KT activities.