LONDON, July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Depending on where a European smoker lives, some will die 10 years sooner than their neighbours! This huge discrepancy is due to differing European levels of tobacco control, services and availability of clinically proven products. Smoking is a serious health inequalities issue which is now being tackled by the European Network of Quitlines thanks to funding from a Pfizer Foundations Global Health Partnership Programme.

PORTLAND, Oregon, July 23 /PRNewswire/ --

Site9, a Portland, Oregon based developer of collaborative web development software, today introduced ProtoShare. ProtoShare is the first online web development tool that enables website developers to easily build dynamic and navigable website prototypes that team members can then review and comment on in real-time. It is available online as a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) tool with access available from any Internet connection.

PHILADELPHIA and LONDON, July 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- Recognized in Top 100 Most Technologically Significant Products

The Scientific business of Thomson Reuters today announced that it has received an R&D 100 Award for its intellectual property research and analysis platform, Thomson Innovation(SM) (www.thomsoninnovation.com). The R&D 100 Awards are presented annually by R&D Magazine and recognize the 100 most technologically significant products that have been introduced to the marketplace in the past year.

OXFORD, England, July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- B2M Solutions, specialists in managing the mobile enterprise, has signed Logistics International PLC as a certified reseller of its mprodigy(TM) mobile management system. Logistics International is also using mprodigy to manage the mobile equipment used by its own Field Engineering team across the UK and Europe.

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LUDWIGSHAFEN, Germany, July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- In campfire stories, you often hear that someone's hair turns grey or white overnight because of a stressful or frightening experience. That's pretty obviously an exaggeration - but what ARE the factors involved when hair loses its young and vibrant tones and assumes that silvery sheen? In entertaining weekly episodes our Chemical Reporter answers questions of our Podcast listeners on Chemistry in our everyday life.

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LONDON, July 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- Manutd.com Ranks as Most Popular Premiership Club Site

- Premierleague.com Derives 55 Percent of its Online Audience from Outside the U.K.

comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released the results of a study on visitation to the official Web sites of Premiership football clubs, based on data from the comScore World Metrix audience measurement service. The study revealed that the majority of traffic to the Web sites of the "Big Four" Premiership clubs -- Manchester, Liverpool, Arsenal, and Chelsea -- now originates from outside of the U.K.

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Premiership Champions Manchester United Also Reign Online in U.K.

SAN FRANCISCO, California, July 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- Kenshoo Ltd, the Provider of the Leading 3rd generation SEM Automation Platform, is Announcing the Opening of Kenshoo Inc. Headquarters in the West Coast, USA.

Kenshoo has announced today the establishment of Kenshoo Inc. which will be headquartered in San Francisco, California. Together with Kenshoo UK, Kenshoo Inc. will give Kenshoo an office presence across 11 time zones covering all of Europe, North America, Asia and Australia.

A group of scientists who set out to study sex pheromones in a tiny worm found that the same family of pheromones also controls a stage in the worms' life cycle, the long-lived dauer larva. The findings in Nature represent the first time that reproduction and lifespan have been linked through so-called small molecules.

Where scientists once focused on DNA and proteins as the major players in an organism's biology, they are now realizing that smaller, but more structurally diverse chemicals - simply called "small molecules" - are a significant part of a living thing's biology. "They're as important to biology as the genes are," says Frank Schroeder, last author of the paper and a scientist at the Boyce Thompson Institute.

SENSOPAC, an EU-funded project whose goal is to create a robotic arm, hand and brain with human-like physical and cognitive capabilities, is bringing human-like robots closer to reality - their newest electronic brain is modelled on the human cerebellum.

Existing robots, such as those that help assemble cars or computers, can perform repetitive actions quickly and precisely. However, says Patrick van der Smagt, the coordinator of SENSOPAC, “they are not very intelligent or flexible and they don’t do very much sensing.”

While the movies have convinced many people that humanoid robots, such as C-3PO or WALL-E are realistic, van der Smagt knows all too well how difficult it is to build robots with even basic human abilities.