The discovery of a gruesome feeding frenzy that played out 73 million years ago in northwestern Alberta may also lead to the discovery of new dinosaur species in northwestern Alberta.

University of Alberta student Tetsuto Miyashita and Frederico Fanti, a paleontology graduate student from Italy, made the discovery near Grande Prairie, 450 kilometres northwest of Edmonton. 

GIBRALTAR, May 12 /PRNewswire/ --

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With an unexpected move, the Austrian Minister of Research and Science, Johannes Hahn, announced last Friday that he intends to put an end to the 50-year-long participation of Austria to CERN.

Such a move is hard to understand, in light of the great prospects of physics that the start-up of LHC will bring at the end of this year. Losing membership to CERN would mean a downgrade of Austrian scientists in all the projects they are involved, and it would be detrimental to the experiments, to the lab, and to particle physics in general, but most of all it would be a catastrophe for Austrian research.

Frederick II (1194 –1250), Holy Roman Emperor and King of Sicily, so I have read, preferred equation-solving contests to watching knights impaling each other in jousting. Certainly, the great mathematician we know today as Fibonacci spent some time at his court.

As a result of this development, Italy became a leading centre of the mathematical arts, and by the 1530s the solving of cubic equations was all the rage in Venice, with great prize money.

A couple of entomologists at Arizona State have done what NASA famously failed to do: name a thing after Stephen Colbert. The Agaporomorphus colberti diving beetle joins the ranks of Colbert’s many namesakes: the Aptostichus stephencolberti trapdoor spider, the Diamphipnoa colberti stonefly, and just about everything else that needed naming in the last few years.

This Colbert-named arthropod series is in good company. There is a wealth of homage, wordplay, and good ol’ scientist shenanigans hiding beneath the latinized genus and species names of formal biological nomenclature. Here are a few highlights.

NEW YORK and LONDON, May 11 /PRNewswire/ --

Thomson Reuters launches new mobile applications for the iPhone and BlackBerry, to better serve its audience of global, on-the-go business professionals. Following are two news releases detailing each application separately.

Thomson Reuters Launches Multimedia Application on Apple App Store

CHEADLE, England and SUDBURY, Massachusetts, May 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Optasia Medical Ltd., a maker of model-based vision software for musculoskeletal radiography has received certification for the successful registration of our quality management system to both ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 13485:2003. The certification audit was performed by a representative of Intertek in January 2009. The Intertek auditor examined all elements of the Company's Quality Management System (QMS), including quality policy, objectives, processes, record keeping, and also interviewed on-site staff.

HOLMDEL, New Jersey, May 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- Menarini Group chooses Enterprise Quality Management Solution to manage quality and maintain regulatory compliance

Sparta Systems, Inc., the maker of TrackWise(R) software and the market leader in enterprise quality and compliance management, today announced that Menarini Group, the world's leading Italian pharmaceutical group, has selected its TrackWise Enterprise Quality Management System (EQMS) to simplify quality processes throughout distributed manufacturing sites. The company will leverage TrackWise software to help achieve the harmonization of quality assurance (QA) processes and availability of critical information for organization-wide regulatory compliance.

A new machine developed at North Carolina State University makes an animal heart pump much like a live heart after it has been removed from the animal's body, allowing researchers to expedite the development of new tools and techniques for heart surgery. The machine saves researchers time and money by allowing them to test and refine their technologies in a realistic surgical environment, without the cost and time associated with animal or clinical trials.

TOKYO, May 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- Centralized data management strategy helps mitigate risk and increase business efficiency

Eagle Investment Systems LLC, a leading provider of financial services technology and a subsidiary of The Bank of New York Mellon, announced that Nomura Asset Management (NAM), Japan's largest asset manager, has successfully deployed Eagle's data management solution. This project represents the first stage of NAM's multi-phase plan to upgrade its global investment platform.