If you've ever been to a windy beach or a snow-blown landscape, you may have noticed a useless-looking fence with a pile of snow or sand on one side. The fence looks useless because it's full of holes - they're usually about 50% porous - and you might wonder what on earth they could be meant to control. It turns out that in windy conditions such a fence can cause a buildup of snow (or sand) on the downwind side, and that these fences are commonly used to prevent snowdrift across roadways as well as provide a measure of control over where snow or sand might build up.

Mold is icky. However, it has yielded one of the most important advances in medicine: antibiotics. There was a time when penicillin was the cure-all antibiotic, capable of quelling almost any one-celled invader.
However, today this is not the case. Today’s bacteria are getting faster, stronger and more resistant to even our most aggressive antibiotics. This has prompted scientists to look in other nooks and crannies of our world to find the next solution to our growing resistant population of angry bacteria.

TORONTO, January 30 /PRNewswire/ --

iSkin Inc. today introduced the iSkin solo FX: a hot new iPhone 3G protector that blends glitz and glamour with fashion-forward design features.

*(PHOTO 72dpi: Send2Press.com/mediaboom/09-0130-iSkSolo_72dpi.jpg) *(Photo Caption: iSkin solo FX for iPhone 3G.)

Inspired by the successful iSkin solo, the solo FX's glamorous high-gloss bodysuit is accented with a designer pattern that adds a bold, fashionable finish to an already beautiful package. And for the ultimate on-the-go convenience, the solo FX's protective screen film doubles as a mirror when the iPhone's asleep.

It's been nearly thirty years since the last application for construction of a nuclear power plant was filed in the United States. Despite the age of the reactors already operating, however, the amount of our power generated using nuclear sources is second only to coal. The energy generated by nuclear plants is also increasing steadily, as delays in refueling shorten and reactors operate for longer periods of time. However, there are still numerous environmental concerns regarding the waste products generated by American nuclear reactors - by 2010, the total amount of dangerous waste will exceed 77,000 tons. Now, researchers have found a way to reprocess that waste using new technology while still generating power.

MUMBAI, India, January 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- Net Sales up 14%, Net Profit up 28%, One More Site Approved by USFDA

Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Reuters: SUN.BO, Bloomberg: SUNP IN, NSE: SUNPHARMA, BSE: 524715) reported continuing growth for the third quarter ending Dec 31, 2008.

HONG KONG, January 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- Summary: Hong Kong, Sunday 8th February 2009

China's Yang Fengxia will be hoping to overturn a 40-second deficit on Australia's Billinda Schipp, and snatch victory for the Chinese Women's team in the North East Asia and Rest of The World category of The Greatest Race on Earth 2008/09 (GROE), which concludes at Sunday's Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon.

GROE is the leading international marathon relay series which sees Men's and Women's national teams of four runners competing at marathons in Nairobi, Singapore, Mumbai and Hong Kong. Each team member runs one of the marathons, with the winning teams being the ones with the quickest cumulative times.

GIBRALTAR, January 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Mansion will ensure online gamers will be having warm, cozy evenings this February with a variety of all-new promotions across its major casino brands; http://www.Casino.com and http://www.MansionCasino.com.

Casino.com, the cheeky new kid on the online-gaming block, toting its killer url goes absolutely slot-game crazy with the latest Super Slots Day and Slots Weekend Madness.

Super Slots Day awards players who participate in the Alien Hunter slots game, with hugely generous free spins. Players simply have to play a minimum of 20 spins at a minimum value of $20 during promotional hours and they'll receive a $20 bonus the following day. Players will be so elated they're sure to just keep spinning.

LONDON, January 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- Everyone is Telling us to eat less salt

Yet life itself depends on salt, so why did a life giving substance became such a toxic force in the modern lifestyle? And why did one of the most complex minerals become known simply as chemical sodium chloride?

Salt for food purposes accounts for just 7% of the world's salt production, the rest goes to industrial sources. Little wonder then that salt has become one of the most desecrated, and misunderstood of our food treasures.

Some might tell you that sea salt is no different to table salt; this could not be further from the truth.

SARDINIA, Italy, January 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Buying a Villa in Sardinia has always been a good investment, but now you might have more reason to invest in a property and spend time there. Legend has it, and scientists have now confirmed, that in Sardinia there's an extraordinary concentration of people living way over 100 years!

Researchers of the AKEA project of the University of Sassari, have documented that one out of every 200 people in Sardinia has lived to celebrate a 100th birthday. This extraordinary figure is about 50 times the rate of the United States, where just one out of every 10,000 people lives to see 100.

The secret to longevity?

WAALWIJK, The Netherlands, January 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The management of DOCDATA N.V. today announces that docdata media Ltd. in Telford (UK), a part of the docdata media division, has sold its complete business activities for CD and DVD replication and Audio Cassette manufacturing to Sound Performance Manufacturing Ltd., a subsidiary of the UK based Sound Performance Ltd. This transaction includes the sale by docdata media Ltd. as per the transaction date of 30th of January 2009 of its business activities, tangible fixed assets, stocks, customer contracts, trade creditors and personnel and staff. Details on the financial characteristics of the transaction will not be further specified at the specific request of Sound Performance.