Cameras and sensors that will look for the presence of water on the moon have completed validation tests and been shipped to the manufacturer of NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite.

The science instruments for the satellite, which is known as LCROSS, departed NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field Calif., for the Northrop Grumman Corporation's facility in Redondo Beach, Calif. to be integrated with the spacecraft. A video file is available on NASA Television. LCROSS is scheduled to launch with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla., by the end of 2008.

BEAVERTON, Oregon, January 14 /PRNewswire/ --

- Offerings to be Exhibited for the First Time in Europe at ISE Show

Planar Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLNR), a worldwide leader in specialty display solutions, today announced availability of the Clarity RP and RX rear-projection displays designed to deliver a superior level of visual performance for demanding control room environments, such as government/military, broadcast, utility and transportation. Planar's RX and award-winning RP control room displays, announced at InfoComm in June, demonstrate the company's continued commitment to providing leading-edge display solutions for complex applications.

SHEFFIELD, England, January 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Local energy enabler Disenco Energy plc (TSX:DIS) today announces the appointment of Britain's Malvern Boilers Limited as sub-contractor to produce initial volumes of the condensing boiler element and final assembly of its unique home energy producing appliance, HomePowerPlant.

The appointment follows that of Autocraft Industries UK last week as engine manufacturer for the appliance. Engines from Autocraft will be incorporated into the appliance at Malvern Boilers facilities utilising the latest lean manufacturing techniques, enabling Disenco to meet initial demand for its disruptive product.

HOUSTON, January 14 /PRNewswire/ --

- Expert Faculty to Present Updates on the Latest Neuroscience Research and Clinical Treatments

The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, renowned institutions from Houston's Texas Medical Center, announced the first Neuroscience Frontiers Conference, which will take place at the Grand Hyatt in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), on January 21, 2008.

Who needs a computer? Two theoretical physicists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute grabbed a piece of paper and described the motion of interstellar shock waves — violent events associated with the birth of stars and planets.

The mathematical solution developed by Wayne Roberge, lead author and professor of physics, applied physics, and astronomy at Rensselaer and his colleague, adjunct professor Glenn Ciolek, reveals the force and movement of shock waves in plasma, the neutral and charged matter that makes up the dilute “air” of space. Unlike many previous studies of its kind, the researchers focused specifically on shock waves in plasma, which move matter in very different ways than the uncharged air on Earth.

TORONTO, Canada, January 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Comprehensive Care International (CCI), is pleased to announce the appointment of Jarvis L. Hoult, B.A., M.H.A., CHE as Vice President of Projects. Mr. Hoult is a senior health care executive with 30 years experience creating profound change within the global health care arena. Mr. Hoult will be responsible for designing and overseeing the execution of strategies to support CCI's growing international client base, ensuring success in the knowledge transfer of healthcare practices and healthcare technology.

Fish oil supplements help some cardiac patients while harming others, according to a new review of evidence compiled by St. Michael’s Hospital and University of Toronto researchers.

In a systematic review of trials where patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators used fish oil supplements, Dr. David Jenkins and Dr. Paul Dorian found significant differences among the trials, indicating fish oil may be beneficial to some patients while having a negative impact on others.

“Fish oils can have complex and varied effects on the heart,” says Jenkins, a U of T Professor of Medicine who runs the Clinical Nutrition and Risk Factor Modification Centre at St. Michael’s Hospital.

BBSRC scientists have found that the part of the brain that deals with sound, the auditory cortex, is adapted in each individual and tuned to the world around us. We learn throughout our lives how to localize and identify different sounds. It means that if you could hear the world through someone else's ears it would sound very different to what you are used to.

Recognising people, objects or animals by the sound they make is an important survival skill and something most of us take for granted. But very similar objects can physically make very dissimilar sounds and we are able to pick up subtle clues about the identity and source of the sound.

An unusual dinosaur has been shown to have a skull that functioned like a fish-eating crocodile, despite looking like a dinosaur. It also possessed two huge hand claws, perhaps used as grappling hooks to lift fish from the water.

Dr Emily Rayfield at the University of Bristol, UK, used computer modelling techniques – more commonly used to discover how a car bonnet buckles during a crash – to show that while Baryonyx was eating, its skull bent and stretched in the same way as the skull of the Indian fish-eating gharial – a crocodile with long, narrow jaws.

Dr Rayfield said: “On excavation, partially digested fish scales and teeth, and a dinosaur bone were found in the stomach region of the animal, demonstrating that at least some of the time this dinosaur ate fish.

LONDON, January 14 /PRNewswire/ --

The 2008 Fitter Schools UK Challenge, launched today by Fit For Sport and ex-Arsenal and England football hero Ian Wright, is a national initiative designed to help improve children's fitness levels, establish life-long activity habits and make them healthier.

The 2008 Challenge, which is free to enter, is open to all schools including independent schools, specialist sports colleges and SEN schools from Y1 to Y11.

Fit For Sport is confident that the 2008 Challenge will surpass the achievements of the inaugural (2007) Challenge which included:

- 1m school children improved their fitness levels on average by 14.5%

- 3,000 schools participated.