CAMBRIDGE, England, February 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Horse Chestnut Bleeding Canker, caused by Pseudomonas syringae pv. aesculi, is common across Europe. It is a vascular disease, spread through ground water and its control has, until recently, been considered impossible as the bacteria spreads through a tree's cambium layer. Consequently, any treatment must travel around the cambium, kill the bacteria and have no effect upon the tree or wildlife. Spraying and root injection and removal of cankers would result in damage to the tree.

IRVINE, California, February 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- Pricing and European retail strategy to be announced.

Fisker Automotive, the new American manufacturer of premium green automobiles, will unveil its Karma and Karma S luxury plug-in hybrid cars for the first time on European soil at the Geneva Motor Show on March 3, 2009. The 408 horsepower, 100mpg Karma saloon will appear in the production trim customers will receive when deliveries begin the end of this year. The Karma S hardtop convertible coupe concept is scheduled for production in 2011. A European retail network strategy, along with vehicle options and pricing, will also be announced.

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Adaptation is one of the driving forces behind evolution, along with selection and the appearance of new species, say a group of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München researchers, but they say that the interpretation familiar since Darwin - these processes increase the "fitness" of the species overall, since, of two competing species, only the fittest would survive - is actually a case of the fittest being the 'weakest'  most often.

Are you smarter than a pigeon?   We don't mean smarter as in able to figure out why it's $14  a day for lousy internet access in a hotel or $14 to see an old movie in your hotel room or the hospitality industry's general preference for the number 14, we mean practical social smarts, like meeting the opposite sex.    Animals have "social smarts" too, it turns out, with a range of behaviors that can enhance species survival, according to studies being presented here in Chicago at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting. 

Evolution shouldn't leave out social behavior, it seems.

A multi-institutional team of researchers has reported the sequences for all of the 99 known strains of cold virus, nature's most ubiquitous human pathogen. The feat exposes, in precise detail, all of the molecular features of the many variations of the virus responsible for the common cold, the inescapable ailment that makes us all sneeze, cough and sniffle with regularity. 

Conducted by teams at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the J. Craig Venter Institute, the work to sequence and analyze the cold virus genomes lays a foundation for understanding the virus, its evolution and three-dimensional structure and, most importantly, for exposing vulnerabilities that could lead to the first effective cold remedies. 

BARCELONA, Spain, February 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- Leading international developer partners show carriers the very latest 'must have' video-enabled mobile applications as video becomes the new voice

Dialogic Corporation (Dialogic), a global provider of world-class products and technologies for media and signal processing (http://www.dialogic.com/products), and several of its world-class developer partners, will be demonstrating examples of their latest multimedia VAS solutions for carriers and mobile operators on the Dialogic stand at Mobile World Congress, February 16-19, 2009.