New research into gigantic flying reptiles has found that they weren’t all gull-like predators grabbing fish from the water but that some were strongly adapted for life on the ground.

Pterosaurs lived during the age of dinosaurs 230 to 65 million years ago. A new study by researchers at the University of Portsmouth on one particular type of pterosaur, the azhdarchids, claims they were more likely to stalk animals on foot than to fly.

Until now virtually all pterosaurs have been imagined by palaeontologists to have lived like modern seabirds: as gull- or pelican-like predators that flew over lakes and oceans, grabbing fish from the water. But a study of azhdarchid anatomy, footprints and the distribution of their fossils by Mark Witton and Dr Darren Naish shows that this stereotype does not apply to all flying reptiles and some were strongly adapted for terrestrial life.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- Virgin Radio selects coComment to power conversations, host all online comments

coComment, the leading platform for managing, powering and researching, discovering, tracking and sharing great conversations online, announced a partnership with the UK's favourite national rock and pop station Virgin Radio (http://www.virginradio.co.uk), a part of Scottish Media Group: SMG.L. coCommment will power conversations on Virgin Radio's award-winning site enabeling the station's 4.5 million monthly listeners to bring radio discussions online and keep these conversations alive, well after the broadcast has ended.

NEW YORK, May 27 /PRNewswire/ --

Kontor New Media, a top European leader in digital distribution, and Qtrax, the world's first free and legal peer-to-peer (P2P) music service, today announce that they have signed a digital licensing agreement.

Kontor's business model works to ensure that its indie partner labels' music and music video content are featured in key download shops such as iTunes, Napster, FNAC, Beatport, Nokia Music Services, musicload, AOL -- and now Qtrax. The Germany-based company works with hundreds of independent European music labels.

HELSINKI, Finland, May 27 /PRNewswire/ --

Marioff Corporation Oy has been selected by the Helsinki Public Works Department to install a HI-FOG(R) Water Mist Fire Protection System in the city's new underground tunnel service network. The installation will be Finland's first automatic tunnel fire protection system. Marioff is part of UTC Fire & Security, a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX).

The Helsinki underground service network will direct road traffic under the downtown area, allowing the city to expand its pedestrian zones. The project includes a two-kilometre service tunnel, one kilometre of which will be protected by the new HI-FOG(R) system.

Eta Carinae has the shape of a 'little man' and surrounds a star doomed to explode within the next 100 000 years.

Being brighter than one million Suns, Eta Carinae is the most luminous star known in the Galaxy. It is the closest example of a luminous blue variable, the last phase in the life of a very massive star before it explodes in a fiery supernova.

Eta Carinae is surrounded by an expanding bipolar cloud of dust and gas known as the Homunculus ('little man' in Latin), which astronomers believe was expelled from the star during a great outburst seen in 1843 [1].

While estrogen is typically thought of as a "female" hormone, men produce it as well. Researchers say they have pinpointed estrogen as a key player in about half of all prostate cancers.

The findings are published in the May 27 online edition of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Mark A. Rubin, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, and vice chair for experimental pathology at Weill Cornell Medical College, conducted the study while at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and in collaboration with Dr. Todd Golub and other members of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, in Cambridge, Mass.

first discovered and described the common fusions between the TMPRSS2 and ETS family member genes subset of prostate cancer in the journal Science in 2005. "The discovery showed that these malignancies occur after an androgen (male hormone)-dependent gene fuses with an oncogene -- a type of gene that causes cancer," he explains.

WASHINGTON DC, May 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Bavarian Nordic, the Danish-based biopharmaceutical company, has initiated a Phase I/II clinical study with its HIV vaccine candidate: MVA-BN(R) HIV multiantigen.

Enrolment in a Phase I/II safety and immunogenicity study in 15 HIV-infected patients (CD4 counts >350 ul/ml) has begun in the United States. The first safety data is expected by the end of 2008 and immunogenicity data will be available during first half of 2009.

GENEVA, May 27 /PRNewswire/ --

On World No Tobacco Day, 31 May, the International Union Against Cancer (UICC) joins the World Health Organization in calling for a comprehensive ban on all forms of advertising, promotion and sponsorship of tobacco products.

Globally, most smokers start smoking before the age of 18. Almost one fourth begin before they are ten. The younger children are when they first try smoking, the more likely they are to become regular tobacco users and the less likely they are to quit.

Advertising is a net deliberately set by the tobacco industry to entrap them into addiction.

STOCKHOLM, May 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- Qtel Award Ascade the Contract for the Complete Suite of the Carrier Cockpit(TM) Platform; From Routing and Trading to Quality Management and Interconnect Billing.

Ascade, the global market-leader in advanced Routing & Trading, Billing and Quality solutions for the Interconnect market, today announced that Qtel, the Qatar based highly international carrier, has awarded a contract for the full suite of Carrier Cockpit(TM).

Qtel made a thorough evaluation of the existing systems in the market and found Carrier Cockpit(TM) to provide the best support for its future growth; both within Qatar and through its international affiliates.