As much as people love wireless technology, current systems such as WLAN or Bluetooth have their limits: They transmit the data with clock rates in the gigahertz range at most, a billion vibrations per second.

In order to increase the quantity of transmitted data, especially for things like high-definition wireless video, clock rates need to become much higher.

Terahertz waves (1000 billion vibrations per second) look like the successor to Bluetooth; for short distances, like within rooms. Transmitting power has been an obtsacle to go beyond that.

Garments that can measure a wearer's body temperature or trace their heart activity are on the market but the European project BIOTEX has taken it a step further - they have developed miniaturised biosensors in a textile patch that can analyze body fluids, even a tiny drop of sweat, and provide a much better assessment of health.

A cluster of EU research projects (SFIT Group) is supporting this burgeoning field of smart fabrics, interactive textiles and flexible wearable systems. Jean Luprano, a researcher at the Swiss Centre for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM), coordinates the BIOTEX project.

The methodology behind constructing a quantum channel between Space and Earth got a big boost as a research team, led by Paolo Villoresi and Cesare Barbieri from Padova University, have been able to identify individual returning photons after firing and reflecting them off of a space satellite in orbit almost 1,500 kilometres above the earth.

They say their work improves the feasibility of building a completely secure channel for global communication, via satellites in space, using quantum mechanics.

The research team fired photons directly at the Japanese Ajisai Satellite and have been able to prove that the photons received back at the Matera ground-based station, in southern Italy, are the same as those originally emitted.

LONDON, March 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Imposing a carbon tax on Chinese imports may be the only way developed nations will be able to achieve real cuts in global greenhouse gases, finds a new report from CIBC World Markets.

The research report notes that while governments in developed nations are taking painful steps to cut greenhouse gases, carbon emissions from developing nations - in particular China - have skyrocketed in recent years. Since 2000, total emissions have climbed by more than 6,000 million metric tonnes (mmt) - with 90 per cent of that coming from China and other developing nations. China is now the single largest carbon emitter country in the world, producing more than 21 per cent of the global total.

LONDON, March 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- It Could Damage Your Health

People illegally selling copied software via Internet auction sites have been warned that the net is closing in on them.

The Federation Against Software Theft (The Federation) is determined to act against individuals profiting by breaching the copyright of its members.

This activity follows on from an announcement by the Software and Information Industry Association in the US that it had launched 17 auction piracy actions against individuals selling counterfeit software via eBay.

NEW YORK, March 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- IT risk monitoring has become a real-time requirement for financial institutions - Societe Generale's USD 7 billion in fraud losses provide wake up call.

Vigilant, LLC, the leading provider of IT Risk, SIEM Integration, and Co-Sourcing Services to the Fortune 1000, today announced the release of their latest technical white paper, analyzing the recent Societe Generale fraud case and positing how a real-time risk monitoring system may have prevented the bank's record-setting losses from occurring.

LONDON, March 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Responding to guidance issued today by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), advising that cough and cold treatments should not be used for infants and children under 2 years of age, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) has called on pharmacists to review how such products are stored and sold.

RPSGB's Director of Practice & Quality Improvement, David Pruce, says:

FREISING-WEIHENSTEPHAN, Germany, March 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Investment Round Led by OrbiMed Advisors, World's Largest Healthcare Investment Firm

Pieris AG, a bio-pharmaceutical company developing Anticalins(R), a novel class of targeted human protein therapeutics, announced today the closing of a Series B financing round.

GOTHENBURG, Sweden, March 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Cellectricon, a leading provider of screening solutions for drug discovery, today announced the launch of the new Cellaxess(R)HT System. The world's first fully automated high throughput transfection system enables reagent-free delivery of genetic material to a wide range of biologically relevant cell types. The system will be introduced at the SBS 14th Annual Conference and Meeting in St. Louis, MO, USA, April 6-10.

Cellectricon has developed Cellaxess(R)HT in close collaboration with leading research groups to meet the increasing demand for a technology capable of genome-wide RNAi screening.