BASINGSTOKE, England and CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, July 3 /PRNewswire/ --

LONDON, July 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- XS2TheWorld Speaks Foreign Phrases, so you Don't Have to

XS2TheWorld has won a bronze award in the category "Best Handset application" for their "Mobile Speaking Travel Guides" at the international Mobile Content Award (MCA) conference 2008.

XS2TheWorld was nominated earlier for both 'best handset application' and 'best entertainment service' by the judging panel at the Mobile Content Awards (MCA).

LONDON, July 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- With Photo

From 15th July a photographic exhibition with a difference will be on display for a month at Baltic Restaurant, SE1.

The exhibition is the culmination of an eight-month project where some of London's most vulnerable women learnt photographic skills through a series of workshops and meetings and where they began to share and communicate for the first time, through their work and focus on an occupation other than chasing basic survival needs.

These women have never been given an opportunity to speak out safely, but now they have catalogued their lives in a series of hard-hitting images.

LONDON, July 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- Virtualization and Managed Hosting Technology Used to Absorb Peak Numbers of Online Football Fans and Video Users

LONDON, July 3 /PRNewswire/ --

NTT Europe Online, managed hosting provider to UEFA official public websites and extranet platform reveals how virtualization technology was used as part of its hosting platform to support record levels of web traffic to http://www.euro2008.com, the official website for the 2008 European Championships.

Thanks to salt and hot chili peppers, researchers have found what tells a roundworm to go forward toward dinner or turn to broaden the search. It's a computational mechanism, they say, that is similar to what drives hungry college students to a pizza.

Yes, college students have the calculus center of a worm.

These behavior-driving calculations are done "in a tiny, specialized computer inside a primitive roundworm," says principal investigator Shawn Lockery, a University of Oregon biologist and member of the UO Institute of Neuroscience.

In the paper, the researchers documented how two related, closely located chemosensory neurons, acting in tandem, regulate behavior. The left neuron controls an on switch, while the opposing right one an off switch. These sister neurons are situated much like the two nostrils or two eyes of mammals. Together these neurons are known as ASE for antagonistic sensory cues.

A woman in southern Ontario is one of the first cases in Canada of a rare neurological syndrome in which a person starts speaking with a different accent, McMaster University researchers report in the July issue of the Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences.

The puzzling medical phenomenon known as foreign-accent syndrome (FAS) arises from neurological damage, and results in vocal distortions that typically sound like the speaker has a new, "foreign" accent.

This particular case, however, is even more unusual because the English-speaking woman did not acquire an accent that sounds foreign but one that instead sounds like Maritime Canadian English.

In a familiar world of solids, liquids and gases, we find the fourth state of matter, the plasmas of lightning to the aurora borealis and fluorescent tubes at the office. Further out, minor phenomena becomes the big event in space, our shining stars are plasma being fused producing light. Not until 1924 was a fifth state of matter considered possible. Intrigued by quantum statistics, invented by the Bengali physicist, Satyendra Nath Bose from observations of light, Einstein applied Bose’s work to matter. The Bose-Einstein Condensate(BEC) was born. Was there any truth to the theory, Einstein himself wondered, that matter that could condense at ultracold temperatures into something new?

Einstein’s theory was left hanging, as a mathematical artifact, until 1938. Fritz London, a German theoretical chemist and physicist, working on helium at the same time as the Russian Pyotr Kapitsa who discovered its superfluid state at just under 2.2 K, found it behaved like Einstein’s theoretical BEC. Subsequent research confirmed London’s insight. Both stable isotopes, ordinary helium-4, and the rare helium-3 at much lower temperatures, are quantum superfluids, behaving like matter-waves or superatoms, undifferentiated matter with vastly different properties from their gas state or their ordinary bottled fluid state.

ABBOTT PARK, Illinois, July 2 /PRNewswire/ --

- XIENCE V, Only Drug Eluting Stent to Demonstrate Superiority Over Market-Leading Stent in Clinical Trials, Now Available in United States for Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease

Abbott today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the XIENCE(TM) V Everolimus Eluting Coronary Stent System for the treatment of coronary artery disease. XIENCE V is the only drug eluting stent to have demonstrated superiority over Boston Scientific's TAXUS(R) paclitaxel-eluting coronary stent system in two randomized head-to-head clinical trials. XIENCE V will be launched in the United States immediately.