A new analysis of Martian soil data led by University of California, Berkeley, geoscientists suggests that there was once enough water in the planet's atmosphere for a light drizzle or dew to hit the ground, leaving tell-tale signs of its interaction with the planet's surface.

The study's conclusion breaks from the more dominant view that the liquid water that once existed during the red planet's infancy came mainly in the form of upwelling groundwater rather than rain.

To come up with their conclusions, the UC Berkeley-led researchers used published measurements of soil from Mars that were taken by various NASA missions: Viking 1, Viking 2, Pathfinder, Spirit and Opportunity. These five missions provided information on soil from widely distant sites surveyed between 1976 and 2006.

LONDON, June 25 /PRNewswire/ --

- Online Video Solutions Launched Exclusively for Companies, Media Groups and Communications Agencies

Kewego, the web video expert, has announced the European launch of a new range of web video solutions, specifically tailored to the needs of business users.

Video broadcasting is no longer the single criterion on which professionals base their choice of online video solution.

To guarantee a successful video strategy, companies, media groups and communications agencies are now looking for richer services:

- Their video player, their Web TV and even their video portal need to drive the company's brand image, boost interaction with visitors and enhance the users' online experience.

WOKING, England, June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- The UK construction industry has made progress but still has much work to do in other key areas if it is to match the ideal of the modern, sustainable construction industry visualised in the report authored by Sir John Egan 10 years ago.

This is the overall conclusion of a survey published today by BIW Technologies, a leading UK-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider to the property/construction sector.

Highlights

- 55% thought that significant progress had been made on implementing Egan's overall recommendations

- Most progress has been in 'process improvement' and least in 'costs and defects'

LONDON, June 25 /PRNewswire/ --

- Few Countries Have Prioritised This Potentially Preventable and Curable Cancer

A classified assessment by the National Intelligence Council (NIC) says climate change could threaten U.S. security in the next 20 years by causing political instability, mass movements of refugees, terrorism, or wars over water. The House Intelligence Committee will get a briefing today on the main findings and the full report will be released Monday, June 30th.

It's the perfect storm of buzzwords. This might be check and mate for environmental activists. Relating global warming to terrorism is a masterstroke of logical and cultural hand trickery but what can Big Oil do, deny there is terrorism? No one is more impacted by sea level rise than the Dutch so look for that military build-up in Holland over the next few years. The Belgians have it coming.

The assessment itself is confidential, because the other 6 billion of us won't be impacted by global warming or world wars over water, but thankfully some analyses used as raw material will be open, including a series of studies done by Columbia University's Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN). On commission from NIC, CIESIN ranked countries by looking at three climate risks: sea-level rise, increased water scarcity, and an aggregate measure of vulnerability based on projected temperature change, compared with nations' ability to adapt.

This University of Copenhagen press release says that they would like to be first to create a quantum computer. They have made no more progress than anyone else, really, but want us all to know that they are thinking about it.

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SAN FRANCISCO, June 25 /PRNewswire/ --

AKQA presented the winning entries in its third annual Future Lions Competition at the Cannes Lions Festival held on Saturday, June 21 in Cannes, France. The global creative competition featured work from more than 600 students around the world. Nine lucky winners were introduced to the leading agencies attending the Cannes Lions Festival.

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"This year's entries showcase the ingenuity of students entering today's advertising workforce," said Lars Bastholm, Co-Chief Creative Officer at AKQA. "These students are hungry, their talent is fierce and I recommend you hire them before they steal your job."

GENEVA and WASHINGTON DC, June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- With major surgery now occurring at a rate of 234 million procedures per year - one for every 25 people - and studies indicating that a significant percentage result in preventable complications and deaths, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched a new safety checklist for surgical teams to use in operating theatres, as part of a major drive to make surgery safer around the world.

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"Preventable surgical injuries and deaths are now a growing concern," said Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of WHO. "Using the Checklist is the best way to reduce surgical errors and improve patient safety."

SAN FRANCISCO, June 24 /PRNewswire/ --

IdenTrust, Inc today announced that Lloyds TSB has selected IdenTrust to provide trusted identity services for the bank's corporate banking customers using the BACSTEL-IP payment network.

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Lloyds TSB has joined the IdenTrust identity scheme and will provide its corporate banking customers IdenTrust digital identities to deliver strong authentication capabilities for users accessing BACSTEL-IP systems and for the digital signing of BACS transactions. In addition to joining the IdenTrust identity scheme, Lloyds TSB has engaged IdenTrust to provide a fully managed hosting service for the bank's high assurance identity requirements.