Science Education & Policy

Finjan Positioned In Visionaries Quadrant In Magic Quadrant For Secure Web Gateway 2008

SAN JOSE, California, September 16 /PRNewswire/--- Vital Security Appliances Provide Zero-Day Protection Against Crimeware Finjan Inc., a leading provider of secure web gateway solutions for the enterprise market, today announced that it has been position ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Sep 16 2008 - 7:32am

Houses Made From Hemp Will Combat Global Warming, Says UK Study

Houses made of hemp, timber or straw could help combat climate change by reducing the carbon footprint of building construction, according to researchers at the University of Bath. The construction industry is a major contributor of environmental pollutant ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 16 2008 - 9:24am

S1 Enterprise Announces The Availability Of International ACH Transaction Capabilities

VIENNA, Austria and NORCROSS, Georgia, September 16 /PRNewswire/-- S1 Enterprise, a division of S1 Corporation (Nasdaq: SONE) and a leading provider of multichannel financial services software, today announced the incorporation of International ACH Transa ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Sep 16 2008 - 9:31am

Are Honor Killings Good For Diversity?

Diversity is praised as good for business and for promoting creativity but when organizational theorist Viktorija Kalonaityte studied diversity work at a Swedish adult education school, the school wanted to make everyone as “Swedish” as possible. That mean ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 16 2008 - 9:47am

Forget Nostalgia, Hockey Players Are Bigger Today- And Faster

Imagine taking a picture of your favorite hockey team as a child and then again as an adult today. Looking back over a quarter of century, the changes you'd see are significant. Researchers in the University of Alberta Faculty of Physical Education a ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 16 2008 - 4:01pm

Humpback Whales Lend New Yorkers An Earful

For the first time in waters surrounding New York City, the beckoning calls of endangered fin, humpback and North Atlantic right whales have been recorded, according to experts from the Bioacoustics Research Program at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and t ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 16 2008 - 4:11pm

SynergyNet Desk-Sized 'iPhone' Interface Makes Learning Interactive

Schools are set for a Star Trek make-over thanks to the development of the world's first interactive classroom by experts at Durham University. Researchers at the Technology-Enhanced Learning Research Group (TEL) are designing new learning environmen ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 16 2008 - 9:04pm

McCain, Obama Get Some Free Advice On Science Appointments

The National Academy of Sciences has created a policy report outlining some of our national challenges, including economic ones, and sent it to both John McCain and Barack Obama with guidance for whomever is elected president in November. The report provi ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 17 2008 - 11:53am

CADNA Addresses New Internet Governance Obstacles

WASHINGTON, September 17 /PRNewswire/--- With the Help of New Members ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Sep 17 2008 - 1:31pm

Ecosystem Carbon Storage Ability Reduced By Abnormally Warm Years

Plants and soils are 'sponges' for atmospheric carbon dioxide but an abnormally warm year can suppress the amount of carbon dioxide soaked up by some grassland ecosystems for up to two years, say the researchers behind a four-year study of sealed ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 17 2008 - 1:46pm