Science Education & Policy

Excellent Performance Across All Areas Of The Business And Accelerating New Product Sales Drive Revenue Growth Of 36%

BASINGSTOKE, England and PHILADELPHIA, February 21 /PRNewswire/-- Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPGY) the global specialty biopharmaceutical company announces results for the twelve months to December 31, 2007- a year which has seen significant growth in ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Feb 21 2008 - 10:30am

Open Science- CAP Journal And Peer-Reviewed Astronomy Communication

There are lots of journals out there, more than I could name in any one article, but as you get into science communication, the number of peer-reviewed publications drops considerably. That seems odd, since communicating with the public, and therefore with ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 21 2008 - 7:11pm

Study: Disk Encryption And Secure Memory Easy To Break

A team of academic, industry and independent researchers has demonstrated a new class of computer attacks that compromise the contents of “secure” memory systems, particularly in laptops. The attacks overcome a broad set of security measures called “disk e ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 21 2008 - 11:22am

Nissan To Co-Sponsor "The Science Of Survival"

TOKYO, February 21 /PRNewswire/--- Environmental Technologies to be on Display at 20 Venues Around the World Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., announced today that it will co-sponsor "The Science of Survival," the first exhibition of its kind, which opens ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Feb 21 2008 - 12:30pm

Paving The Way To Greener Highways

Kevin Gardner sees green roads right around the corner. “A lot of the infrastructure in this country needs to be re-built,” says Gardner, University of New Hampshire associate professor of civil engineering and director of the Environmental Research Group. ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 21 2008 - 12:42pm

Global Interoperability And Patient Privacy Focus Of New Liberty Alliance Health Identity Management Group

ORLANDO, Florida, February 22 /PRNewswire/--- Liberty Alliance Launches Public Special Interest Group to Enable an Internationally Interoperable Healthcare Identity Management and Information Exchange System ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Feb 22 2008 - 6:30am

Study: Americans Have More Strokes Than Europeans

American adults have a higher prevalence of stroke than their European counterparts, due in part to a higher rate of stroke risk factors among Americans and barriers to care in the United States, according to a study presented at the American Stroke Associ ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 22 2008 - 9:43am

The 20th Century: When Free Trade Was Fair Trade

As thousands flock to ‘Fairtrade Fortnight’ events all over Britain, Free Trade Nation, a new book by Professor Frank Trentmann, Director of the Economic and Social Research Council-funded Cultures of Consumption programme, shows that ethical consumerism w ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 24 2008 - 11:31pm

Should Evolution Be Taught In High School?

Microbiologist Carl Woese is well known as an iconoclast. Indeed, few biologists have so thoroughly shaken the tree of life as he did when he proposed that there are not two major branches-- prokaryotes, whose cells lack nuclei, and eukaryotes who possess ...

Article - T. Ryan Gregory - Feb 24 2008 - 12:23pm

Urban Ecology: Measuring The Megacity’s Footprint

If you are reading this, chances are that you live in a city – one, perhaps, on its way to becoming a megacity with a population that exceeds 10 million or more. If not, you and most of the world’s population soon will be, according to global population de ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 24 2008 - 5:18pm