Science Education & Policy

Second Life To First: Researchers Create Virtual Character With Reasoning Of A Child

Video games such as Second Life give users the freedom to create characters in the digital domain that look and seem more human than ever before but while they can have your hair or your hazel eyes, it's still just a pretty face. A group of researcher ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 10 2008 - 10:56am

‘15by2015’- A Campaign To Strengthen Primary Healthcare Around The World

LONDON, March 10 /PRNewswire/-- Tanzania, 2007. A male patient is admitted to a hospital with pneumonia and possibly HIV. Due to staffing problems and improper handling, the patient is not seen for a week. Upon finally being seen, he is found to be HIV ne ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Mar 10 2008 - 11:32am

SunGard Acquires Corporate Payments Division Of Payformance

NEW YORK, March 10 /PRNewswire/-- SunGard (http://www.sungard.com) today announced that it has acquired the corporate payments division of Payformance Corporation (http://www.payformance.com), a Jacksonville, Florida based company that provides payment pr ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Mar 10 2008 - 1:32pm

Claim: Biofuel Invention Turns Today's Trash Into Tomorrow's Ethanol

At the end of "Back To The Future", Doc shows up wearing futuristic clothes and possessing a swanky new addition to his DeLorean- a "Mr. Fusion" device so that he no longer required the Plutonium that caused all of the problems with the ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 10 2008 - 4:26pm

Abbott Receives CE Mark For Smaller-Size XIENCE(TM) V Drug Eluting Stent

ABBOTT PARK, Illinois, March 11 /PRNewswire/--- New 2.25 mm Diameter Stent Now Available in Europe, Asia and Latin America Abbott (NYSE: ABT) announced today that it has received CE Mark (Conformite Europeene) approval for a 2.25 mm version of its XIENCE( ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Mar 11 2008 - 1:32am

Social Networking Threats Addressed At MAAWG Meeting; Industry Advances To Combat Other Online Abuse

SAN FRANCISCO, March 11 /PRNewswire/-- Initiating a dialogue with ISPs on how to protect social sites from exploitation, Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, asked network operators to trust that users will voluntarily report abuse and to cooperate with ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Mar 11 2008 - 3:32am

Peter Jones Unveils Government-Backed Plans To Teach Teenagers How To Be Entrepreneurs

LONDON, March 11 /PRNewswire/--- Boardroom Meets Classroom in New National Enterprise Academy Entrepreneur and 'Dragon's Den' judge Peter Jones has today unveiled a plan to shift the boardroom firmly into the classroom by establishing a new ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Mar 11 2008 - 3:32am

Skoll Foundation Adds Eleven Pioneering Organizations To Its Global Portfolio Of Leading Social Entrepreneurs

PALO ALTO, California, March 11 /PRNewswire/--- Unrestricted Grants to Allow Each Organization to Expand its Impact to Achieve Sustainable Change The Skoll Foundation today announced Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship for 11 organizations working ar ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Mar 11 2008 - 6:30am

New Video On "Dark Matter" With Teacher Notes To Benefit Students, From Canada's Perimeter Institute

WATERLOO, Canada, March 11 /PRNewswire/-- Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI) is now providing the first in a new series of in-class, educational resources designed to help high school teachers introduce and guide students through a variety o ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Mar 11 2008 - 8:30am

Cognizant Sets Up New Delivery Center In Argentina To Bolster Value To Customers

TEANECK, New Jersey and BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, March 11 /PRNewswire/--- CIO of Kimberly-Clark formally inaugurates the new center Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH), a leading provider of global consulting, software, IT infrastructure and business process service ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Mar 11 2008 - 9:32am