Father Christmas is calling into London before he gets too busy this festive season. Over the weekend of 8 and 9 December, Father Christmas along with his huskies will come to London Wetland Centre with a sleigh full of goodies for children under eight. As part of Winter Wonderland Weekend there will be free husky sleigh rides and photo opportunities with the cuddly, furry friends. A Santa's Grotto set amidst Christmassy fir and pine trees will host Father Christmas and Merlin the Magician who together will hand out presents and plenty of Christmas cheer. Don't forget ...

The countries G Adventures will visit for the first time in 2013 are: Albania, Australia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Iceland, Montenegro, New Zealand, Scotland, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka and Sweden. Michael Edwards, managing director, G Adventures, says the extended programme is a perfect mix of new far-flung destinations as well as some that are less-travelled and closer to home. "G Adventures is known for uncovering new destinations and offering life-changing experiences by giving travellers real insight into people and cultures. This continues ...

Christmas is a happy time for most people, but sadly not for many underprivileged children. It's hard to believe but every year there are still many children in the UK who receive nothing for Christmas. Foresters UK, the international financial services organisation, is very proud to be working with Bauer Radio's Cash For Kids Christmas Toy Appeal 2012 as part of their Mission Christmas 2012 initiative. Foresters UK is committed to hands-on help through our members. Cash For Kids have highlighted that there is always a shortage of presents donated for babies, so ...

Wayne Sedawie has travelled and investigated the ancient Mayan sites and agrees with the local Mayans that a new beginning is at hand, not an end! After studying the geology from numerous aspects of the Mayan land and history, the minerals that are available in that part of the world and encountering fascinating stories such as the recent discovery of Sphagnum moss in the Andes mountain of Peru, he concludesthat the ancient Mayan civilisation was larger than previous estimates. There were hundreds of towns with thousands of inhabitants, some up to 60,000 people with ...

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FrontDoorSoftware Corporation, a young start-up company that provides universities with a Safe Campus computer program that allows students, faculty and staff on campus access to valuable laptop theft prevention and tracking software, has recently added six new prominent universities to its growing client base. The new universities include Alabama A&M University, Brigham Young University Hawaii, California State University Fullerton, Cornell University, University of California Irvine and University of Southern California (USC). "Universities are now making ...

Beginning Thanksgiving Day, November 22nd and ending on Monday the 26th, Toyota Place is hosting the Black Friday Weekend Sale, where customers can take advantage of some of the lowest financing of the year as well as cash back offers. They can also benefit from Toyota Place's policy on new Toyotas that have been purchased at their dealer: free car washes for life, free tires for life, and free maintenance for two years or 25,000 miles, whichever comes first. Customers can enjoy zero percent financing for 60 months for the following vehicles: 2012 Toyota Camry and RAV4, ...

Firelight Fusion, maker of what could be the best e cigarette deal on the web has announced an incredible Black Friday through Cyber Monday sale that makes other electronic cigarette companies blush with shame in light of their offers. The company already touts free shipping, lower prices and free batteries on qualified purchases as everyday standards, but now the company is announced an additional Black Friday e cigarette sale on their blog that is sure to turn heads across the tobacco and smokeless cigarette markets during the kickoff of the 2012 Holiday Season. "We ...

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It's one of the basic tenets of biological research – by studying simple "model" systems, researchers hope to gain insight into the workings of more complex organisms. Caenorhabditis elegans –tiny, translucent worms with just 302 neurons – have long been studied to understand how a whole nervous system is capable of translating sensory input into motion and behavior. New research conducted by the laboratory of Aravi Samuel in the Harvard Physics Department and the Center for Brain Sciences, however, is uncovering surprising sophistication in the individual neurons ...

November 21, 2012 — (BRONX, NY) — During embryonic development, the all-important coronary arteries arise from cells previously considered incapable of producing them, according to scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. The research, carried out in mice and published today in the online edition of the journal Cell, may speed development of regenerative therapies for heart disease. The research, carried out in mice and published today in the online edition of the journal Cell, may speed development of regenerative therapies for heart ...

Ottawa (November 23rd, 2012) - An in-depth, authoritative assessment of women in university research has found that although there has been significant progress in the representation of women in the university research ranks, there are still gender equity challenges that must be overcome and the passage of time will not be enough to ensure parity. A newly released report by the Council of Canadian Academies entitled, Strengthening Canada's Research Capacity: The Gender Dimension provides an assessment of the the factors that influence university research careers of women. ...

PHILADELPHIA — New understanding of molecular changes that convert harmless cells surrounding ovarian cancer cells into cells that promote tumor growth and metastasis provides potential new therapeutic targets for this deadly disease, according to data published in Cancer Discovery, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. "New approaches for treating patients with ovarian cancer are desperately needed," said Ernst Lengyel, M.D., Ph.D., professor in the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Chicago. "There have been no new approaches ...

Unraveling the mechanism that ovarian cancer cells use to change normal cells around them into cells that promote tumor growth has identified several new targets for treatment of this deadly disease. In the December issue of the American Association for Cancer Research journal Cancer Discovery, a team or researchers from the University of Chicago Medicine and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine show that ovarian cancer cells induce nearby cells to alter their production of three microRNAs—small strands of genetic material that are important regulators ...

In comparison to modern birds, the prehistoric Archaeopteryx and bird-like dinosaurs before them had a more primitive version of a wing. The findings, reported on November 21 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, lend support to the notion that birds are the descendants of gliding dinosaurs that spent much of their days in the trees. "By studying fossils carefully, we are now able to start piecing together how the wing evolved," said Nicholas Longrich of Yale University. "Before, it seemed that we had more or less modern wings from the Jurassic onwards. Now it's ...

Cancer therapies often have short-lived benefits due to the emergence of genetic mutations that cause drug resistance. A key gene that determines resistance to a range of cancer drugs has been reported in a study published by Cell Press November 21st in the journal Cell. The study reveals a biomarker that can predict responses to cancer drugs and offers a strategy to treat drug-resistant tumors based on their genetic signature. "We need to understand the mechanisms of drug resistance to effectively prevent it from occurring in the first place," says senior study author ...

Women live longer than men. Individuals can appear or feel years younger – or older – than their chronological age. Diseases can affect our aging process. When it comes to biology, our clocks clearly tick differently. In a new study, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues elsewhere, describe markers and a model that quantify how aging occurs at the level of genes and molecules, providing not just a more precise way to determine how old someone is, but also perhaps anticipate or treat ailments and diseases that come ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- One of the biggest puzzles in neuroscience is how our brains encode thoughts, such as perceptions and memories, at the cellular level. Some evidence suggests that ensembles of neurons represent each unique piece of information, but no one knows just what these ensembles look like, or how they form. A new study from researchers at MIT and Boston University (BU) sheds light on how neural ensembles form thoughts and support the flexibility to change one's mind. The research team, led by Earl Miller, the Picower Professor of Neuroscience at MIT, identified ...

A*STAR scientists have identified the enzyme, telomerase, as a cause of chronic inflammation in human cancers. Chronic inflammation is now recognized as a key underlying cause for the development of many human cancers, autoimmune disorders, neurodegenerative diseases, and metabolic diseases such as diabetes. This enzyme, which is known to be responsible for providing cancer cells the endless ability to divide, is now found to also jumpstart and maintain chronic inflammation in cancers. In identifying this enzyme, inflammation can be prevented or reduced, and the common ...

Stretching across central Africa, the Congo Basin forest is the second largest tract of rainforest in the world and a lifeline for more than 60 million people – providing food and income for many remote communities, storing huge amounts of carbon, supporting unique ecosystems and regulating the flow of the major rivers across Central Africa. Yet the Congo's forests are being cleared at an alarming rate amid global demand for the continent's minerals, energy and wood resources. Current methods and rates of extracting these resources are unsustainable and threatening the ...

TORONTO, Nov. 21, 2012-- New research has found there are several different ways that kidney tumours can achieve the same result – namely, grow. Scientists have been trying to figure out how different people have kidney tumours with the same histology, or shape, although the genetic changes can vary among individual tumours. Solving that puzzle could have implications for the diagnosis and treatment if kidney cancer, which has 35 per cent mortality rate and is becoming more common. Despite advances in early detection and treatment, the mortality rate hasn't changed in ...

Published in the Comunicación journal, a study conducted by the University of Seville analyses violence content in Spanish TV series. It concludes that Telecinco's Sin tetas no hay paraíso is the most violent of the five studied. Despite the fact that other series have more scenes or minutes of violence, according to the study, the Telecinco series is more powerful in its transmission of values that are more detrimental to youngsters in terms of their perception of aggressive behaviour and its consequences. Sara González, the author of the study, explains to SINC ...

A consortium of researchers led by WMG at the University of Warwick are to embark on a £3 million research programme called "Cleaning Land for Wealth" (CL4W), that will use a common class of flower to restore poisoned soils while at the same time producing perfectly sized and shaped nano sized platinum and arsenic nanoparticles for use in catalytic convertors, cancer treatments and a range of other applications. A "Sandpit" exercise organised by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) allowed researchers from WMG (Warwick Manufacturing group) at ...

In order to find out about its migrations, various research centres in South Africa, Sweden, Canada, Chile, Australia, Spain, Argentina and Switzerland have conducted research detailing its routes and expansion periods. A significant new fact has emerged and it is that the wasps returning to Europe from Chile and South Africa have undergone a genetic micro-evolution which makes them more resistant to their natural European enemy, a nematode that sterilises them. The Sirex noctilio wasp is regarded as a secondary pest in Europe because in this geographical area there is ...

"Methods are required that take the social and environmental impacts of business operations better into account, both within the company and among its network of partners and stakeholders," says Uusitalo. "If a change cannot be effected, the current unsustainable way of life will continue, and we might also miss some opportunities for creating new business. Market share is at stake here." According to Uusitalo, other companies and customers demand that companies take a wider view of sustainable development. "Legislation will also inevitably lead development in this ...