Online consumer money-saving deals website DiscountVouchers.co.uk is right now able to help people save money on their fashion and photography needs ahead of the summer holiday season. The popular voucher codes specialist has announced new deals which can be redeemed at leading stores including Jessops, White Stuff and Boden. Saving money on clothes for the beach or the hotel bar on a summer holiday is always popular with consumers, and the new DiscountVouchers.co.uk deals include money off at top fashion outlet White Stuff this week. Consumers can start saving thanks ...

The man behind the leading medical hub for hand and wrist related procedures and treatments, the Hand and Wrist Institute, Dr. John T. Knight is to appear in television's leading medical-related shows: The Doctors. Dr. Knight's appearance on the show would require him to talk about joint replacement, primarily in the hands and wrists, to give the television show's viewers an overview of how things really work; how doctors perform joint replacement procedures; and the symptoms, signs, and other important information to keep the viewing public informed. Aside from being ...

Food & Drink Digital, a top digital media source for global food and drink news and information reaching over 155,646 C-Level executives and more than 49,814 companies worldwide announces the launch of its newly developed Front of Book story featuring Top 10 Franchise Start Ups. In 1954, Burger King was founded by Miami entrepreneurs James McLamore and David Edgerton with a simple concept: to attract the number of postwar baby boom families growing by the day with reasonably-priced, broiled burgers served in a speedy fashion. The Burger King menu has evolved from a basic ...

Eight genes which control levels of the main steroid produced by the adrenal gland, believed to play a role in ageing and longevity, have been uncovered by an international consortium of scientists, co-led by King's College London. Crucially, some of these eight genetic regions are also associated with important diseases of ageing, including type 2 diabetes and lymphoma. Researchers say that these findings, published in the journal PLoS Genetics today, provide the first genetic evidence for the ageing role of the steroid, and therefore highlights it as a marker of biological ...

In the April issue of Business Review Australia, the nation's top ten export commodities are named and profiled. From iron ore and metallurgical coal to thermal coal and gold, the article highlights each export's 2011-2012 value, as well as world price, players and forecasts for the future. In regards to iron ore and pellets, "World trade of iron ore is forecast to increase by 5% to 1.1 billion tons in 2011. Chinese imports are projected to continue to grow strongly and the major growth in iron ore supply is expected to come from Australia." Read the full article ...

A team led by Professor Andre Geim, a recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize for graphene, can now show that electric current – a flow of electrons – can magnetise graphene. The results, reported in Science, could be a potentially huge breakthrough in the field of spintronics. Spintronics is a group of emerging technologies that exploit the intrinsic spin of the electron, in addition to its fundamental electric charge that is exploited in microelectronics. Billions of spintronics devices such as sensors and memories are already being produced. Every hard disk drive ...

Five years ago, patients with Marfan syndrome received new hope when laboratory studies suggested that losartan, an FDA-approved drug used to treat high blood pressure, might prevent the potentially deadly enlargement of the aorta that the syndrome can cause. Now, researchers have a clearer picture of the cellular signals that contribute to progression of aortic aneurysm in Marfan syndrome and how losartan alters those signals. The new information is expected to help guide treatment decisions, as well as efforts to develop therapies that might offer benefits that losartan ...

The Johns Hopkins researchers who first showed that the commonly used blood pressure drug losartan may help prevent life-threatening aneurysms of the aorta in patients with Marfan syndrome have now discovered new clues about the precise mechanism behind the drug's protective effects. The team's findings not only answer many lingering questions — including how exactly the drug works and whether other classes of blood-pressure medication may work as well as or better than losartan — but also identify new targets for treating Marfan and other connective-tissue disorders. ...

The April issue of Energy Digital is available to read exclusively online to all energy industry leaders from around the globe. This month's issue features a unique new system for well site inspection to boost safety and efficiency. Industry leaders turn to Energy Digital for the latest news about cutting edge energy technologies, global energy infrastructure, developments in green and sustainable energy and the corporate activity in the sector. Read the full article here.About Energy Digital Energy Digital is a leading digital media source of news and content for ...

Recording people belting out an old Motown tune and then asking them to listen to their own singing without the accompanying music seems like an unusually cruel form of punishment. But for a team of scientists at the University of California, San Francisco and University of California, Berkeley, this exact Karaoke experiment has revealed what part of the brain is essential for embarrassment. The twist to the experiment was that most of the subjects had neurodegenerative diseases, which helped scientists identify a thumb-sized bit of tissue in the right hemisphere of the ...

Producing hydrogen in a sustainable way is a challenge and production cost is too high. A team led by EPFL Professor Xile Hu has discovered that a molybdenum based catalyst is produced at room temperature, inexpensive and efficient. The results of the research are published online in Chemical Science Thursday the 14th of April. An international patent based on this discovery has just been filled. Existing in large quantities on Earth, water is composed of hydrogen and oxygen. It can be broken down by applying an electrical current; this is the process known as electrolysis. ...

There's no denying that social media, by many once considered a here-today-gone-tomorrow fad, is a key arrow in a marketer's quiver. It's word of mouth on steroids and free, right? Or not. Social media experts in Kenya and South Africa warn companies not to view social media marketing, on platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, as free. Yes, these platforms are umpteen times more cost-effective that traditional advertising such as TV or print, but do need time, money and strategic thought to be effective. "Although putting content onto Facebook using fan pages is ...

A serendipitous discovery by academics at The University of Nottingham has shown that a simple illusion can significantly reduce — and in some cases even temporarily eradicate — arthritic pain in the hand. By tricking the brain into believing that the painful part of the hand is being stretched or shrunk, the researchers were able to halve the pain felt by 85 per cent of sufferers they tested. The research could point to new technologies of the future which could assist patients in improving mobility in their hand by reducing the amount of pain they experience while ...

Approximately 20% of Spaniards take non-prescribed medication and women are the group most inclined towards this practice. This is the conclusion of a research study carried out by experts from the Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid, which also links this habit to nationality, income level and alcohol and tobacco consumption amongst the population. "In spite of the negative connotations generally associated with the idea of self-medication, it is actually the most significant method of self-care for the population", explains Pilar Carrasco, main author of the study ...

Motion sensor technology is taking the gaming world by storm. Although it took a long time to reach the shelves, the Xbox Kinect has fully lived up to its hype and expectation after reaching sales figures of 10 million in March 2011 and soon became the fastest selling consumer electronics device of all time, for which it holds a Guinness World Record. Although the Nintendo Wii still remains the market leader, it seems like the Kinect will soon overtake this industry stalwart in the popularity stakes, with the PlayStation Move hot on its competitor's heels. Positioned ...

Genetically modified bacteria could be used in air filters to extract pesticide vapors from polluted air thanks to work by researchers in China published this month in the International Journal of Environment and Pollution. The bacteria Escherichia coli is perhaps best known as a bacterium that can cause food poisoning and in one form, the O157:H7, can damage the kidneys and even be lethal. However, E coli, is commonly used in biological research as a model organism for a wide range of beneficial experiments. Now, researchers in China have discovered that a genetically ...

Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. -- One way of discovering a gene's function is to switch it off and observe how the loss of its activity affects an organism. If a gene is essential for survival, however, then switching it off permanently will kill the organism before the gene's function can be determined. Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have overcome this problem by using RNA interference (RNAi) technology to temporarily turn off any essential gene in adult mice and then turn it back on before the change kills the animals. In a study published online on April ...

Atlanta-based inABLE races to earn a permanent spot on the GlobalGiving website by mobilizing at least 50 unique donors before the end of April to raise $4,000. Help inABLE win this challenge at http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/computer-labs-for-the-blind. inABLE shares hope and opportunity by bringing life changing, computer-based educational tools to Africa's blind and visually impaired students. The seed of inspiration behind inABLE was planted in 2008 when Atlanta resident Irene Mbari-Kirika traveled back to her native country Kenya and encountered an engaging ...

In the first scientific results from the new European telescope LOFAR (Low Frequency Array) to appear in a journal – Astronomy & Astrophysics – the scientists present the most sensitive, low-frequency observations of pulsars ever made. The International LOFAR Telescope is the first in a new generation of massive radio telescopes, designed to study the sky at the lowest radio frequencies accessible from the surface of the Earth with unprecedented resolution. Deep observations of pulsars is one of its key science goals. Dr Benjamin Stappers, from the School of Physics ...

Badbeat.com, the original and leading online poker staking business, is running a TT Race promotion throughout the lead up to the Isle of Man TT in May, offering its sponsored players Main Event tickets to the UKIPT Newcastle worth GBP500. From 9am May 1st to 9am June 1st, any qualifying Badbeat sponsored player who wins a hand holding TT (a pair of tens) will have a chance to win a UKIPT Newcastle Main Event ticket. Badbeat will award one prize for every ten players who qualify. "We're always looking for innovative ways to reward our sponsored players and they ...

Using human kidney cells and brain tissue from adult mice, Johns Hopkins scientists have uncovered the sequence of steps that makes normally stable DNA undergo the crucial chemical changes implicated in cancers, psychiatric disorders and neurodegenerative diseases. The process may also be involved in learning and memory, the researchers say. A report on their study appears online April 14 in Cell. While DNA is the stable building block of all of an individual's genetic code, or genome, the presence or absence of a methyl group at specific locations chemically alters ...

Researchers from North Carolina State University have created a range of soft, elastic gels that change color when exposed to ultraviolet (UV) light – and change back when the UV light is removed or the material is heated up. The gels are impregnated with a type of photochromic compound called spiropyran. Spiropyrans change color when exposed to UV light, and the color they change into depends on the chemical environment surrounding the material. The researchers made the gels out of an elastic silicone substance, which can be chemically modified to contain various other ...

alqemyiQ, a leader in demand data analytics for the consumer goods industry, announced today that it has signed an enterprise agreement with JOH to expand the DataAlchemy software solution for automating the category and sales reporting process across their entire organization. "JOH, a leading regional food broker in the United States, has been using DataAlchemy since 2008," said Glenn Geho, COO of alqemyiQ. "It has been thrilling to see the impact that our desktop software solution has had on JOH's reporting of insights. We look forward to helping JOH uncover more ...

Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine will present several key studies at the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) annual meeting, including research providing critical insight into the prognosis and clinical treatment course of people with a certain subtype of Multiple Sclerosis (MS). The meeting is taking place April 9-16 in Honolulu. In a study titled "Evaluation of Progressive Relapsing MS Patients in the PROMISE Trial," Fred Lublin, MD, Saunders Family Professor of Neurology and the Director of the Corinne Goldsmith Dickinson Center for Multiple Sclerosis ...

An International team of scientists in the XENON collaboration, including several from the Weizmann Institute, announced on Thursday the results of their search for the elusive component of our universe known as dark matter. This search was conducted with greater sensitivity than ever before. After one hundred days of data collection in the XENON100 experiment, carried out deep underground at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory of the INFN, in Italy, they found no evidence for the existence of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles – or WIMPs – the leading candidates for the ...