Scientists say one of the world's newest supercomputers is already setting records at a U.S. national laboratory less than a month after being activated.The Los Alamos National Laboratory's Roadrunner supercomputer operates at the petascale. The prefix

President Ruth Simmons' ambitious agenda is altering Brown's traditional identity as a "university-college." For the architects of Brown's current path, the university-college identity is enduring and guides the current agenda. But in the eyes of som

Nottingham Trent University is offering postgraduate students the chance to learn the psychology behind online gaming, gambling and dating. The Masters in Cyberpsychology will run as part of the university’s School of Social Sciences.

A new drug candidate could provide protection against Alzheimer's disease. This compound could also treat a number of diseases where patients suffer from cognitive deficits, such as schizophrenia and Parkinson’s, by limiting damage to the brain. The ne

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.----Targacept, Inc. , a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a new class of drugs known as NNR Therapeutics , today announced the designation of a lead compound in its smoking cessation program, triggering a $500,000 mile