In the deep, dark ocean, many sea creatures make their own light for hunting, mating and self-defense. Bioluminescence expert Edith Widder was one of the first to film this glimmering world. At TED2011, she brings some of her glowing friends onstage, and shows more astonishing footage of glowing undersea life.
Video about alcohol, particular focus on ethanol which is found in alcoholic drinks.
How climate change will affect public health, socioeconomic and ecological trends in the Mediterranean Region? Researchers from all over Europe, North Africa and Middle East are gathering in Rome and discussing these issues in the Final Conference (23-25 May 2011) of CIRCE (Climate Change and Impact Research: the Mediterranean Environment), the research project funded under the Sixth Framework Programme of European Union (EU). The aim of the meeting is to summarise 4-years project major outcomes and achievements on the effects of climate change in the Mediterranean Basin.
In 2010, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has approved the lowest number of new drugs in the last decade. This is not surprising, considering that it takes at least 10 years to register a drug, the total cost is about one billion dollars, and that at least 9 out of 10 of those for which clinical development is initiated, fall by the wayside. Some striking example? Rimonabant for obesity and metabolic syndrome, the monoclonal antibody ocrelizumab for rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus.
