Posts Tagged ‘Madison’

Taken at the Madison Square Garden during Celine Dion's Taking Chances world tour. Full story

Washington, Apr 7 (ANI): Hugh Hefner celebrated his 83rd birthday with a pool party at the Palms Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, hosted by none other than his ex-girlfriend Holly Madison. And the birthday bash was Hefner and Madison's first meeting after their split last year. "I haven't seen him since I left the mansion," Fox News quoted Madison as saying. She added: "And ... Full story

Washington, Mar 31 (ANI): Model and TV personality Holly Madison has revealed that she does not like it when her photos are retouched. The revelation comes just after American socialite Kim Kardashian defended her own curves, saying that she did not mind if an untouched photograph of hers was displayed on the Internet. "Kim ... Full story

Washington, Mar 27 (ANI): Hugh Hefner's ex-girlfriend Holly Madison has suffered a rib injury while rehearsing for U.S. reality TV series 'Dancing With The Stars'. But the 'Girls Next Door' star has vowed to continue competing on the show. She was called up as a late replacement for singer Jewel, who was diagnosed with tendinitis ... Full story

Washington, March 27 (ANI): American scientists have made a significant advance in finding a way to endow human skin cells with embryonic stem cell-like properties without inserting potentially problematic new genes into their DNA. Dr. James A. Thomson of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, whose team was supported in part by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, claims that this is the first time that any ... Full story

Washington, Mar 18 (ANI): Just five minutes of sustained physical activity can help prevent childhood obesity, according to a study. Researchers from Queen's University in Ontario, Canada, have revealed that several bursts of exercise that last five minutes or more may be better for preventing childhood obesity than ... Full story

London, March 14 (ANI): A scientist is analyzing the age of craters found on the Moon in the 1990s to find out if they are the same age as the others, which would support the idea that asteroids bombarded the inner solar system about 4 billion years ago. Most surveys ... Full story

Washington, March 6 (ANI): A new study has suggested that although ecologists expect many species will be harmed by climate change, some species could be buffered by their potential to evolve or by changes in their surrounding ecosystems. The study, by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the ... Full story

London, February 25 (ANI): Adam Sandler has been slapped with a copyright infringement suit by a comic book writer, who claims the actor stole his idea for the film 'You Don't Mess With The Zohan'. Writer Robert Cabell turned to the Manhattan Federal court and filed legal papers against the 'Reign Over Me' star and chiefs at Happy Madison Productions, Sony and Columbia Pictures in New ... Full story

Washington, Feb 23 (ANI): A study has revealed that Barack Obama played a big role in changing the way the whites thought about African-Americans, even before he was elected US President. The researcher carried out by Florida State University Psychology Professor E. Ashby Plant and University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Patricia Devine recorded a decrease in racial prejudice. The decline was seen during the Fall 2008 period between ... Full story

Washington, Feb 13 (ANI): In a rather massive feat, scientists have reported the sequences for all of the 99 known strains of cold virus. Unravelling the code of nature's most ubiquitous human pathogen, the researchers have exposed in precise detail, all of the molecular features of the many variations of the virus responsible for the common cold. The team-consisting of experts from the University of Maryland School ... Full story

Washington, February 13 (ANI): Having demonstrated in their previous studies that skin cells could be turned back into stem cells, University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists have now shown that such "induced" cells can actually form the specialized cells that make up heart muscle. Reporting their findings in the journal Circulation Research, the researchers claimed that that they were able to grow working heart-muscle cells from induced pluripotent ... Full story

New York, February 12 (ANI): Jessica Simpson and Tony Romo have reportedly shot down rumours of drifting away after the couple were spotted spending a cozy evening together. The pair were recently seen thinning out the distance at the Great Dane Pub in Madison, after Simpson's concert opening for the Rascal Flatts tour. The New York Post quoted a witness telling Page Six that the duo ... Full story

Washington, Feb 11 (ANI): Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, US, have developed a two-step method to convert the cellulose in raw biomass into a promising biofuel. The process is unprecedented in its use of untreated, inedible biomass as the starting material. The key to the new process is the first step, in which cellulose is converted into the "platform" chemical 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF), from which ... Full story