Car manufacturers are opting for new material compounds that could help build light vehicles with more magnesium and less petrol. In Hanover, Germany scientists are experimenting with magnesium

The race between Japan's two top auto makers to create affordable "green" cars is revving up. Toyota Motor Corp. giving a boost to one of the most promising technologies for reducing auto emissions,

Mexico was on the verge of losing a $250m satellite, seven years ahead of schedule, after a computer breakdown in space that has highlighted concerns about the country's satellite

Ford Motor Company is joining forces with BP Amoco to explore development of new fuel technologies, traffic management systems and environment policies. The companies have set up working groups to

If the US Patent Office does what it has said it will do, companies using the Internet for computer-to-computer international trade will have to pay a royally fee to Ed Pool. In the early 1990s

There are 88 of them weighing more than half a ton each, and they could start falling toward Earth next month-chunks of them splashing down in oceans and outbacks.Not killer asteroids, but $4 billion

In a report to President Bill Clinton last year, a group of leading computer scientists warned that the country faced a troubling "Software gap". In a new report, the group, known as the President's

For years Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. has been spitting out popular drugs that wind up in medicine cabinets from the U.S. to China, but now the New Delhi company follows an unusual strategy for a

All departments of the Delhi Government and its autonomous bodies have achieved Y2K compliance to prevent disruption in services, including supply of electricity by Delhi Vidyut

The government's Y2K control centre to ensure the country makes a smooth transition into the new millennium became operational on Tuesday. The control centre will be operational until 8.00 p.m on