At some of America's most presigious research organizations, teams of expert engineers are hard at work building small avian robots, machines that can fly through the air in nature's time-honored

The orbit of the country's most advanced and powerful multipurpose satellite Insat-2E was on Tuesday increased after the successful second firing of the onboard liquid apogee motor.

Chemical giant DuPont Co. has found a new way to make a silky, stretchy polyster that it hopes one day will be far less expensive to produce than hot-selling microfibers. The fabric is made from

A 30-year old man has been arrested and charged with originating the e-mail virus known as Melissa, the New Jersey attorney general's office announced. David L. Smith of Aberdeen, New Jersey, was

Strands of DNA might someday be used as wires in computer chips and transistors a study suggests. Hans-Werner Fink and Christian Schoneberger of the University of Basel in Switzerland found that DNA

Weather monitoring and early warning on cyclones, floods and drought will improve substantially following the launch of the Insat-2E satellite on April

A Chennai based anti-virus software company, K7 Computing Pvt Ltd, claims to have found a cure for the Melissa virus which has been crippling e-mail systems aroudn the world since last Friday.The

Scientists at the Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO) are readying Insat-3B for a launch later this year, even as Insat-2E, the last of the second generation satellites in Insat series, is

Information on pollution will now be available at a price in Japan

The two-month-old strike by miners at the Cananea copper mines, in the northern Mexican province of Sonora is being seen as a blessing in disguise for an industry hard hit by falling prices. The