Diseased or damaged arteries can now be replaced by a material made of knitted polyester coated with fine layers of a fluoropolymer. The new material, fluoropassive, has been made by Glasgow

Energy efficient, green lamps are here to reduce consumption of electricity round the globe

The study of sleep patterns in environments as wierd as outer space and underwater could be beneficial to public health in general

Pipelines have to be continuously monitored and checked in order to estimate damage. Uptill now this was done by installing flowmeters inside the pipe. Now, using a technique developed by

Twenty seven-year-old Tokihiro Masao recently walked out of the hospital after his surgeons removed his right ventricle and atrium. As heart transplants are forbidden in Japan, such an operation was

Orion Systems has come up with a new software that helps you to hunt for criminals on the intranet

Ganymede, the Jovian moon, has two planet-like features which were discovered last year: a magnetic field and the trace of an atmosphere. New data from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals that it

A new navigation system that uses voice-recognition technology is now available in the US. Developed by Amerigon of Monrovia, California, the Interactive Voice System(IVS) is not speaker dependent,

What makes a person dance to loud music? Neil Todd, a psychologist at the University of Manchester, UK, thinks that the urge has its roots inside the ears. Basing his arguments on studies on animals,

Technology is opening up new vistas for the world s underworld, as crooks learn to manipulate it to outwit their pursuers and captors