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  • Eureka

    A physicist at London University last week predicted that "intelligent houses" would one day monitor our health, ensure that we were sticking to diets and book appointments with doctors if we were

  • US denies renewal of software import permit to IIT

    The US department of Commerce has struck at the computer centre of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai, by refusing to renew the permit to import a particular type of American software.

  • TEAM arm to make special membrane

    Titanium Equipment and Anode Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TEAM), which has been manufacturing sea water desalination plants since 1983, will commission its 100th plant on Sunday for Chennai Metro Water.

  • First U.S. station element to be launched Dec. 3

    NASA program managers set Dec. 3 as the official launch date for the STS-88 mission aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour. This is the first Shuttle mission dedicated to the assembly of the International

  • Eco-friendly boat pain could stop water pollution

    Japanese researchers have developed an environmentally-friendly boat hull coating that could provide an alternative to paints suspected of polluting waterways with hormone-disrupting chemicals.

  • Glitches reported in space station

    The five day old International Space Station has developed three small malfunctions, but they will not prevent it from docking with its next module early next month, the head of the Russian space

  • Robots get angry and emotional

    The first robot that can sense and show emotions is being developed as the ultimate interactive toy. The machine has been christened Kismet by its creator Cynthia Breazeal. She claims it will lead to

  • Paper from banana stalks

    A new technology to tranform stalks of banana plant into high-quality paper, rope, cardboard and twine has been developed by Australian researchers. It is based on an ancient egyptian technique of

  • Russia tests new missile

    After a failed launch in October, Russia successfully test-fired a new missile Topol-M that's expected to serve as the heart of its long-range missile forces in coming

  • Cars recycle their plastic waste

    Automobile manufacturers in France, in association with steel and plastic manufacturers, have developed new recycling technologies to use automobile scraps. Now, only 75 per cent of each vehicle can

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