The electricity industry in UK wants power companies to collect up to 100m pounds from households to fund a scheme to aid disadvantaged electricity users. The idea for a 4 pounds a year levy on
Recent developments by Biosense, a small Israeli company, are being used to diagnose and treat atrial fibrillation and other cardiovascular diseases. Biosense, recently bought by Johnson & Johnson of
U.S. regulators, alarmed about bombing sales of cigars and their sudden popularity among teenagers, are about to end decades of leniency toward the industry. The Federal Trade Commission is moving
There was a time when medical science had declared victory in the war against TB. Today TB has made a comeback.At present the South East Asia region,alone bears 40 percent of this staggering
Residents of Melamchi,Nepal, who had been using unclean river water for a long time will be finally provided with clean water.A drinking water project is to be constructed at Melamchi bazaar with the
The Clinton administration is losing its battle to increase international controls over how reliably computer data can be scrambled to ensure privacy, according to a
The shock caused by the physicist Richard Seed's grandoise intention to clone human beings may be about to cause more damage than anything Dr. Seed could do in the laboratory. Senate Republicans are
A Bangalore scientist has identified a vegetable oil made from the common 'honge' plant which is an effective and cheap substitute for diesel. Dr U Shrinivasa, professor, Department of Mechanical
When Dr. Peter H. Raven, scientific advisor to US President Bill Clinton inaugurates a conference on medicinal plants in Bangalore on 16-19 Feb '98, the increasingly vulnerable arena of green
Twelve nations meeting in La Jolla, California, concluded negotiations on February 7, 1998, on a legally binding tuna-dolphin fisheries conservation agreement. Unlike most international agreements,
