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Hokkaido University researchers in Japan are investigating a 'smart' material that could be useful in bio-medical applications. Hydrogels -a cross-linked polymer network filled with water

CHINA has turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to the violent protestations raised in the rest of the world and gone ahead with yet another nuclear test on August 17. Earlier, Chinese authorities

DESPITE all efforts to marginalise the chasm between the genders, the Human Development Report (hdr), 1995, has documented gender disparities still existing in the world. Prepared against the

A weather event which Peruvians once regarded as a boon is now recognised as causing terrible global disasters

A recent study gives disturbing revelations about the impact that everyday use chemicals may have on the human sperm count and even induce sex change

Scientists have found a gene that checks the spread of prostate cancer to other parts of the body

US's Democrats and Republicans break common bread over the fairness, or otherwise, of the Regulatory Reform Bill that could make industry accountable for the phenomenal fouling of America

CAN IT: Rotten foodstuff in sealed tin cans will now be a thing of the past. Elbicon, a Belgian company which produces equipment for food processing industries, has developed a new quality control

The report vn the economic assessment of a global climate change meet creates mayhem