...the first transplant of complete arms after several years of preparatory work. The patient is doing well under the circumstances. Six years ago, the 54 year old farmer lost both his arms at upper arm level during an accident.

TOKYO - A powerful typhoon pounded Japan's southern Okinawa island chain Friday, cutting power to tens of thousands of households and grounding flights with winds up to 100 mph, officials said.

The world''s first commercial compressed air-powered vehicle is rolling towards the production line. The Air Car, developed by ex-Formula One engineer Guy Nègre, will be built by India's largest automaker, Tata Motors.

At last, solar energy is big enough and cheap enough to power electrical grids. Business 2.0 features the latest projects under the sun. By Todd Woody, Business 2.0 Magazine assistant managing editor

24 Species Believed New To Science Discovered In Suriname Rainforest. A frog with florescent purple markings . . . . "New to science" must mean it takes science a long time to catch up with reality. :)

BELTSVILLE, Md. - Unless someone or something stops it soon, the mysterious killer that is wiping out many of the nation's honeybees could have a devastating effect on America's dinner plate, perhaps even reducing us to a glorified bread-and-water diet.

The legend of Atlantis, the country that disappeared under the sea, may be more than just a myth. Research on the Greek island of Crete suggests Europe's earliest civilisation was destroyed by a giant tsunami.

A U.S. Navy proposal to build an Atlantic sonar training range off the coast of North Carolina has used flawed science to play down sonar's often-fatal danger to whales and ignore the facility's potential impact on local marine ecosystems

A jet aircraft with 270 passengers on board was within 35 seconds of crashing into a blazing Russian satellite as it was falling back to earth yesterday. Pilots of the A340-300 Airbus suddenly saw fiery debris streaking through the midnight darkness,

Overfishing of powerful sharks - a top predator in the ocean - may endanger bay scallops. With fewer sharks to devour them, skates and rays have increased sharply along the East Coast and they are gobbling up shellfish, researchs report.