Watch company Linde Werdelin has unveiled a new design they call the Sea Instrument, the world's first luxury dive computer. The Sea Instrument can be attached on top of the Linde Werdelin Biformeter watches, for divers of all

A new generation of treatments for some of the most serious diseases affecting mankind could soon be lost in a wave of animal and plant extinctions, leading scientists have warned. A host of organisms, from trees and frogs to sharks and

GM soya produces about 10 per cent less food than its conventional equivalent, contradicting assertions by advocates of the technology that it increases yields.

Meanwhile, a quieter online conflict has come into focus, with Tibetan rights groups saying they are facing a growing number of digital attacks--even more than when protests first escalated.

A team of academics based at the University of Washington have announced an exciting breakthrough in dye-sensitized solar cell technology. Researchers studying solar cell configurations discovered that by using a design based on a popcorn ball (tiny spher

Ample resources wasted, global study warns � Biofuels exacerbating shortage of food crops

NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, the first female commander of the International Space Station, returned to Earth at approximately 4:30 a.m. EDT Saturday, ending a mission during which she conducted five spacewalks and set a new record in American spacefligh

And who is listening? I posted a story on this years ago in UseNet and was laughed at. Why are we laughing if we don;t know what it means?

An international team of astronomers has identified huge star streams in the outskirts of two nearby spiral galaxies.The detection of these immense stellar fossils confirms the predictions of the cold dark matter model of cosmology,which proposes that >>

A new form of cloning has been developed that is easier to carry out than the technique used to create Dolly the sheep, raising fears that it may one day be used on human embryos to produce "designer" babies.