If you think tongue to be the only sensory organ accomplished of distinguishing between tastes, you are mistaken; here, it’s made possible electronically. This handheld electronic tongue devised by Cecilia Jiminez-Jorquera from the Barcelona...

NASA’s Phoenix lander has discovered a toxic chemical in soil near Mars’ north pole, dimming hopes for finding life on the Red Planet, the probe’s operators said Monday. The Phoenix lander’s inverted scoop prepares to take soil...

Health Minister A Ramadoss may finally breathe a sigh of relief. Shah Rukh Khan [Images] has decided to give up smoking. “I am planning to quit smoking for the sake of my children, who hate to see me smoke,” Shah Rukh Khan said, in an...

In a bid to highlight Beijing’s history and rich culture, the Olympic torch relay will start at the Meridian Gate Square of the Forbidden City tomorrow. “The three-day relay will cover 39 km with 841 torchbearers participating,” Sun...

For anyone puzzled by recent polls showing an even race between presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain, one factor may be the reluctance of the youth-oriented Obama campaign to show older voters the respect they deserve. Not only are...

The class IX student of the Asaram Bapu Ashram-run school here who allegedly killed two of his hotel mates, was today sent to Juvenile Court in the neighbouring Narsinghpur district. A woman Sub-Inspector, an Assistant Sub-Inspector and two Constables...

Fraunhofer Institute for Information and Data Processing and Mettler Toledo have been more than effective in providing us with newer check-out scales. They’ve come up with a fresh one, able enough to tell between an apple and an orange. These scales...

Well, this may sound weird and implausible - your skin receiving and broadcasting signals and aiding the medical practitioners to use it for wireless communication sufficing medical implants- still it’s true. Researchers at Queen’s University...

Have you noticed how acceptable and widely-used English has become? Even when people are speaking Hindi, English words keep popping up. I’m sure this is equally true of conversations in Bengali, Tamil, Telegu, Assamese or Kashmiri. In contrast,...

Barack Obama and Kumari Mayawati have a lot in common. One is a Black politician who represents the great liberal hope in the US. The other is poised to usher in a new political order where the oppressed castes will finally get their due in a polity...