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  • Man-Machine II

    The double barrelled word has three quite distinct connotations. the first is a human being fitted with artificial replacements of vital parts and/or limbs, as medical repair at present envisage how

  • Method gets lead out of high-sulphur steel

    The Tohoku National Industrial Research Institute in Japan said it has developed a technology toward producing steel with a relatively large percentage of sulfur that does not contain toxic lead yet

  • Fly from London to New York in an hour

    The prospect of flying from London to New York in an hour is looking like a possibility. Researchers at Nasa's Langley Research Centre in Virginia are poised to test a revolutionary "scramjet" engine

  • Space shuttle of the future

    This is that the space shuttle may look like after 2003. Nasa plans to upgrade it by using strap-on-liquid-propellant boosters to replace the solid-fuel rocket boosters. After providing the extra

  • ISRO leases transponders on Thai satellite

    The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has leased transponders on a Thai satellite for one year during which time it will launch two of its own satellites. An ISRO press release issued at

  • Space age telephony come on line

    But who will use it ? : A new state of the art telephone system, linking telephone sets directly to a network of 66 satellites, is being launched on Septermber 23 by a US company. The technology will

  • Monitor ensures aircraft have accurate head for heights

    Engineers at Siemens Roke Manor Research laboratories in Hampshire have devised a system that it hopes will allow the UK's National Air Traffic Services Organisation (Nats) to increase the accuracy

  • Dust mites bite the dust

    UK scientists have designed a novel bedding material which can kill dust mites, the tiny creatures thought to cause asthma. Developed by British textile company Courtaulds, the bedding, called

  • Smart guns can check identities before firing

    In one developing technology in US, a microchip in the weapon stores images of the authorized users' finger-prints . Another technology uses radion waves to identify an intended user. In both cases,

  • Magnetic slide

    A group of students at R.V. College of Engineering in Bangalore have developed a proof-of-concept system to demonstrate that magnetic forces can be used to move a slide in machine

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