Ants take the shortest route to success

An Israeli mathematician offers proof of how ants, without a bird's eye view of their terrain, are still able to follow a straight route to food

Learning Sanskrit on computers

A software programme project that will be a boon to those who want to learn Sanskrit is threatened by a lack of funds.

The magic eye

Sounds almost like a sci-fi movie, but there is light in the dark for those who have lost their eyesight. A high-tech curing device is on the anvil

Browsing for criminals

Orion Systems has come up with a new software that helps you to hunt for criminals on the intranet

Fast option

Researchers are optimistic of developing a superfast switch with the help of a hopping electron

Chipping in for smoothness

Researchers discover ways to facilitate flawless flow of information through chips of the future

Ten years hence

Computers that shop for you, satellites that prevent accidents and creams that actually remove wrinkles -- these are some of the technological …

On your palms

Better customer service, more convenience for the salesperson and on-the-spot deals are now possible with the help of palmtop computers

Archaeology goes hi-tech

Scholars need not touch ancient finds to study and store them, as computers take over the arduous task

Flying gamble

Computers have played second fiddle to analogue techniques in safety-critical systems and though airlines are switching to fly-by-wire technology,…

Passwords passe

Even for adroit forgers, goings will become hard as a new fingerprint recognition system may replace passwords in the near future

Gateway to success

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Website review: http://www.inequality.org

The global divide in income, health and wealth has only widened further in this era of unregulated capitalism. And there are no signs of it being …

Website review: http://www.yaw.nhm.ac.uk/nhm/index.html

This web site is the brainchild of UK scientists, who have hit upon an effective method to counter the controversy surrounding the names of the …

Computing a remedy

Idling away

Most household electronic devices waste a lot of energy doing simply nothing

Sign of the times

Mona, a computer-generated figure, will teach written English to deaf children in the US

Rounded off

Future of the ubiquitous personal computer is going to be spherical

Radio or not, here it comes

Is it a radio or a computer? A British company turns the ordinary PC into a digital radio

Weighing those words

Scientists have come up with yet another software to assess writing skills

Policing the Net

Quantum leap

Crank-up your laptop

The laptop talks!

Liquid crystals produce sounds. Will we have tiny speakers?

Logging on to a fresh row