NASA Successfully Tests ‘Interplanetary Internet’

" Although the crew of the spacecraft Endeavour experienced a glitch in the first space walk when an astronaut accidentally let her tool bag float away, NASA had a lot to celebrate as it announced success with a high-tech space program. NASA, along with Vinton Cerf, a...

New players challenge world order

[New players challenge world order Brazil, Russia, India and China, the so-called Brics, are predicted to emerge as major world players by 2050. In this,...

Who's who on Obama's new team

Who's who on Obama's new team Since winning the US presidential election, Barack Obama has wasted little time assembling a team to help him govern. The BBC News website has put together...

Tokyo Fashion Overview

"Introduction For much of the last 50 years, since the modern fashion industry developed, cities like New York, Paris, London, and Milan have all been centers of new trends, fashions, and brands that have...

OECD says gap between rich and poor in UK among widest in world

The gap betweeen rich and poor in the UK continues is one of the widest in the world, according to new figures in a report released today. The gap has grown by  25 percent in the last 20 years. However this rate of growth is less than other industrialized Western...

Innovation leading to self

" " In a breakthrough study, European physicists have developed a unique computer circuit that can build itself - a development that can lead to self-assembling computers. Scientists took a long organic molecule with mobile electrons, called quinquethiophene that acts...