Author Adichie Wins Orange Prize

"Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been named winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. She beat five other contenders for the £30,000 women-only award, including Kiran Desai, shortlisted for her Booker Prize winner The Inheritance of Loss. Adichie's...

Cell splits water via sunlight to produce hydrogen

This reminds me of the old electrolysis demonstration, but on an energy efficient level."Engineers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a unique photocatalytic cell that splits water to produce hydrogen and oxygen in water using sunlight and the power of a...

Hostile Intent Technology

The Department of Homeland Security is developing new biophysical sensors and detectors designed to detect "hostile intent" on the part of people crossing borders."The novel program, named “Hostile Intent,” is geared towards detecting and gauging physiological and...

Religious sleuths and plots find growing flock of fans

"Sister Agatha was an investigative reporter before taking the veil. She courses the roads in and around Bernalillo and Albuquerque in a cherry-red, 1986, classic Harley-Davidson motorcycle with a sidecar. Pax, a large, white German shepherd, who was once a police dog, rides...

Death Needs A Mop

"In his top-of-the-heap book, Markus Zusak gives all you would expect in a novel about wartime Germany. But his trick is to make Death his narrator, writes Marianne Brace HOW do you write a fresh story about the Holocaust? Australian novelist Markus Zusak has cracked it with...