Scottish Hospitals to face random checks on cleanliness

Following an audit of NHS hospitals in Scotland, it has been announced that Scottish hospitals will face random health and safety checks over the coming year."INSPECTORS are to make random checks on hygiene levels and infection control in Scottish hospitals as part of a ...

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...

Student shot, killed in Tennessee high school

"KNOXVILLE, Tennessee (AP) -- A student fatally shot a 16-year-old classmate during a dispute Thursday at a Knoxville high school, and a suspect was taken into custody moments later on a nearby street, authorities said. ...

Spin flip trick points to fastest RAM yet

"Do you wish your computer was faster? Engineers and physicists from Germany have demonstrated the quickest prototype yet of an advanced form of RAM tipped by hardware manufacturers to be the future of computing. The device is so fast it brushes against a fundamental...

Salman Rushdie Condemns Cancellation of Muhammad Novel

" Rushdie, whose "The Satanic Verses" led to a death decree in 1989 from Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and forced the author to live for years under police protection, said the Random House Publishing Group had allowed itself to be intimidated. "I am very disappointed...

Work at Home? Your Employer May Be Watching

"The clipboard toting, clock-watching, quota-setting productivity expert, peering nosily over your shoulder at work, has been out of fashion in business schools for decades.Now he's back, in electronic form -- in the home office.In a budding trend some employment experts say...

Leaders to admit E Timor abuses

Finally truth has prevailed upon the leaders of Indonesia. After many years of Independence of Est Timor Indonesian leaders have have formally accepted to support militias with weapon , funding and operation help to target pro-independence supporters. This startling...

Tracking cell phone use could help curb epidemics -- study

Tracking demographic movement through cell phone usage can potentially curtail spread of communicable diseases, researchers found." Scientists searching for patterns in seemingly random human movements have found that people, in the aggregate, go about their daily lives with...