30/03/2006

Why spiders' silk threads don't twist

Unlike a mountain climber swinging from a rope, a spider suspended from its silk thread hardly ever twists. Although the flexibility and strength of a spider’s dragline outperforms the best synthetic fibres, surprisingly ...

Web bookies not worried by NCAA underdogs

Although heavy underdog George Mason University, who once sat at 400-1 odds, is two victories away from winning the NCAA Basketball Tournament, it's not the team that has online betting sites most frightened.

Study: Hi-tech to drive global economy

Technology will both fuel and facilitate continued growth of the world economy, a study released in Silicon Valley Thursday concluded.

New eBook technologies hitting market

Sometimes you see them out of the corner of your eye. They'll be hunched over on the bus or leaning against a wall on the subway, their eyes glancing over a Palm or BlackBerry PDA. Sometimes they're going over e-mail or work ...

U.K. biometric ID card faces questions

The introduction of biometric national identification cards to the United Kingdom now seems like an inevitability. Yet doubts have been raised by a committee in the House of Commons itself about whether existing technology ...

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