Gel travel

Scientists fly rockets with toothpaste-like jelly

Bridge safety

Tiny magnets are the key to quake-proof buildings and bridges

The Mir conundrum

Squids of another kind

Rubbing up the right way!

Microscopic string like structures cause friction among surfaces

Light induced magnetisation

Truth behind white deposits

Water, clay and living cells

May soon revolutionize the field of tissue engineering  

Science & Technology - Briefs

Generating electricity from speed breakers

New software for more mileage

Smart reflectors

Gas on demand

Depleting gas resources can be overcome by creating natural gas... artificially!

Windy ways

A radical wikd turbine is being scaled up

Air power

Novel surgery

Riding the wind

Great balls of energy

Under the ocean floor lies an untapped source of energy

Mobile batteries

Speed in tennis

Sunny alternatives

Solar power is being used to run fax machines, computers and telephones

A speech for each

Telephone directory inquiries in Britain will use computers that converse with inquirers

NET WORK

Assembling power

The world's largest barge-mounted power plant will be operational in Pakistan by 1999

Sun-powered scooter