A team of dermatologists think they’ve found a way of attaching skin grafts without the scarring and swelling that existing methods can cause. A new laser-activated glue that as well as treating skin burns, could one day be used to seamlessly join other tissues or seal blood vessels
Access to plain facts is on the auction block as a result of recent decisions in Australia and overseas that seek to tie up databases under international copyright laws
Citing security flaws that lead to ads and spies on Microsoft infested computers the BBC recommends avoiding Internet Explorer
If you’ve ever been pigeonholed by TiVo and Amazon’s automatic customer profiling, spare a thought for the guy the machine labelled as a pregnant gay man
The Miskovic family in the town of Danilovgrad, Montenegro thought a World War II artillery shell was the ideal replacement for a broken table leg — until it exploded, injuring eight people as they were about to eat a meal
Australian broadband community group Whirlpool is claiming victory over Telstra after the Telco sent a letter to its ISDN Home customers admitting it may have been overcharging them since the beginning of the year
Almost half of all Australian households cannot get access to ADSL, and Australia continues to lag behind the rest of the Western world in broadband connections
Australian-developed software for managing university research administration is making inroads, with the University of Sydney the latest to sign up for the program
In a unique crackdown on illegal file-sharing, a Danish anti-piracy group mailed invoices to alleged pirates demanding compensation for downloading copyrighted materials off the Internet
Online identity theft is nothing new, but recently there’s been a growing number of scams aimed at commandeering eBay accounts
AOL is testing a standalone email client that could set the stage for a features battle with Microsoft in the market for Internet-based communications software
Melbourne-based Keypoint has joined the ranks of Australia’s largest ISPs after finalising its acquisition of 20 smaller regional service provider
Enzo Boschi, head of Italy’s Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology, has said that a volcanic island submerged off the coast of Sicily for the last 170 years could reappear in the coming weeks if furious seismic rumblings continue
Connecticut-based TopCoder awarded US$50,000 to John Dethridge, a University of Melbourne PhD candidate, for winning the Division 1 programming tournament
The US Government has moved to relax emissions restrictions on older, mainly coal-fired power plants, drawing praise from the power industry but criticism from environmentalists
Passers-by alerted fire-fighters after hearing noises emanating from a locked dumpster. Within minutes of arriving at the scene, the occupant was rescued but fire-fighters say the puppy turned out to be a very large and apparently well-fed rat
The microphone-shaped Karaoke TV Star, from IVL Technologies, answers the impossible dream of enthusiastic shower singers everywhere: Being able to belt out a song without scaring the pets or small children
Tom Martin, a professor at Virginia Tech’s electrical and computer engineering department, is working to prevent new types of denial-of-service attacks aimed at battery-powered mobile devices
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