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BY KEITH NUTHALL AND PHILIP FINE

IN the aftermath of the September 11 tragedy, the shocking images of two planes slamming into two of the most famous buildings in the world fuelled a strong desire tighten up security systems around the world, especially in civil aviation.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
NIPPON Paper Industries Co., Ltd. of Japan has developed a new type of printing paper called Pegasus Harmony, that is lightweight, white and prevents strike through, the penetration of printing through the paper). The company says that its luster has been improved, with three-dimensional images of photographed products being displayed more clearly, with sharply reduced glaring.…

BY MARK ROWE
MUSEUMS and research institutions are being warned that they risk losing vast amounts of digital information unless new techniques are developed to conserve the material.

Until recently all that was needed to archive information recorded in traditional forms such as the printed page, analogue tape or film was the physical storage place to house the material.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
SCI-FI flicks, the likes of Terminator II and Total Recall, feature futuresque scanning of objects and people to verify if they were porting any dangerous weapons or were lying about what they carrying in suspicious bags; now, this kind of portable and instant inspection has made it from the big screen to current security technology used daily in customs screenings.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE KING of Thailand has become involved in a landmark trade ruling that could have major implications for Thailand’s huge trade in counterfeit T-shirts. The Thai Intellectual Property department has ruled that the manufacturer of a T-shirt carrying the picture of a stray dog adopted by King Bhumibol Adulyadej has copyright of the image for the rest of their life – and for a further 50 years beyond that.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
Australian researchers have invented a super-microscope that minutely examines the chemical components of a wide range of minerals and then produces a clear image to work from.

It is being hailed as a breakthrough by geologists and mining companies.…

Keith Nuthall
ONE of the more uplifting stories to emerge from the World Trade

Centre disaster was the way Merrill Lynch, the world’s largest stockbroker,

got its people back at work and its systems running again so quickly

afterwards. Ian Ross, business continuity manager at Merrill Lynch, told

delegates at this week’s 2-day contingency planning and disaster recovery

in financial services conference in London how it happened and what was

learnt.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TECHNOLOGICAL advancement seems to go hand in hand with miniaturisation; witness the development of the mobile phone from its 1980’s high-tech brick to today’s tiny handset; smaller than the devices used by Captain Kirk in the early Star Trek episodes that peered centuries into the future.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT is a curious fact that whilst Britain has a lot more wind than Germany, it has significantly less wind power electricity generation. Also, why has a country blessed with as much sun as Greece, failed to develop solar panels as quickly as its fellow southern Mediterranean EU Member State Spain?…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW report from the European Environment Agency has described the wide gulf between Member States’ performance on renewable energy generation and highlighted a number of reasons for this. The top performer for 1993-9 was Germany, which surged ahead with the development of photovoltaics, solar thermal installations and wind generated energy output.…