Australian scientist Yosry Morsi is ready to use tissue engineering to grow valves and tissues. Morsi says it is likely that the process he is now developing to grow artificial heart valves could likely be tested on animals in one year and used in humans within five years.

IBM has obliterated the competition in the supercomputing stakes with the top 10 of the top 500 supercomputers in the world, but Microsoft has surprisingly scraped in at number 23 with its Windows HPC Server system. While Microsoft is an unlucky 13 numbers away from the top 10, does the wow start now?

Curiouser and curiouser – the one company nobody really expected to get the iPhone, in Australia at least, has officially announced it will soon offer it for sale. But this doesn’t mean that initial rumours that all Australian carriers would be able to sell the iPhone aren’t true – until we get further confirmation.

An international study confirms that obese adults have twice the number of fat cells than normal-weight adults. Fat cells decrease or increase in size with weight changes but remain constant in numbers during adulthood.

U.S. researchers have found for the first time where humans first sense irritating odors such as rotten eggs, chlorine, and gasoline. It’s at the tip of your nose.