BORDEAUX - FROM solar panels to 'intelligent' barrels, climate change and economic slowdown are pushing winemakers to seek new ways of getting grapes into the glass.
WASHINGTON - A SEATTLE company is hoping to convert the motion of the ocean into electricity.
Grays Harbour Ocean Energy Company has asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for permits to harness energy from waves off the coastline of six states.
LONDON - HAPPINESS is infectious and can 'ripple' through social groups such as family and friends - but work colleagues are apparently immune to each other's moods, according to a study published on Friday.
The effect creates 'clusters' of happy and unhappy people, both socially and in geographical terms, said the study, stressing that contentment 'is not merely the province of isolated individuals'.
BERLIN - ALL those resuscitation attempts ending in predictable failure are obviously having an effect: heavy watchers of TV medical dramas are scared of hospitals, new research showed on Thursday.
Researchers at the German Surgery Society (DGCH) said that people who watch programmes like House or ER more than the average viewer have difficulty telling fiction apart from reality when it comes to medical matters.
