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Alan O. Trounson, embryonic stem cell research and invitro fertilization specialist, from Australia, has been nominated as president of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), that is at the top of California’s stem cell program worth $3 billion.

Mr. Trounson has a glorious record in research & investigation, management skills and confronting Australia's controversial politics circling embryonic stem cell research.

Trounson is well-known through-out the world for his work in stem cell investigation and human fertilization.

Singur: Nirupam Sen, West Bengal Minister for Commerce and Industry said that Tata Motors is all set to roll out 2.50 lakh units from the small car project by the coming year (2008), and the production capacity is expected to reach 3.50 lakh in the next few years.

Mr. Sen told a CPM public meeting in Singur, “I hope that next year, the first year of its production, 2.50 lakh small cars will roll out of the Tata Motors project here and the figure will reach 3.50 lakh in the coming years.”

A new research showed that using the birth control pill cut down the overall woman’s risk of developing cancer.

A study at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland analyzed records from a 36-year study, which discovered that any increased risk of breast and cervical cancer related to the use of pill seems to be wiped out by long-term protection from other types of cancers.

The cancer risk was up to 12% lower among those women who had used up the contraceptive pill.

Washington, Sept 16: Physicists at the University of California, Riverside have found that electrons conduct electricity in Graphene the same way balls bounce back from the walls of a billiards table.

Graphene is a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice of carbon atoms, and, structurally, is related to carbon nanotubes (tiny hollow tubes formed by rolling up sheets of graphene) and buckyballs (hollow carbon molecules that form a closed cage).

London, Sept 16: A couple slept the entire night without realizing that a swarm of wasps had built a nest beneath the pillows of their bed.

Mr and Mrs Hames noticed a strange buzzing when they retired to bed, but they ignored it assuming that it would be a single wasp.

"Clive was tired and told me the wasp could stay there for the night and to go to sleep," Daily Mail quoted Mrs Hames, as saying.

When 57-year- old Vicky Hames got up in the morning, she still heard the buzzing.