Sweden uses tradition, technology to banish dark
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On Wednesday, girls across Sweden took part in an age-old celebration of light. They donned white robes tied with red sashes, settled crowns of candles on their heads, and served their families coffee.
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The scars are barely visible much of the time, hidden beneath a veil of black. Only in the evenings, when the men wash away the day's grime, do they come to light.
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A developer in Tokyo has created an add-on to Vodafone handsets that&#39;s meant to be used as a night filter to let people take pictures with their phones in the dark.
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By MATTIAS KAREN STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Sweden's government presented a contentious plan Thursday to allow a defense intelligence agency to monitor - without a court order - e-mail traffic and phone calls crossing the nation's borders.
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The transport sector is a major planet polluter but truckmakers in Sweden, where a clean environment has long been a top concern, are leading the way in climate-conscious production with eco-friendly plants.
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Using an open-source kit called the TV-B-Gone, it's possible for anyone to build a device that they can use to turn off annoying televisions.
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For Sweden's prime minister, celebrating New Year's after the Asian tsunami felt "completely wrong." Paris, its gay heart heavy with the tragedy, draped black cloth along a favorite haunt for romantic reveling &#151; the Champs-Elysees. Elsewhere, prayers substituted for parties in the final minutes of 2004.
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SCIENTISTS have sounded the death knell for the plug and power lead.   In a breakthrough that sounds like something out of Star Trek, they have discovered a way of 'beaming' power across a room into a light bulb, mobile phone orlaptop computer without wires or cables.
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NANOTECHNOLOGY -- engineering substances down to billionths of a meter in size -- holds out such promise of providing super-strong materials or desalinating water inexpensively that no one wants to put a red light in its way. But there are enough safety questions to justify more yellow lights than either industry or government has yet deployed.
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Scientists from across the globe gather to learn more about the ways in which light can be used in medicine.
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Decorative lamps created to lessen eye  strain while watching the earliest TV sets are resurfacing in  homes as kitschy night lights and artifacts of mid-20th century  "modern" living.
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Sweden's new Prime Minister ended 12 years of social democratic rule in Sunday's elections and now looks set to cut short an even older tradition.
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U.S. researchers said on Tuesday they have made the darkest material on Earth, a substance so black it absorbs more than 99.9 percent of light.
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By MATT MOORE     STOCKHOLM, Sweden  -- American researchers Dr. Richard Axel and Linda B...
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A new study in Sweden raises hopes for discovering the Holy Grail of AIDS research
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By Catherine Clabby, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Dec. 10--This time of year, when B.J. and Ashley Sintay step outside their Winston-Salem home, their Christmas lights flicker.   That's not an electrical glitch, it's a salutation -- from people as far away as Pakistan.
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Dark days are coming for analog cellular phones.