The Astronaut Glove Challenge award will go to the team that can design and manufacture the best performing glove within competition parameters. The $250,000 purse will be awarded at a competition scheduled for November 2006, when competing teams test their glove designs against each other.

All this week the BBC News website is speaking to people whose creativity has been transformed in the digital age.

Why one species branches into two is a question that has haunted evolutionary biologists since Darwin.

Pressure is building for greater use of video cameras to keep watch over the nation’s cities — particularly in transportation systems and other spots vulnerable to terrorism — after the bombings in London.

Business Week Magazine has just announced their list of the top 100 most valuable brands.

Three French companies, with an assist from the Finns and the Swedes, have combined their ingenuity to come up with a digital pen-and-paper system called PaperPC that, broadly speaking, digitizes anything you can write with a pen.