Technology - general
Birmingham Quran manuscript dated among the oldest in the world
24 Jul 2015
Thanks to modern scientific methods, a Quran manuscript in the UK has been dated among the oldest in the world - close to the time of Prophet Muhammad, who is generally thought to have lived between AD 570 and 632
Researchers find prawn solution to spread of deadly disease
22 Jul 2015
A Stanford-led study finds that freshwater prawns can serve as an effective natural solution in the battle against a potentially deadly parasitic disease that infects about 230 million people
Siting wind farms more quickly, cheaply
20 Jul 2015
Mosquitoes use smell to see their hosts
18 Jul 2015
Neuroscientists decipher brain’s noisy code
17 Jul 2015
Toward cheaper water treatment
16 Jul 2015
Chemists devise technology that could transform solar energy storage
15 Jul 2015
The materials in most of today's residential rooftop solar panels can store energy from the sun for only a few microseconds at a time. A new technology has been developed to store solar energy for up to several weeks - an advance that could change the way scientists think about designing solar cells
Cutting cost and power consumption for big data
14 Jul 2015
Elon Musk funds Oxford, Cambridge research on safe and beneficial AI
13 Jul 2015
Tesla Motors and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, who fears AI as "summoning the demon", hopes his research would help develop safer Artificial Intelligence
An innovative project to bring electricity to rural India receives a boost
10 Jul 2015
Approximately 70 per cent of Indians live in rural communities with only 44 per cent of these households having access to electricity