Electronics
Next-generation LED: integrating LED and high-electron-mobility transistor on a gallium nitride chip
07 Jun 2013
Solving a semiconductor riddle
28 May 2013
Harvard team develops robotic insect - Robobee
03 May 2013
Battery low? Give your mobile some water
30 Apr 2013
The charger is both a fuel cell and a portable battery, providing a direct power source as well as a storage buffer for the fuel
Locust-inspired vision for car sensors
01 Mar 2013
Researchers develop new method of controlling tiny devices
By By Bill Kisliuk | 27 Feb 2013
New technique scales up graphene micro-supercapacitor production
By By Davin Malasarn | 22 Feb 2013
MIT researchers build Quad HD TV chip
By By Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office | 21 Feb 2013
A new video standard enables a fourfold increase in the resolution of TV screens, and an MIT chip was the first to handle it in real time.
A taste of the graphene sandwich
14 Feb 2013
Humans, robots work better together following cross-training
By By Helen Knight, MIT News correspondent | 12 Feb 2013
Spending a day in someone else’s shoes can help us to learn what makes them tick. Now the same approach is being used to develop a better understanding between humans and robots, to enable them to work together as a team
Bionic man on display at London's Science Museum
07 Feb 2013
The human-like machine, called Rex, incorporates a host of latest advances in bionic limbs, as well as artificial pancreas, kidney, spleen and trachea
The armchair as a fitness trainer
04 Feb 2013
Tiny lights could spark communications revolution
01 Feb 2013
Minute LED lights could deliver Wi-Fi-like internet communications, while displaying information and illuminating homes
Researchers demonstrate record-setting p-type transistor
By By Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office | 04 Jan 2013
The new transistor also features what’s called a trigate design, which could solve some of the problems that plague computer circuits at extremely small sizes
Engineers develop new energy-efficient computer memory using magnetic materials
By By Matthew Chin | 17 Dec 2012
Copper, gold and tin for efficient chips
08 Dec 2012
Stanford builds underwater robots to explore treacherous deep-ocean terrain
By By Melissa Pandika | 04 Dec 2012
Engineers at Stanford's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute have developed autonomous underwater vehicles that can photograph regions of the ocean floor that were once too risky for these robotic explorers
Featured articles
Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Jan 2024
In March 2013 Chinese scientists pulled off a remarkable feat. They created the world’s lightest aerogel. Tipping the scales at a mere 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimeter – that’s a sixth of the weight of air!
COP28 explained: A closer look at COP28's climate change solutions
By Aniket Gupta | 27 Dec 2023
The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28, took place from 30th November 2023, to 13th December 2023, at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
What is a Ponzi scheme?
By Aniket Gupta | 06 Dec 2023
Ponzi schemes have long captivated the public imagination, drawing unsuspecting investors into a web of illusion and deception.
The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation