The tail of a seahorse can be compressed to about half its size before permanent damage occurs, engineers at the University of California, San Diego, have found.

A blueprint for reversible wrinkling in composite materials

By Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office | 25 Apr 2013

An aircraft made entirely by a 3D printer takes flight

19 Apr 2013

Engineers at the University of Southampton have designed and flown the world’s first ‘printed’ aircraft, which could revolutionise the economics of aircraft design

Decoding the structure of bone

By David L. Chandler, MIT News Office | 17 Apr 2013

New type of solar structure cools buildings in full sunlight

By By Andrew Myers | 15 Apr 2013

Patterning graphene with DNA

By Anne Trafton, MIT News Office | 10 Apr 2013

Folded DNA templates allow researchers to precisely cut out graphene shapes, which could be used in electronic circuits.

Controlled surface diffusion may help define shapes of catalytic nanoparticles

10 Apr 2013

Microscopy uncovers "dancing" silicon atoms in graphene

08 Apr 2013

A new understanding of metallic glass

By By David L. Chandler, MIT News Office | 05 Apr 2013

Long predicted atomic collapse state observed in graphene

02 Apr 2013

New insulating plaster for Bamberg’s old town

01 Apr 2013

Trees used to create recyclable, efficient solar cell

28 Mar 2013

Solar cells are just like leaves, capturing the sunlight and turning it into energy. It’s fitting that they can now be made partially from trees

New solar-cell design based on dots and wires

By By David L. Chandler, MIT News Office | 26 Mar 2013

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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