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Storage system for ‘big data’ dramatically speeds access to information
By By Helen Knight, MIT News correspondent | 05 Feb 2014
Using multiple nodes allows the same bandwidth and performance from a storage network as far more expensive machines.
Turkeys inspire smartphone-capable early warning system for toxins
By By Sarah Yang | 27 Jan 2014
Expanding our view of vision
By Anne Trafton, MIT News Office | 27 Jan 2014
New brain-scanning technique allows scientists to see when and where the brain processes visual information
Researchers from Berkeley Lab, University of California at Berkeley, create “e-whiskers’ for robots
27 Jan 2014
In the brain, timing is everything
By By Anne Trafton, MIT News Office | 25 Jan 2014
Neuroscientists have now discovered how two neural circuits in the brain work together to link memories of events that occur one after the other.
Rothamsted Research submits application to Defra for permission to carry out GM field trial
By By Jagdeep Worah | 24 Jan 2014
Experiments to produce fish oil from plants gather pace
By By Jagdeep Worah | 24 Jan 2014
The particular fish oils that benefit the health of both fish and humans, called EPA and DHA, are not in fact produced by fish themselves but instead accumulated by eating marine microbes
Focus research on water, energy and environment: CNR Rao
24 Jan 2014
The eminent scientist who has been conferred honorary doctorates by 60 universities from around the world, wants Indian scientists to solve societal problems
Access to guns triples suicide risk
23 Jan 2014
Someone with access to firearms is three times more likely to commit suicide and nearly twice as likely to be the victim of a homicide as someone who does not
How to tap the sun’s energy through heat as well as light
By By David L. Chandler, MIT News Office | 20 Jan 2014
New approach developed at MIT could generate power from sunlight efficiently and on demand. By David L. Chandler, MIT News Office
Both sides of brain are used in speech: study
18 Jan 2014
In a discovery that goes against prevailing concepts of brain activity involved in speech,researchers show have shown that all parts of speech are functional in both sides of the brain
Ford, Georgia Tech debut new solar car concept
16 Jan 2014
Ford Motor's C-MAX Solar Energi Concept harnesses the power of the sun by parking under a special concentrator that acts like a magnifying glass, directing intensified rays from the sun onto solar panels on the parked vehicle’s roof below
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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
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