Technology - general
Developing a new laser to detect methane leaks
10 Jul 2013
Solar cells turned into colourful creations
06 Jul 2013
Until now, designers of buildings have had no choice but to use black or bluish-grey coloured solar panels. With the help of thin-film technologies, researchers have now been able to turn solar cells into colourful creations
Researchers build an all-optical transistor
05 Jul 2013
An optical switch that can be turned on by a single photon could point toward new designs for both classical and quantum computers
App security testing tool developed
05 Jul 2013
Timing of tweets is clue to authenticity of tweeters
05 Jul 2013
Scientists determine the difference between human tweeters, those managed by groups of people and automated Twitter accounts based solely on the timing of tweets
Carbon-14 dating can be used to fight poachers
03 Jul 2013
Using RFID for fibre composites
03 Jul 2013
Protecting data in the cloud
02 Jul 2013
Scientists unravel DNA of ancient horse
01 Jul 2013
Is the Cloud the greenest way to go?
By By Megan Fellman | 01 Jul 2013
A study funded by Google finds moving software for email, CRM, and bundled productivity products like spreadsheets, file sharing, word processing, etc, to cloud could save significant energy
Genome of 700,000-year-old horse sequenced
01 Jul 2013
High-speed internet from the ceiling lamps
29 Jun 2013
A new technolgy makes it possible to use standard off-the-shelf LED room lights for data transmission, with data throughput with data throughput rates of up to 3 Gbit/s being reached in laboratory experiments
Making computers from a pencil trace
29 Jun 2013
Making computers from a pencil trace
29 Jun 2013
Large-scale quantum chip validated
28 Jun 2013
SLAC X-rays brings alive lost 200-year-old aria
By By Thomas Sumner | 27 Jun 2013
A 200-year-old opera by composer Luigi Cherubini can now be heard in full for the first time in centuries, after scientists blasted X-rays at the damaged musical score to peek at the musical notes hidden beneath a layer of smudgy black
4,000-year old Egyptian statue in UK museum rotates by itself
27 Jun 2013
An ancient Egyptian statue has left staff at Manchester Museum puzzled after it started slowly rotating inside its glass case
Getting the carbon out of power plant emissions
26 Jun 2013
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
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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
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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
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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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