Technology - general
EU and US regulators approve Google-Motorola merger
14 Feb 2012
Regulators have warned Google that they would monitor its use of Motorola Mobility’s portfolio of 17,000 patents, particularly those that are deemed standards essential
A robot sketches portraits
13 Feb 2012
Breakthrough in designing cheaper, more efficient catalysts for fuel cells
By By Robert Sanders | 10 Feb 2012
Transmitted electrons show diffraction patterns in an SEM
By By Tim Palucka | 10 Feb 2012
Electrical engineers build “no-waste” laser
10 Feb 2012
New model predicts speed of spreading valleys
06 Feb 2012
Low-cost photovoltaic panels from plant material may be alternative to traditional solar cells
By By David L. Chandler, MIT News Office | 04 Feb 2012
Wireless power could popularise electronic vehicles
02 Feb 2012
Stanford researchers have designed a new technology that could lead to wireless charging of electric vehicles while they cruise down the highway.
Fuel from market waste makes methane car fuel
01 Feb 2012
Mushy tomatoes, brown bananas and overripe cherries — to date, waste from wholesale markets has ended up on the compost heap at best. In future it will be put to better use: Researchers from Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft have developed a new facility that ferments this waste to make methane, which can be used to power vehicles.
Researchers shed light on the mystery surrounding energy-rich molecules in interstellar clouds
01 Feb 2012
Experiments provide some answers on fighting fires in space
By By Ioana Patringenaru | 01 Feb 2012
Laser hints at how universe got its magnetism
30 Jan 2012
What drove the lunar dynamo?
By By Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office | 28 Jan 2012
Research supports theory that the moon’s molten core is likely to have been sustained by an alternative power source
New fluorescent dyes highlight neuronal activity
By By Scott LaFee | 27 Jan 2012
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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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