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Quantum race accelerates development of silicon quantum chip
27 Jan 2018
The worldwide race to create more, better and reliable quantum processors is progressing fast, as a team scientists showed that quantum information of an electron spin can be transported to a photon, in a silicon quantum chip
When the eyes move, the eardrums move, too
24 Jan 2018
We may not be aware of it, but simply moving the eyes triggers the eardrums to move too, indicating that motion in the ears and the eyes are controlled by the same motor commands deep within the brain
Artificial intelligence predicts corruption
24 Jan 2018
Inverse-design approach leads to metadevices
23 Jan 2018
New technique for finding life on Mars
23 Jan 2018
Making fuel cells for a fraction of the cost
23 Jan 2018
The world's most powerful acoustic tractor beam could pave the way for levitating humans
22 Jan 2018
Could AI compromise better than humans?
22 Jan 2018
Bio-renewable process could help 'green' plastic
22 Jan 2018
Let the good tubes roll
19 Jan 2018
A fossil fuel technology that doesn’t pollute
15 Jan 2018
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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.
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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