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Workers at Wisconsin company to get microchips
25 Jul 2017
Chandrayaan data reveals new evidence of water in the moon's interior
25 Jul 2017
The researchers looked at data from the Moon Mineralogy Mapper, an imaging spectrometer that flew aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter and found evidence of water in nearly all of the large pyroclastic deposits that had been previously mapped across the Moon's surface
3-D scanning with water
24 Jul 2017
Now, you can name that scotch
22 Jul 2017
Shh! Proven security for your secrets
20 Jul 2017
Holograms taken to new dimension
20 Jul 2017
Crossword solvers have brains 10 years younger than their age!
18 Jul 2017
If you are one of those that needs their daily crossword fix, don’t be put off by dimwits telling you it’s a waste of time – scientists have shown that your brain may be 10 years younger than your actual age
Diesel is now better than gas
18 Jul 2017
Chinese scientists set new record for quantum teleportation
15 Jul 2017
A team of Chinese scientists has teleported protons from a ground station in Tibet, 4km above sea level, to a satellite orbiting Earth a little over 480km away
Why a single nuke's impact shouldn't only be measured in megatons
14 Jul 2017
As the notion of nuclear hostilities leaps from its old, Cold War perch into modern debate, new calculations by researchers show that even a limited nuclear strike could have disastrous global consequences that could cost a billion lives
Musk’s Hyperloop comes closer to reality, completes test
13 Jul 2017
It was the first phase of a multi-phase programme which was privately conducted on 12 May at the company’s test track, ‘DevLoop’, in the Nevada Desert
Musk’s Hyperloop comes closer to reality, completes test
13 Jul 2017
It was the first phase of a multi-phase programme which was privately conducted on 12 May at the company’s test track, ‘DevLoop’, in the Nevada Desert
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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
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