Technology - general
Building Better Batteries
27 Dec 2016
The hidden inferno inside your laser pointer
26 Dec 2016
Brain: the last frontier
23 Dec 2016
Scientists build bacteria-powered battery on single sheet of paper
22 Dec 2016
The manufacturing technique reduces fabrication time and cost, and the design could revolutionize the use of bio-batteries as a power source in remote, dangerous and resource-limited areas
Driverless platoons
22 Dec 2016
Scientists bear witness to birth of an ice cloud
21 Dec 2016
Robots to increasingly replace ‘regular’ sex between people: experts
20 Dec 2016
Questions that will face regulators involve how much data to allow robots to collect about their human partners and send back to their manufacturers
Carbon dots dash toward ‘green’ recycling role
19 Dec 2016
Internet use in class tied to lower test scores
17 Dec 2016
Warning: Surfing the internet in class is now linked to poorer test scores, even among the most intelligent and motivated of students
Manipulating brain activity to boost confidence
16 Dec 2016
Alternative fuel cell technology reduces cost
14 Dec 2016
Alternative fuel cell technology reduces cost
14 Dec 2016
Water: finding the normal within the weird
14 Dec 2016
Sawdust reinvented into super sponge for oil spills
13 Dec 2016
The lowly sawdust has been chemically modified to make it exceptionallyoil-attracting, absorbing up to five times its weight in oil and staying afloat for at least four months
How do we keep GPS safe from sabotage?
10 Dec 2016
Latest articles
Featured articles
The remarkable Ratan Tata
By Kiron Kasbekar | 23 Oct 2024
One newspaper report of Ratan Tata’s passing away showed an old photo of him climbing into the cockpit of a Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter.
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