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Hydrogen from sunlight -- but as a dark reaction
10 Dec 2016
Finger swipe-powered phone? We're 1 step closer
10 Dec 2016
Keeping electric car design on the right road
10 Dec 2016
Half of people believe fake facts
08 Dec 2016
Apple to start publishing its AI research
07 Dec 2016
Scientific breakthrough reveals unprecedented alternative to battery power storage
07 Dec 2016
Breakthrough research has discovered new materials offering an alternative to battery power - 1,000 to 10,000 times more powerful than the existing battery alternative - a supercapacitor
Microfactories turn unwanted electronics into valuable metal alloys; solve global e-waste crisis
07 Dec 2016
The breakthrough new process recovers the considerable wealth of resources embedded in e-waste while overcoming the challenges of toxicity and the often prohibitively high costs of conventional industrial-scale recycling
Researchers find cosmic dust in cities
06 Dec 2016
Scientists map human thought for the first time
06 Dec 2016
Portions of the brain fall asleep and wake back up all the time, Stanford researchers find
05 Dec 2016
Humanity on brink as AI to decimate jobs: Stephen Hawking
03 Dec 2016
The automation of factories has already decimated jobs in traditional manufacturing, and the rise of artificial intelligence is likely to extend this job destruction deep into the middle classes, warns Stephen Hawking
DroneGun takes down drones from 1.2 miles away
29 Nov 2016
First caesarean where mother survived dates back to 1337
28 Nov 2016
The first birth by caesarean section where both the mother and child survived may have taken place in 1337 in Prague, researchers claim
Bringing silicon to life
26 Nov 2016
Theory that challenges Einstein’s physics could soon be put to the test
25 Nov 2016
Scientists behind a theory that the speed of light is variable - and not constant as Einstein suggested - have made a prediction that could be tested
Your dog remembers more than you may think, find scientists
24 Nov 2016
Scientists have confirmed what dog-owners have often suspected — that their pets know more than they are able to let on
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By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Jan 2024
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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