Technology - general
Battery500 consortium to spark EV innovations
28 Jul 2016
New movie screen allows viewing without 3D glasses
27 Jul 2016
A new movie screen that allows for glasses-free 3-D prototype display enables viewers to watch a 3-D movie from any seat in a theater
New lithium-oxygen battery greatly improves energy efficiency, longevity
By By David L. Chandler | MIT News Office | 26 Jul 2016
In a foundational breakthrough, which may shift the paradigm of oxygen-based batteries, a new chemistry could overcome key drawbacks of lithium-air batteries
Watching the brain do math
25 Jul 2016
A battery inspired by vitamins
21 Jul 2016
Researchers found inspiration from vitamin B2, which helps to store energy from food in the body
Researchers build a crawling robot from sea slug parts and a 3-D printed body
20 Jul 2016
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have combined tissues from a sea slug with flexible 3-D printed components to build “biohybrid” robots that crawl like sea turtles on the beach
Robot earns its shoes, walks like a person
19 Jul 2016
What do you give a robot when it takes its first steps like a human? Its first pair of shoes
Organic electronics may be coming
16 Jul 2016
Organic electronics may be coming
16 Jul 2016
Mars Orbiter finds more carbon dioxide ice at poles
12 Jul 2016
The surface in some dusty parts of Mars, becomes so frigid overnight that an extremely thin layer of carbon dioxide frost appears to form, which vapourises in the morning
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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