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New welding technique welds “un-weldable” metals
16 Nov 2015
Shocking new way to get the salt out
14 Nov 2015
The system uses an electrically driven shock wave within a stream of flowing water, which pushes salty water to one side of the flow and fresh water to the other, allowing easy separation of the two streams
Nanopores could take the salt out of seawater
12 Nov 2015
A nanometer-thick sheet of molybdenum disulfide riddled with nanopores, is specially designed to let high volumes of water through but keep salt and other contaminates out
Microbes map path toward renewable energy future
12 Nov 2015
MIT engineers develop hydrogel superglue that is 90% water
10 Nov 2015
The hydrogel, which is a transparent, rubber-like material, can adhere to surfaces such as glass, silicon, ceramics, aluminum, and titanium with a toughness comparable to the bond between tendon and cartilage on bone
Fingerprinting ivory
09 Nov 2015
Amplifying — or removing — visual variation
By By Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office | 09 Nov 2015
New lithium air batteries could be 10x more powerful than current batteries
05 Nov 2015
A new technology could free everything from smartphones to electric cars from the limits placed by lithium ion batteries
A basis for all cryptography
03 Nov 2015
A tool that would provide a secure foundation for any cryptographic system may be close at hand
Towards a smarter grid
31 Oct 2015
The smart grid will also be much more distributed than the current network, which controls a relatively small number of generators to provide power to millions of passive endpoints
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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