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Engineers envision an electronic switch just three atoms thick
By By Tom Abate | Stanford Engineering | 01 Jul 2014
The secrets of children’s chatter: research shows boys and girls learn language differently
01 Jul 2014
Girls and boys learn to use language differently; while girls were more likely to remember words, boys were more likely to create words and sentences in ‘real-time
India setting up world's second-largest gamma ray telescope in Ladakh
28 Jun 2014
The telescope is fitted with over 1,300 specialised diamond-turned mirrors that can capture gamma rays that hit the earth’s atmosphere from space more than 100 million light years away
Scientists create cheap, rechargeable organic battery
26 Jun 2014
The new battery – which uses no metals or toxic materials – is intended for use in power plants, where it can make the energy grid more resilient and efficient by creating a large-scale means to store energy for use as needed
Pest attacks can lead to bigger crop yields
25 Jun 2014
Researchers unveil experimental 36-core chip
By Larry Hardesty | MIT News Office | 24 Jun 2014
A new chip design using 36 cores lets chip manage local memory stores efficiently using an internet-style communication network
Root power for cancer and inflammatory diseases
23 Jun 2014
Study shows greater potential for low-cost solar power plants
23 Jun 2014
New analysis of large-scale 'concentrating solar power' plants suggests they could meet 70-80 per cent of electricity demand if they are linked together
UCLA researchers create nanoscale structure for computer chips that could yield higher-performance memory
14 Jun 2014
Professor disputes claims of computer passing Turing Test
14 Jun 2014
An Imperial College professor has disputed the claim of a computer pretending to be a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy had passed the Turing Test
Sailor teams up with researchers to make zero-carbon yacht
13 Jun 2014
A British sailor is teaming up with researchers from Imperial to develop a zero-carbon energy system for the yacht he aims to race around the world
Does 'free will' stem from brain noise?
12 Jun 2014
Rising CO2 poses significant threat to human nutrition: Harvard study
By By Todd Datz | 07 Jun 2014
University of Michigan building fake city to test self driving cars
07 Jun 2014
The fake city would be dubbed an “automated vehicle testing site facility” and operated by the university’s Mobility Transformation Center
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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
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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
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