Engineering
What plants can teach us about oil spill clean-up, microfluidics
21 Mar 2018
A new study takes a cue from leaf structure to fabricate material that can separate oil spills — one of the worst manmade disasters with environmental and economic consequences
Texas company building 3D printed houses for $10,000
14 Mar 2018
Austin startup ICON has devised a method of mass producing small homes using a massive 3D printer in a process that the company claims will take just 12 to 24 hours to build a home
ESA’s new thruster uses air as fuel
09 Mar 2018
Robo-picker grasps and packs
22 Feb 2018
The `pick-and-place' system consists of a standard industrial robotic arm that the researchers outfitted with a custom gripper and suction cup controlled by an 'object-agnostic' grasping algorithm that enables the robot to assess a bin of random objects and determine the best way to grip or suction onto an item amid the clutter, without having to know anything about the object beforehand
Improving drone performance in headwinds
10 Feb 2018
From laboratory to marketplace
06 Feb 2018
Changing the colour of 3-D printed objects
30 Jan 2018
Using their own 3-D printable ink that changes colour when exposed to UV light, researchers can recolour a multi-coloured object in just over 20 minutes
DJI reveals its newest drone, DJI Mavic Air
25 Jan 2018
Small but fast: A miniaturised origami-inspired robot combines micrometer precision with high speed
18 Jan 2018
Drug manufacturing that’s out of this world
16 Jan 2018
Featured articles
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
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