Technology - general

Chandrayaan data reveals new evidence of water in the moon's interior

25 Jul 2017

The researchers looked at data from the Moon Mineralogy Mapper, an imaging spectrometer that flew aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter and found evidence of water in nearly all of the large pyroclastic deposits that had been previously mapped across the Moon's surface

Space-age prospectors gearing up to mine the moon

24 Jul 2017

Computers using linguistic clues to deduce photo content

24 Jul 2017

3-D scanning with water

24 Jul 2017

Ultrathin device harvests electricity from human motion

22 Jul 2017

Now, you can name that scotch

22 Jul 2017

Shh! Proven security for your secrets

20 Jul 2017

Scientists design solar cell that captures nearly all energy of solar spectrum

20 Jul 2017

Holograms taken to new dimension

20 Jul 2017

Non-toxic alternative for next-generation solar cells

19 Jul 2017

Crossword solvers have brains 10 years younger than their age!

18 Jul 2017

If you are one of those that needs their daily crossword fix, don’t be put off by dimwits telling you it’s a waste of time – scientists have shown that your brain may be 10 years younger than your actual age

Diesel is now better than gas

18 Jul 2017

Scientists design low-cost smart glove capable of wirelessly translating sign language

17 Jul 2017

Chinese scientists set new record for quantum teleportation

15 Jul 2017

A team of Chinese  scientists has teleported protons from a ground station in Tibet, 4km above sea level, to a satellite orbiting Earth a little over 480km away

Harvard scientists encode GIF of galloping horse into DNA of living cells

14 Jul 2017

Engineers design stairs that make it easier to climb up

14 Jul 2017

Why a single nuke's impact shouldn't only be measured in megatons

14 Jul 2017

As the notion of nuclear hostilities leaps from its old, Cold War perch into modern debate, new calculations by researchers show that even a limited nuclear strike could have disastrous global consequences that could cost a billion lives

Researchers develop technique to control and measure electron spin voltage

14 Jul 2017

DIPP to set up India’s first innovation facilitation centre in Punjab

14 Jul 2017

Musk’s Hyperloop comes closer to reality, completes test

13 Jul 2017

It was the first phase of a multi-phase programme which was privately conducted on 12 May at the company’s test track, ‘DevLoop’, in the Nevada Desert

Musk’s Hyperloop comes closer to reality, completes test

13 Jul 2017

It was the first phase of a multi-phase programme which was privately conducted on 12 May at the company’s test track, ‘DevLoop’, in the Nevada Desert

Cosmic 'dust factory' reveals clues to how stars are born

11 Jul 2017

Scientists have discovered a rich inventory of molecules at the centre of an exploded star for the very first time

Ad hoc 'cache hierarchies' make chips much more efficient

11 Jul 2017

Ad hoc 'cache hierarchies' make chips much more efficient

11 Jul 2017

Controlling memory by triggering specific brain waves during sleep

10 Jul 2017