Technology - general
China plans massive space power station
31 Mar 2015
The futuristic power station would convert the generated electricity to microwaves or lasers and transmit it to a collector on earth
Engineers working to pack more laser beams, and data, into fibre optic strands
30 Mar 2015
As digital traffic soars, researchers strive to send multiple laser beams, each with it’s own data stream, through fibre-optic strands that can only handle a single beam today
Researchers develop artificial hand that performs precise movements
28 Mar 2015
An artificial hand developed by engineers from Saarland University in Germany has sensory properties and is capable of performing extremely precise movements
Analysis sees many promising pathways for solar photovoltaic power
By By David L. Chandler | MIT News Office | 28 Mar 2015
New kind of “tandem” solar cell developed
By By David L. Chandler | MIT News Office | 27 Mar 2015
Researchers combine two types of photovoltaic material to make a cell that harnesses more sunlight
Making drinking water safe at the source
By By Rob Jordan | Stanford Woods Institute for the E | 26 Mar 2015
Landmark study proves that magnets can control heat and sound
26 Mar 2015
The study is the first ever to prove that acoustic phonons — the elemental particles that transmit both heat and sound — have magnetic properties
Large Hadron Collider prepares to probe more mysteries of the universe
25 Mar 2015
During the past two years of down-time, the LHC has been upgraded and will run at twice the energy of the experiments that discovered the Higgs boson, the long-hypothesized particle that gives all others mass
CLRI develops ‘green’ technology for leather tanning
23 Mar 2015
The new technology ensures saving of 15 million litres per day of water in the Indian leather sector alone - and an estimated 200 million litres per day if this revolutionary technology is applied globally
Birthdays, Schooling and Crime: What's the Link?
23 Mar 2015
Overexposure to artificial light at night a killer: study
21 Mar 2015
Excessive exposure to artificial rather than natural lighting can cause cancer, diabetes, depression, and other diseases, the US study has found
Magnetic brain stimulation
By By David L. Chandler | MIT News Office | 20 Mar 2015
Sir Venkatraman Ramakrishnan elected president of Britain’s Royal Society
19 Mar 2015
Ramakrishnan, the first Indian-origin scientist to hold the post, studied physics at Baroda and biology in the US before shifting to Britain where he shared the 2009 chemistry Nobel Prize for discovering the precise structure of ribosomes
Robotic fish designed to protect real ones from pollution
17 Mar 2015
Bristling with sensors, the self-navigating robot mimics how real fish swim, monitoring for signs of environmental degradation.