Technology - general

31 Jul 2010

By By Dhara Tripathi | 30 Jul 2010

29 Jul 2010

For the first time, scientists successfully measure ClOOCl  (a chlorine compound that affects ozone depletion) levels in the ozone layer

16 Jul 2010

An international team of scientists has discovered the gene mutation responsible for a condition in which eye and brain development is severely disrupted in affected infants

13 Jul 2010

10 Jul 2010

The Solar Impulse cruised at a height of 28,000 feet and a top speed of 78 mph, in a night long flight,  in what, according to project coordinators was the longest test flight of a piloted, solar-powered aircraft

07 Jul 2010

02 Jul 2010

19 Jun 2010

By Bill Steigerwald, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | 18 Jun 2010

16 Jun 2010

After seeing the effects of the Valdez spill in Alaska on TV, Costner put in $24 million of his money in 1995 to fund a team of scientists, including his brother Dan Costner, to develop a technology that could deal with huge oil spills

15 Jun 2010

14 Jun 2010

The mission nevertheless has proved enlightening as the spacecraft has shown that the 535-metre asteroid is not a solid body, but rather a lump of rubble resulting from an earlier asteroid collision

09 Jun 2010

08 Jun 2010

A nanoparticle with a palladium core and an iron-platinum shell outperforms commercially available pure-platinum catalysts and lasts longer — a promising advance in fuel-cell technology, developed by chemists at Brown University

08 Jun 2010

A nanoparticle with a palladium core and an iron-platinum shell outperforms commercially available pure-platinum catalysts and lasts longer — a promising advance in fuel-cell technology, developed by chemists at Brown University

08 Jun 2010

A nanoparticle with a palladium core and an iron-platinum shell outperforms commercially available pure-platinum catalysts and lasts longer — a promising advance in fuel-cell technology, developed by chemists at Brown University

05 Jun 2010

By By Robert Sanders, Media Relations, University of California, Berkeley | 26 May 2010

21 May 2010

21 May 2010

Thanks to an interdisciplinary team of researchers, scientists now have a more complete understanding of one of the human body’s most vital structures: the red blood cell.

20 May 2010

A team of researchers from Japan and Michigan Technological University has built a molecular computer using lessons learned from the human brain.

19 May 2010

18 May 2010

14 May 2010

A tiny silicon chip that works a bit like a nose may one day detect dangerous airborne chemicals and alert emergency responders through the cell phone network.