Technology - general
Seventh-grader Gitanjali Rao is America's `Top Young Scientist’
20 Oct 2017
Gitanjali Rao has been honoured for inventing a quick, low-cost test to detect lead-contaminated water, a problem that was haunting authorities since the water contamination scandal in Flint, Michigan in 2014-15
New material for digital memories of the future
20 Oct 2017
New material for digital memories of the future
20 Oct 2017
A mission to Mars could make its own oxygen thanks to plasma technology
20 Oct 2017
Mars, with its 96 per cent carbon dioxide atmosphere, has nearly ideal conditions for creating oxygen from CO2 through a process known as decomposition
Flexible 'skin' can help robots, prosthetics perform everyday tasks by sensing shear force
18 Oct 2017
Toward efficient high-pressure desalination
17 Oct 2017
Finally! A solution to office thermostat wars
14 Oct 2017
'Air-breathing' battery could cut costs of renewable energy storage
13 Oct 2017
MIT Researchers have developed an ''air-breathing'' battery that could store electricity for four months, for about a fifth the cost of current technologies, with minimal location restraints and zero emissions
Ageing slows perception of falls
11 Oct 2017
Bacteria self-organize to build working sensors
10 Oct 2017
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