Technology - general

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

Why strength depends on more than muscle

10 Jul 2017

Learning with music helps boost changes brain structure: study

08 Jul 2017

Move over kerosene, solar lamps – GravityLight is here

By By Jagdeep Worah | 08 Jul 2017

A gravity-powered lamp designed for use in developing nations as a replacement for kerosene lamps, combines kinetic and potential energy — it uses a bag filled with a weight attached to a cord, which slowly descends similar to the weight drive in a cuckoo clock. By Jagdeep Worah