Technology - general

A cooperative way to make ammonia

05 Oct 2016

Determining how bacterial nitrogenase works could someday lead to better industrial production of fertilizer

Three British scientists share Physics Nobel

04 Oct 2016

Discoveries by David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz helped illuminate how in some realms matter can exist in strange states, and in doing so helped scientists work with new forms of materials

Uniform 'hairy' nanorods have potential energy, biomedical applications

03 Oct 2016

Researchers report advance in low-cost clean energy generation

03 Oct 2016

Powered for life: self-charging tag tracks fish as long as they swim

27 Sep 2016

FAST: China officially opens world’s largest radio telescope

27 Sep 2016

The $180-million telescope, which dwarfs others of its kind, will be used for observation of pulsars as well as exploration of interstellar molecules and “interstellar communication signals” - which could be sent by extra-terrestrial intelligence

Chinese investors offer to invest $50-million in Indian start-ups

26 Sep 2016

Scientists identify gene behind our sixth sense

24 Sep 2016

Horses can tell you when they want a blanket – and when not

23 Sep 2016

The results strongly indicate that the horses had learnt to communicate their preferences using symbols, the researchers said

Single African migration accounts for all of world’s races

23 Sep 2016

Three separate studies have established for the first time that all non-Africans today trace their ancestry to a single population emerging from Africa between 50,000 and 80,000 years ago

Watching just 15 minutes of TV could hurt kids’ creativity: study

22 Sep 2016

Lightweight, wearable tech efficiently converts body heat to electricity

22 Sep 2016

NASA rubbishes reports that it has changed the Zodiac

21 Sep 2016

Understanding math not tied to sight: study

21 Sep 2016

New theory overcomes a longstanding polymer problem

By By Anne Trafton | MIT News Office | 19 Sep 2016

For the past 100 years, polymer scientists have been stymied in their efforts to predict polymers’ elasticity, because the materials usually have structural flaws at the molecular level, which MIT researchers have now found a way of circumventing