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Carbon soot particles, dust blamed for discolouring Taj Mahal
06 Jan 2015
The Taj Mahal’s iconic marble dome and soaring minarets require regular cleaning to maintain their dazzling appearance, as airborne carbon particles and dust give the gleaming white landmark a brownish cast
Drive-by heat mapping
By By Rob Matheson | MIT News Office | 06 Jan 2015
Thermal-imaging cars, developed by a start-up venture, can quickly track energy leaks in thousands of homes and buildings.
New horizons for self-assembling materials
By By Larry Hardesty | MIT News Office | 05 Jan 2015
3-D-printable materials deform to change surface area, enabling curvature rather than rigid folding
Papers on scientific achievements of Vedic times to be presented at Indian Science Congress
03 Jan 2015
Modi asks scientists to help foster country’s development
03 Jan 2015
PM cited China’s emergence in recent times as the second biggest global economy, which, he said, is in parallel to its rise to the second place in science and technology activities
Eminent scientist Vasant R Gowariker passes away
03 Jan 2015
Gowariker, who started work on satellite technology along with Vikram Sarabhai in 1965, went on to head the ISRO and was also instrumental in the development of the ‘Gowariker model’ for long range weather forecasting
Isro chief Radhakrishnan, computer scientist Radhika Nagpal among Nature’s top 10 scientists
26 Dec 2014
Nature picked Radhakrishnan for successfully leading India’s first interplanetary mission Mangalyaan, while another scientist of Indian origin, Radhika Nagpal, who used biology-inspired robotics to get a swarm of 1,024 robots to assemble and form various shapes, also found a place among the top ten
Scientists locate ‘homing signal’ in the brain, explaining why some people are better navigators
26 Dec 2014
A sense for biosensors
24 Dec 2014
Pakistan becomes associate member of CERN
20 Dec 2014
Big-data analysis reveals gene sharing in mice
19 Dec 2014
Engineers pasteurise eggs in the shell
18 Dec 2014
The invention uses radio frequency (RF) energy to transmit heat through the shell and into the yolk while the egg rotates. Streams of cool water simultaneously flow over the egg to protect the delicate white. Researchers then bathe the egg in hot water to complete the pasteurisation process
Researchers develop novel lithium-sulphur
18 Dec 2014
Stanford team combines logic, memory to build a 'high-rise' chip
17 Dec 2014
Stanford researchers are building layers of logic and memory into skyscraper chips that are smaller, faster, cheaper – and taller
Detecting gases wirelessly and cheaply
By Anne Trafton | MIT News Office | 13 Dec 2014
MIT chemists have devised a new way to wirelessly detect hazardous gases and environmental pollutants, using a simple sensor that can be read by a smartphone
Study shows embryos can learn
12 Dec 2014
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