IIT Delhi-incubated deeptech startup Green Aero secures 1.6 million from pi VenturesThe funds will be used for Green Aero’s R&D efforts, setting up an in-house testing facility, and hiring talent. Plans include commercialis...
09 Jul, 2025, 06.00 AM IST
Beethoven's skull fragments returned to ViennaUS businessman Paul Kaufmann donated the fragments, which he inherited, to the Medical University of Vienna where researchers will probe th...
21 Jul, 2023, 07.58 AM IST
In the race to electrification, the humble bus is in the leadExperts believe that it may take another decade for the global fleet of passenger vehicles to reach 50% EVs.
10 Jun, 2023, 09.35 AM IST
New explanation for Earth's continental crust being low in iron given by studyEarth's continental crust's low iron content relative to oceanic crust made the continents less dense and more buoyant, causing the contine...
06 May, 2023, 04.22 PM IST
Electric vehicle battery startup ONE backed by BMW, Gates-led firmONE, a year-old startup that only recently emerged from stealth mode, is working on a dual battery that combines a structural cell-to-pack ...
18 Oct, 2021, 10.14 AM IST
Electric vehicle battery startup ONE backed by BMW, Gates-led firmInvestors in ONE's Series A round include BMW iVentures, Detroit-based Assembly Ventures and Chicago-based Volta Energy Technologies, which...
18 Oct, 2021, 10.10 AM IST
Lifetime carbon emissions of electric vehicles versus gasoline carsData generated by an Argonne National Laboratory model was analyzed to determine at what point a typical electric vehicle (EV) becomes clea...
29 Jun, 2021, 11.24 AM IST
When do electric vehicles become cleaner than gasoline cars?The American Petroleum Institute, which represents over 600 companies in the oil industry, states on its website: "Multiple studies show th...
29 Jun, 2021, 11.16 AM IST
- Mysterious mummy girl enters US university class
New York, Dec 3 (IANS) A group of students at Northwestern University in the US is studying an intriguing subject -- a rare portrait mummy ...
03 Dec, 2017, 04.42 PM IST
China's low-enriched neutron reactor runs at full capacityThe reactor will be used for testing nuclear instruments, teaching and training purposes, while producing some isotope, the CAEA said, stat...
27 Mar, 2016, 06.49 PM IST
Bridgmanite identified as Earth's most abundant mineralSo the team decided to try a new tactic: non-destructive micro-focused X-rays for diffraction analysis and novel fast-readout area-detector...
14 Dec, 2014, 01.45 PM IST
China wins fastest supercomputer crown for 4th timeTianhe-2, developed by China's National University of Defence Technology, can operate at 33.86 petaflops per second (Pflop/s), the equivale...
17 Nov, 2014, 10.45 PM IST
Catalyst converts bio-diesel waste into valuable chemicals"We found that the gold in our catalysts helps stabilise the palladium and prevents it from degrading."
27 Jun, 2014, 07.20 PM IST
India's sulphur dioxide emissions on the rise: NasaResearchers have drafted a map that depicts sulphur dioxide concentrations in 2011-12 and 2005, and the relative size of power plants in In...
29 Dec, 2013, 12.39 PM IST
University of Chicago to open centre in DelhiThe University of Chicago will open a new academic centre in Delhi next Spring to enhance collaboration among scholars and students from In...
29 Oct, 2013, 02.09 AM IST
Indian-origin researcher Arjun Raj features among 10 most promising scientists in the worldThe young scientist Arjun Raj heads a 10-member team at Raj Labs on the University of Pennsylvania campus. Set up in 2010 and funded by the...
05 Oct, 2013, 01.33 PM IST
- MIRA: World's fastest supercomputer
The world's fastest supercomputer is being built in the US. If all Americans, that is 300-plus million people, do one calculation per secon...
01 May, 2011, 01.49 AM IST