US bets on small nuclear reactors to help fix a huge climate problemAround twelve companies are developing reactors that are a fraction of the size of those at Vogtle, betting that they will be quicker and c...
14 Nov, 2023, 09.33 AM IST
Marine Corps Birthday: When was it founded and a look into historyEvery year on November 10, people in the United States observe the Marine Corps Birthday. The day is celebrated as the birthday of the Unit...
10 Nov, 2023, 11.36 PM 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
Intel gives details on future AI chips as it shifts strategyIntel said its forthcoming “Falcon Shores” chip will have 288 gigabytes of memory and support 8-bit floating point computation.
22 May, 2023, 10.48 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
- 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