Beneath California's Salton Sea lies 3.4 million tons of lithium, potentially enough to build 375 million electric-vehicle batteriesCalifornia's Salton Sea holds immense lithium reserves, potentially ending foreign dependence for electric vehicle batteries. This discover...
24 Jul, 2026, 05.16 PM IST
China's Moonshot AI chases 'DeepSeek moment' with much-hyped modelChinese startup Moonshot AI released its Kimi K3 large language model on Friday. This new model is generating significant excitement within...
17 Jul, 2026, 12.10 PM IST
Most people never think about roof color, but Berkeley Lab found swapping a dark roof for a reflective "cool roof" cuts a building's annual air-conditioning energy use by 5–20%Dark rooftops absorb sunlight, increasing home temperatures significantly. Reflective cool roofs bounce sunlight back, reducing cooling ene...
13 Jul, 2026, 04.00 PM IST
Millions of Americans seal leaky air ducts with duct tape, but Berkeley Lab tested dozens of sealants and found duct tape was the only one that failed “reliably and often catastrophically,” while foil tape and mastic heldScientists tested sealants and found duct tape fails quickly. Cloth-backed duct tape deteriorated within days under extreme temperature cyc...
13 Jul, 2026, 03.27 PM IST
AI startup Pramaana Labs raises $27 million in seed funding led by Khosla VenturesPramaana Labs, an AI startup, has secured $27 million in seed funding. The company develops technology to ensure AI answers are mathematica...
17 Jun, 2026, 09.30 PM IST
President Biden presents National Medal for Technology & Innovation to Indian-American scientist Ashok GadgilGadgil is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley, who has developed low--cost solutions t...
25 Oct, 2023, 07.41 AM IST
India has the potential to become a world leader in production of electric vehicles: Berkeley ResearchIndia has the potential to become the world leader in electric vehicles production, a research by Berkeley National Laboratory and UCLA sai...
15 Nov, 2022, 10.13 AM IST
India can hold electricity-sector emissions by increasing clean power capacity: ReportA new study recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences from researchers at Berkeley Lab, University of Calif...
30 Mar, 2021, 07.31 AM IST
Sun Microsystems founder Vinod Khosla says curiosity keeps him aliveKhosla also spoke about how science came to be his religion.
27 Mar, 2019, 08.18 AM IST
Gen-next smart solar windows could produce electricityThe next-generation smart windows not only darken automatically when the Sun is too bright but also convert solar energy into electricity.
24 Jan, 2018, 12.42 PM IST
Smart City challenge calls for startups working towards social impactSmart City 4.0, recently launched by the Innovation Acceleration Group at the University of California Berkeley, US, seeks to develop skill...
23 Oct, 2017, 05.11 PM IST
Human-induced climate change worsened 2015 heatwave in IndiaThe research team also found that, despite being close in location and time, the two heat waves in India and Pakistan were "meteorologicall...
19 Dec, 2016, 12.43 PM IST
Galaxy-seeking robots to make 3D map of universe in the offingThe DESI is planned for the Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in the US. ProtoDESI will be installed on the Mayall Telesco...
14 Jun, 2016, 01.40 PM IST
Driverless taxis can help reduce greenhouse gas emissionsA fleet of driverless taxis roaming a city to pick up passengers may not only be cost-effective, it could also greatly reduce per-mile emis...
07 Jul, 2015, 04.38 PM IST
Artificial photosynthesis method turns waste CO2 into fuelsResearchers have developed new system that uses sunlight to convert waste carbon dioxide into valuable chemical products such as biodegrada...
24 Apr, 2015, 05.56 PM IST
Electric cars more useful than thought: StudyThe first study of its kind by scientists shows that the daily travel needs of drivers continue to be met well beyond these levels of batte...
31 Mar, 2015, 07.04 PM IST
- US names Indian IIT-ian Arun Majumdar its new Green Czar
Indian American technocrat Arun Majumdar has been appointed as the Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy in the US Dep...
20 Sep, 2009, 03.01 AM IST