'Don't teach children everything...': Actor R Madhavan shares an IIT-Delhi scholar's research on academic achievement and learningR Madhavan shared a video highlighting Sugata Mitra’s 1999 “hole in the wall” experiment, which explored children’s ability to learn indepe...
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Before H.C. Verma wrote Concepts of Physics, Indian JEE aspirants were struggling with one huge problem; the IIT Kanpur professor changed thatBefore H.C. Verma wrote Concepts of Physics: Long before online coaching and AI study tools, IIT Kanpur professor H.C. Verma identified a g...
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Nobel Prize winner to Energy and Semiconductor pioneers: Why top scientists left US and UK for China? Check list of key namesNobel laureate Omar Yaghi will lead an AI research center at Tsinghua University. Several prominent scientists are relocating to China for ...
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Japan’s LOTUS 2026 programme: Who can apply and how 1,000 Indian scholars can benefitJapan has opened applications for the LOTUS Programme 2026, offering 1,000 research positions to Indian Master’s, PhD scholars and research...
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National Supercomputing Mission extended to December 2025National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) has provided researchers from tier II and tier III cities with the chance to carry out research by gi...
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2 Indian-American innovation pioneers inducted into Inventors Hall of FameNational Inventors Hall of Fame, releasing its list of 2018 inductees, said Paulraj's wireless technology has revolutionised broadband wire...
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Knimbus is making e-libraries a virtual reality for collegesKnimbus 3.0 will allow institutes to build and customise their online libraries using content provided by startup
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How a patient changed the way engineering is used in Indian ophthalmologyRichhariya first asked Sangwan about corneal dystrophy, the genetic disease he was suffering from, where unwanted material gets accumulated...
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- High-capacity 'Universal' memory in the offing
Moscow, June 17 (IANS) In what could be a ground-breaking development in the future of Resistive Random Access Memory (ReRAM), researchers ...
18 Jun, 2017, 01.11 PM IST
- High-capacity 'Universal' memory in the offing
Moscow, June 17 (IANS) In what could be a ground-breaking development in the future of Resistive Random Access Memory (ReRAM), researchers ...
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New way to make atom-thin circuits for next-generation gadgetsThe method yields functional structures at a scale large enough to begin thinking about real-world applications.
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739 foreign students banned from UK university science coursesThe students, whose nationalities have not been made public, have been banned under the Academic Technology Approval Scheme
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Here's how studying physics made Elon Musk a better leaderElon Musk went as far as being accepted to a physics Ph.D. program at Stanford University, but dropped out to get in on the internet boom.
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