How electricity-free cooling could power India’s next green tech revolutionIndia faces record heat, increasing electricity demand. A new electricity-free cooling technology uses reflective coatings to reduce temper...
29 Oct, 2025, 05.58 PM IST
Time to use different sunscreen as temperatures reach record highs; Here's whyWith world temperatures reaching record highs this summer, you may want to reconsider which sunscreen you are using, experts say. Sunscreen...
17 Aug, 2023, 06.13 PM IST
View: The menace that plastics in our waters pose to all life should not worry us on Earth Day aloneThe serious menace of plastics should not worry us one day a year alone, today on Earth Day. It should make us genuinely concerned about th...
21 Apr, 2023, 10.41 PM IST
IIT Guwahati, in collaboration with Imperial College London, develops nanoparticle ‘meta-grid’Meta-grid' or ‘metamaterial grid’ is a specifically patterned array (grid) of nanoparticles acting as metamaterials, capable of exhibiting ...
07 Aug, 2020, 05.27 PM IST
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...
29 Jan, 2018, 03.35 PM IST
Microchip can diagnose diabetesStanford researchers recently published work on a small microchip they've developed that scans for diabetes in a fraction of the time of cu...
20 Jul, 2017, 03.04 PM IST
- Now you can 3D print glass
London, April 23 (IANS) A team of engineers has developed a process by which it is now possible to 3D print complex forms of glass.
23 Apr, 2017, 10.20 AM IST
United Spirits collaborating with IITians, research scholars to improve quality of productsUSL also relaunched core brands McDowell's No 1, Bagpiper and Signature, which compete with Pernod Ricard's Royal Stag, Imperial Blue and B...
18 Mar, 2017, 12.37 AM IST
IIT Kharagpur team develops nanostructure surface that self cleansBhandaru’s research is especially relevant in a country like India where dust and dirt often tend to be oily in nature and gets accumulated...
27 Jan, 2017, 01.10 AM IST
'Sweet' solution to kill bacteria in drinking water developedDipTreat may have an impact on the global health scenario, from the far north of Canada to the remote villages of India, and around the wor...
15 Nov, 2016, 12.47 PM IST
- Researchers find 'sweet' solution to purify contaminated water
Toronto, Nov 15 (IANS) Indian-origin researchers at York University in Toronto have developed a solution for water treatment that uses only...
15 Nov, 2016, 11.10 AM IST
Stanford University scientists develop computer that operates on water dropletsThe presence or absence of a droplet represents the 1s and 0s of binary code, and the clock ensures that all the droplets move in perfect s...
10 Jun, 2015, 01.19 PM IST
Computer that operates on water droplets developedThe computer is nearly a decade in the making, incubated from an idea that struck Manu Prakash, an assistant professor of bioengineering at...
10 Jun, 2015, 01.16 PM IST
Thermometer-like device could diagnose heart attacks, says studyThe simple device could make diagnosing heart attacks easier in remote or low-income locations which do not have access to equipment.
07 May, 2015, 01.44 PM IST
New self-cleaning paint for cars and clothingSelf-cleaning surfaces work by being extremely repellent to water but often stop working when they are damaged or exposed to oil.
11 Mar, 2015, 04.01 PM IST