When asked to imagine the future of transportation, most might draw a car of the future, perhaps solar powered and autonomously driven. For a select few the way we’ll move ourselves across the world tomorrow is in […]
NEW DELHI: Indian scientists have developed a sensor-based ‘Electronic Nose’ for sniffing out variety of gases at pulp and paper mill industries and environmental monitoring at other sensitive locations. The gases, emitted by these industries […]
Five teenage girl students from Bengaluru won the Technovation challenge at a global pitch event at San Francisco city in the US. Sanjana Vasanth, N. Anupama, Mahima Mehendale, Swasthi P. Rao and B. Navyashree, all […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): LG’s display subsidiary has announced that it is bringing drastically thinner, lighter touchscreens for notebooks later this year. According to the engadget.com, with full HD (1080p) resolution, the Advanced In-Cell Touch (AIT) screens […]
LONDON (TIP): Researchers have developed a smart sensor chip that can detect prostate cancer more accurately and efficiently than current tests which rely heavily on antibodies. The sensor chip, able to pick up on subtle […]
LONDON: An Indian scientist, who suffered from malaria as a child, is among a group of top international scientists which has identified a key protein that if targeted stops the disease, paving the way for new […]
MUMBAI (TIP): The Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft has confirmed the presence of methane on Pluto, Nasa stated on July 1. “The infrared spectrometer on Nasa’s spacecraft has detected frozen methane on Pluto’s surface,” the statement […]
Sometime this summer, a United Airlines flight will take off from Los Angeles International Airport bound for San Francisco using fuel generated from farm waste and oils derived from animal fats. For passengers, little will be […]
LONDON (TIP): The world’s first human trial of artificial blood grown in a lab from stem cells is set to take place in the UK by 2017. The UK’s NHS (National Health Service) Blood and […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): US defence scientists are planning to use genetically engineered algae, bacteria and plants to radically transform the climate of Mars and terraform it into an Earth-like planet. Scientists from Defense Advanced Research Projects […]
According to new research led by Indian American Dr. Shivani Patel of the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia – Half of heart disease deaths in the United States are caused […]
Purdue University researchers, including an Indian American, have found molecules that shut down the activity of an enzyme essential to the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome virus replication. The virus is in the international spotlight again […]
If you’ve ever taken the subway in a major city or have gotten lost in a large travel terminal like Grand Central, you probably understand how frustrating it can be to find the exit that […]
An international team of researchers, including an Indian American, have found a blood test where with just a drop of blood doctors may one day be able to detect pancreatic cancer in its early stages, before it has […]
Scientists led by Indian-American Neal Devaraj have designed an artificial cell membrane that can sustain continuous growth as a living cell. Devraj who is a professor at the University of California in San Diego said; […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Facebook announced that it has been using a new security tool to help detect and remove malicious software for users of the world’s biggest social network. Facebook said it was working with Kaspersky […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): New images of Ceres from Nasa’s Dawn spacecraft has provided more visible images of mysterious bright spots and also revealed a pyramid-shaped peak towering over a relatively flat landscape. Dawn has been studying […]
LOS ANGELES (TIP): Researchers have taken inspiration from the cockroach to create a robot that can use its body shape to manoeuvre through a densely cluttered environment. Fitted with the characteristic rounded shell of the […]
LONDON (TIP): Researchers have developed a new application that generates traffic information of cities and roads by detecting the Bluetooth device boarded on vehicles. The main goal of this system, developed by researchers from Universidad […]
NEW YORK (TIP): In a clue to possibility of life below the surface of Mars today, an international team of researchers has discovered traces of methane in Martian meteorites. For the study, the researchers examined […]
AHMEDABAD (TIP): Isro has said it will provide navigational support to the country’s railways through ‘Gagan’ (GPS-aided geo-augmented navigation) system. “Isro will provide satellite-generated information to the railways through space technology-based tools that will provide […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Researchers have created the world’s thinnest light bulb using graphene, an atomically thin and perfectly crystalline form of carbon, as a filament. Led by Young Duck Kim, a postdoctoral research scientist in James […]
MUMBAI (TIP): In a significant discovery, glass has been found on Mars, throwing up the possibility of past life on the Red Planet, Nasa announced on Tuesday. The breakthrough was attained by Nasa’s Mars Reconnaissance […]
MOSCOW (TIP): Researchers have developed a highly sensitive nanomechanical sensor that can detect cancerous tumours as well as viral disease markers for HIV, hepatitis and herpes. Researchers from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Even the researchers involved in the project describe it as “verging on science fiction”. A team of British scientists has produced aircraft wings that can fix themselves after being damaged, suggesting that […]
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