Science and Technology

An idle dream for decades, the idea is now gradually inching towards reality. It has been known for some time that it is possible to put up a very ...

‘Yes’ to a new normalIn a ‘public attitude study’ on ‘Science and Technology in the New Normal in India’, conducted recently by the IIT-Madras Alumni ...

Tough cylinder Indian Oil Corporation and IIT-Kharagpur are jointly developing a new material to make cylinders for storing hydrogen, IOC’s Director – ...

To power its economy with pocket-friendly green hydrogen, India need look no further than its farmlands

Now is the time to inject funds into scientific research

You go for, say, an interview. Instead of asking you questions, the interviewers attach small metal discs (electrodes) to your scalp and ask you to ...

Researchers at the GLA University, Mathura, have invented a system for a vehicle to transform waste heat from pollution control systems into electric ...

Advanced ultra-super critical (AUSC) boilers are the holy grail of coal-fired power research, which seeks to enhance efficiency of energy generation ...

Dr Vijay Gahlaut of the Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur, is working on developing a wheat strain that can grow even in high temperatures.

3D printing has a future — but India needs an integrated approach to keep pace with global manufacturing

Researchers at IIT Madras’s ‘Initiative for Biological Systems Engineering’ (IBSE) are poring over millions of data points to see why babies are ...

Four get cryo-EMs Three IITs — of Kanpur, Madras and Bombay — and the Bose Institute, Kolkata, will each get a new ‘cryogenic electron microscope’ ...

You may have read of companies such as Boeing and Virgin Galactic wanting to bring back supersonic (faster than sound) air travel. Sixteen years ago, ...

Scientists at the International Advanced Research Centre For Powder Metallurgy and New Materials, ARCI, have developed a water-repellent transparent ...

Professor Debarati Sen of IIT Kharagpur has developed drones that can be used as flying mobile towers in disaster-hit areas. These 5G-capable Unmanned ...

Many industries, such as textile, dairy and rice, need steam for their processes. The steam is produced in boilers at high pressures (10-25 bars) but ...

A quick look at the fifth such policy since independence

New genome editing tech for crops is safer and more accurate

New technology to cut CO2 emissions from cement production

Research from IIT-Bombay can help in industrial production of biochemicals

From different types of osmoses to new membranes, researchers have come up with ways of drawing water

Cancer spreads in the body due to unchecked growth of diseased cells. But did you know there are some kinds of proteins that help cells, including ...

In a new milestone in the search for better catalysts for making methane from CO2, Dr Pravin Ingole of IIT Delhi has developed a promising one: ...

An IIT-Roorkie incubated start-up called Indigenous Energy Storage Technologies has been given a patent for its invention of electrode materials for ...