The blackest black is here! World's darkest material now accessible in spray-on form
Vantablack achieves its supreme blackness through millions of carbon nanotubes.
Apr 06, 2017, 23:16 PM IST
This newly-developed 'Iron Man suit' lets you hover in air!
The futuristic ensemble consists of three sets of miniature jet engines attached to the arms and the back.
Apr 06, 2017, 16:05 PM IST
Sugarcane may be used to power future cars
The dual-purpose bioenergy crops are predicted to be more than five times more profitable per acre than soybeans and two times more profitable than corn.
Apr 05, 2017, 13:28 PM IST
Star Wars 'superlaser' comes closer to reality!
The key to the high-powered beam is placing an ultra-pure diamond crystal at the point of convergence.
Apr 05, 2017, 00:32 AM IST
NASA, Kennedy tie up to help develop autonmous cars
DOT selected the Central Florida partnership as one of 10 proving ground pilot sites around the country to encourage testing and communicating information about automated vehicle technologies.
Apr 05, 2017, 00:27 AM IST
Letter penned by Albert Einstein in 1953 auctioned for USD 53,503!
The famous physicist also wrote an opening page that says one should expect to measure a potential difference, a voltage, whose level depends on the distance from the Earth's surface.
Apr 04, 2017, 20:13 PM IST
New graphene based electrode to boost solar power
The "groundbreaking" prototype created by researchers from RMIT University in Australia could be the answer to the storage challenge still holding solar back as a total energy solution.
Apr 02, 2017, 16:20 PM IST
Grassoline' to power future aircraft developed
This lactic acid can serve as an intermediate chemical to produce other compounds such as biodegradable plastics (PLA) or fuels.
Apr 02, 2017, 12:43 PM IST
Astronomers discover Neptune-sized 'lost' planet
The new planet, Kepler-150 f, was overlooked for several years, according to researchers at the Yale University in the US.
Mar 31, 2017, 18:14 PM IST
Scientists decode taste of lager beer from World War I era
Uncovered in 2015 during the reconstruction of an old brewery in Czech Republic, the three lager beers apparently were produced during the World War I era and stored in a large cold cellar at the brewery where they remained to gather dust.
Mar 30, 2017, 12:16 PM IST
Japanese scientist aims energy burst from `typhoon turbine`
Shimizu`s egg-beater shaped creation -- it has three cylinders and a central rod -- responds to wind coming from any direction and doesn`t use a propeller to spin.
Mar 29, 2017, 11:04 AM IST
Paleontologists identify 150 dinosaur tracks in Australia!
The newly-identified 150 tracks are older than most dinosaur fossils unearthed in the eastern part of Australia and which are thought to be between 90 and 115 million years old.
Mar 27, 2017, 22:33 PM IST
When did human cannibalism originate? Scientists find oldest evidence!
Researchers eventually discovered 30 bones belonging to three individuals: a robust adult, a gracile adult and an infant, 'Live Science' reported.
Mar 26, 2017, 22:58 PM IST
Humans, smartphones often fail to detect morph photos
Researchers at the University of York in Britain investigated what the success rate would be like if two faces were morphed together to create a "new" face.
Four-legged robot can change gait with speed
The advance may lead to a wide range of applications such as adaptive legged robots working in disaster areas, user-friendly legged entertainment robots and automatic motion-creation algorithms for computer graphics animation.
Mar 26, 2017, 17:05 PM IST
Sounds Unbelievable but this quadruped robot can change steps with speed
Until now, the manner in which changing speeds cause quadrupeds to change walking, trotting and galloping was poorly understood, the researchers said in their paper.
Mar 26, 2017, 13:18 PM IST
Solar-powered 'e-skin' may help amputees regain sense of touch
Researchers from University of Glasgow in the UK have for the first time integrated power-generating photovoltaic cells into the electronic skin made of graphene.
Mar 23, 2017, 17:14 PM IST
Why are jokes funny? Let quantum theory explain!
For decades, researchers from a range of different fields have tried to explain the phenomenon of humour and what happens on a cognitive level in the moment when we "get the joke".
Mar 19, 2017, 19:19 PM IST
Scientists discover five new sub-atomic particles
The exceptionality of this discovery is that observing five new states all at once is a rather unique event, researchers said.
Mar 19, 2017, 13:52 PM IST
Do you know human skull hole evolved with walking on two legs? - Read
Compared with other primates, the large hole at the base of the human skull where the spinal cord passes through, known as the foramen magnum, is shifted forward.
Mar 19, 2017, 12:48 PM IST
