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New ovarian cancer treatment developed

Treatment shrinks tumours without causing side effects.

4 Jun 2017 2:26 AM IST

The tools used to make the card are being used to develop cutting-edge techniques for understanding materials on a tiny scale. (Photo: Youtube/National Physical Laboratory)

Behold! the smallest Christmas card

Scientists have created the world's smallest Christmas card that could fit over 200 million cards in a single postage...

25 Dec 2017 3:42 PM IST

The study is the first systemic mapping of brain lesions associated with criminal behaviour -referred to as acquired sociopathy. (Photo: Pixabay)

Now, new system can help machines think like humans

New reservoir computing system uses memristors, requires less space, can be integrated more easily into existing...

25 Dec 2017 8:10 AM IST

Digital marvel: Quantum race gathers pace

Digital marvel: Quantum race gathers pace

Researchers race to develop impenetrable computers with quantum-safe cryptography.

25 Dec 2017 5:59 AM IST

A team led by the University of Washington (UW) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US has for the first time discovered magnetism in the 2D world of monolayers. (representaional image)

Researchers discover 2D magnets formed by a single atomic layer

Scientists have for the first time discovered two-dimensional magnets that are formed by a single layer of atoms.

12 Jun 2017 3:27 PM IST

A European Space Agency artists impression of the debris field in low-Earth orbit (Photo: AFP)

Space debris problem getting worse: scientists

Scientists have sounded the alarm over the problems posed to space missions from orbital junk

19 April 2017 8:08 AM IST

Details from a fingerprint image taken from a distance of 1 meter by the SAVI prototype developed at Rice and Northwestern universities.

New camera to capture distant images without long lens

Raw data from dozens of camera positions is fed to a computer programme that interprets it and constructs a...

17 April 2017 8:05 AM IST

The material could be grafted onto prosthetic limbs to restore temperature sensing in amputees. (Representational Image)

Now, artificial skin can feel heat

New skin can be grafted onto prosthetic limbs to restore temperature sensing.

1 Feb 2017 6:01 AM IST

Gravity signals may play a crucial role in early identification of the occurrence of earthquakes. (Photo: PTI/ File)

Gravity signals to rapidly measure magnitude of big earthquakes

At present, scientists use seismic waves from a rupture to work out the scale of the event.

4 Dec 2017 5:36 PM IST

EWB has also played a significant role in supporting the Digital India initiative, and establishment of eLearning centres.

Weekend work: Engineers without borders

A national group of scientists and engineers is trying to make the country a better place.

8 Feb 2017 7:30 AM IST

An X-ray of a fossilised gas bubble containing 2.4- billion-year-old creatures (photo: AFP)

Fossils may be earliest known multicellular life: study

Fossils discovered in S. Africa are probably the oldest fungi ever found by a margin of 1.2 billion years

25 April 2017 8:07 AM IST

Airglow comes from emissions of different colors of light from chemical reactions in the upper reaches of the atmosphere. (representational image)

Mystery behind -"bright night-" solved

Scientists have solved the mystery behind an unusual glow that appears in the sky after dark.

24 Jun 2017 8:12 AM IST