How 'Feluda' will detect COVID-19 in minutes

'This health emergency has brought a lot of people together with the common purpose of getting Feluda to play detective as quickly as possible.''As a scientist, if we can make a small difference in......

The elusive search for truth in media

Is it likely that one of these days, a demand may rise that only truthful endorsement should be made in the media and that if it is discovered that she or he in real life does not use that brand,......

There's no escape from this alarm clock

An Indian scientist has developed an innovative 'hide-and-seek' alarm clock which would force even the laziest person to wake up from sleep.Gauri Nanda, a 25-year-old scientist at Massachusetts......

Twitter wants MIT to make sense of your tweets

Twitter has teamed up with MIT on a $10 million project that will analyse every tweet sent since the micro-blogging site was launched in 2006 in an effort to better understand social networks. The......

Car that can folds itself set to go on sale!

The Hiriko is a folding two-seat urban electric car being develolped by the Hiriko Driving Mobility consortium in the Basque Country. The electric car is the commercial implementation of the......

Orchestrating global symphony in real-time

TablaNet, an online musical collaboration system by Mihir Sarkar, may soon become a rave for percussionists across the globe.Nineteen years ago, Mihir Sarkar had organised a concert in India. He......

Now, get your eyes tested by a cellphone

A team led by an Indian-origin professor has devised a method of using mobile phones for conducting eye tests, a technique it hopes will be useful in places lacking hi-tech eye equipment. The......