Robots Will Make Leeds The First Self-Repairing City

The idea is to create a city that behaves almost like a living organism,? said Raul Fuentes, a researcher at the School of Civil Engineering at Leeds University, who is wor...

Your Body Is Made Of Hydrogel, And Soon Robots Could Be Too

Researchers at MIT have detailed a new method to create synthetic hydrogels—polymer networks infiltrated with water—that stick to non-porous surfaces such as gl...

How South Korea Imagines The Future Of Cars

Visitors travelling along the vast network of roads at Kia and Hyundai’s Namyang R&D centre are told not to take pictures. The facility, a two-and-a-half-hour dri...

Sushant Singh Rajput Joins The Charity Bandwagon

Now the latest news is that upcoming actor Sushant Singh Rajput, who has just found success with movies like PK and KAI PO CHE! has decided to help deserving students who d...

A New Supermaterial Lets This Artificial Heart Pump Like The Real Thing

It’s been made by material science engineers from Cornell University, who say their foamy cardiovascular replica could have the potential to stand in as a replacement...

A New Supermaterial Lets This Artificial Heart Pump Like The Real Thing

It’s been made by material science engineers from Cornell University, who say their foamy cardiovascular replica could have the potential to stand in as a replacement...

Apathy, Waste And The Rhetoric Of Concern

Rafi Nagar, Deonar, Mumbai
April 2012

The auto-rickshaw stopped at the corner of the narrow road. A large mound of garbag...