New `super stretchable` conduction wires for cellphones

Last Updated: Saturday, December 22, 2012, 13:26

New conduction wires that can be stretched up to eight times their original length and used in headphones and phone chargers have been developed.

Flexible and wearable silicon solar-cell fabrics may soon become reality

Last Updated: Saturday, December 8, 2012, 09:38

An international team of chemists, physicists, and engineers has, for the first time, developed a silicon-based optical fiber with solar-cell capabilities that is capable of being scaled up to many meters in length.

DU accuses protesting teachers of `endangering` people

Last Updated: Sunday, November 11, 2012, 00:11

A day after much drama was witnessed at the screening of a satirical film by protesting teachers, Delhi University accused a "handful of teachers" and "misguided students" of drawing power from high tension wires.

Orissa to raise height of electric wires to save elephants

Last Updated: Saturday, May 7, 2011, 12:37

The Orissa government on Saturday decided to spend Rs 20 crore from the Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management funds for raising the height of electric wires passing through elephant corridors.

Trains, electric wires slay Jharkhand jumbos

Last Updated: Friday, April 9, 2010, 10:48

As many as 103 elephants have died in Jharkhand since 2001. Many of the unsuspecting jumbos were run over by fast trains or struck down by high voltage wires even as poachers and villagers also posed a threat.

MP resident arrested with ammonium nitrate, fuse wires

Last Updated: Thursday, November 12, 2009, 21:21

A resident of Madhya Pradesh was on Thursday arrested in Shankargarh area of Allahabad district with over a quintal of ammonium nitrate and fuse wires.

New organic nano-wires may help replace silicon in computer chips

Last Updated: Tuesday, August 18, 2009, 12:54

Organic nano-scale wires may serve as an alternative to silicon in computer chips, according to a collaborative team of Chinese and Danish researchers.