Bengaluru water crisis: Emergency forces metropolis residents to seek alternatives

Many migrant techies in India’s Silicon Valley demand Work From Home; many considering buying property drop plans

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Falling silicon prices shakes up solar manufacturing industry

What will prevail? Crystalline PV or thin-film

As the world heats up, solar panels will degrade faster – especially in hot, humid areas. What can we do?

We’ll need to incorporate new ways of cooling panels and improve the materials used. We also need to improve manufacturing processes and …

Silicon Valley Bank biggest US lender to fail since 2008 financial crisis — a finance expert explains the impact

Investment losses, coupled with the withdrawals, were so large that regulators had no choice but to step in to shut the bank down to protect …

MIT scientists built biggest-ever carbon nanotube computer chip

The carbon nanotubes can conduct electricity much faster, are 10 times more energy-efficient and could also be seen as a greener option compared …

Siloxanes: Harmless chemicals or ubiquitous hazards?

Our toothpastes, moisturisers and deodorants on one hand and burgers and fries on the other – have one thing in common: They are all …

This new photonic chip may power 5G

It can also find applications in satellite communication, RADARs, sensing and medical imaging equipment

China to dominate 95% of solar panel supply chain  

The country’s global hegemony is a problem because of shortage of materials like polysilicon and silver

Silicon Valley wants to read your mind. Here's why you should be worried

Mind-reading systems — such as Facebook's brainwave-reading device and Neuralink’s brain implants — can affect our privacy, …

New discovery paves way for ‘silicon of the future’

Researchers placed 2 ultra-thin materials on top of each other to get a new material with hybrid properties

Centre considering fund to protect domestic solar industry

Solar mission mandate to promote domestic crystalline silicon technology fails to achieve desired result

Assembly elections may further delay solar mission phase 2

Union Cabinet yet to approve plan; model code of conduct may be announced anytime in states like Rajasthan, making launch difficult

Cabinet clears phase two of solar mission

Lack of clarity on domestic content and procedural hitches delayed the launch by over six months

Solar mission phase II may reign in import of thinfilms

Earlier mandate of domestic content requirement only for crystalline silicon technology led to most developers importing cheaper thinfilm solar panels

Sakri solar power plant may not be shifted after all

Cost escalation made Maharashtra's power generation company reconsider present site in Dhule district 

New guidelines for national solar mission power projects

Reverse bidding retained, small changes like use of domestic content raises technology concerns

‘Low solar energy tariff bids are sustainable’

The second batch of bidding for photovoltaic projects totalling 350 MW capacity in December under the national solar mission witnessed …