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  Digital University Kerala professor in Stanford varsity’s list of top 2% scientists

  Education | October 26, 2021 13:09 IST

  Six members in the Board of Studies of Digital University Kerala too are on the list of top 2 per cent scientists, it said adding Dr James has featured in two lists prepared by Stanford – Elsevier based on the career-long data and single-year impact

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  Scientists detect light from behind black hole

  Science | July 29, 2021 18:36 IST

  The team at Stanford University noticed an intriguing pattern while watching X-rays flung out into the universe by the supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy 800 million light-years away.

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  UP student secures free pass to Stanford University

  India | June 10, 2021 11:14 IST

  Coming from a poor background where his father toiled as a salesman, struggling to fulfill the basic necessities of the family, Manu is the only child. Manu was able to secure admission to VidyaGyan, where only 250 students are selected out of the approximate 250,000 applicants every year.

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  36 IITians named in world's top 2% scientists' list by Stanford University

  Career | November 14, 2020 19:13 IST

  At least 14 scientists from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - Banaras Hindu University have figured among the top two per cent scientists in a global list compiled by the prestigious Standford University.

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  E-cigarette use may increase heart disease risk: Study

  Science | May 28, 2019 12:04 IST

  The severity of the damage, aspects of which occur even in the absence of nicotine, varies among popular flavours, the researchers said. Cinnamon and menthol were found to be particularly harmful.

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  A Muslim teen gets into Stanford after writing ‘BlackLivesMatter' for 100 Times

  Mouthful | April 05, 2017 18:46 IST

  In an unbelievable incident, a Muslim teen from Princeton, New Jersey successfully made a place in Stanford University with his unusual response to his job application.

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  My work with Digital India will silence my critics: Ankit Fadia

  October 16, 2015 15:45 IST

  New Delhi: Ankit Fadia, one of the brand ambassadors for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "Digital India" campaign, is controversy's child. Yet, the 30-year-old ethical hacker believes that it is not possible to be successful without

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  Bug reveals how popular you are on Facebook

  October 15, 2015 18:05 IST

  New York: A bug that infected Facebook's mobile website let users see view counts for their own and others' posts throughout the social network, The Verge reported.Similar to how Facebook displays the number of views

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  Narendra Modi will be first Indian PM to visit Silicon Valley in last 33 years

  Politics | August 10, 2015 18:25 IST

  Washington: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during his upcoming visit to Silicon Valley in September, will address Indian Diaspora.Prime Minister Modi is likely to  speak at prestigious Stanford University as well although there is official confirmation

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  Indian economy has potential to grow at higher rate: Arun Jaitley

  December 16, 2014 7:53 IST

  New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said India has the potential to grow at a higher rate even at a time when the world economy is going through a critical phase."The world economy is

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  Indian-American scientist appointed as US Science Envoy

  World | December 05, 2014 9:01 IST

  Washington: A top Indian-American scientist from Stanford University has been appointed as one of the Science Envoys of the US.Arun Majumdar, a professor at the prestigious university, along with three others Peter Hotez, Jane Lubchenco

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  A camera, strapped like a watch, flies like a drone, coming soon

  Lifestyle | November 04, 2014 17:38 IST

  New York: Brace up for cool flying selfies as researchers have developed what could be the world's first wearable drone that can fly high to take your photographs.This flying camera called Nixie straps on like

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  Better toilets may not mean better health in India: Study

  World | October 10, 2014 17:16 IST

  Washington: The world's largest sanitation initiative which provided almost 25,000 individuals in rural India with access to toilets did not reduce exposure to fecal pathogens or decrease the occurrence of diarrhoea or child malnutrition, a

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  Indian-origin Stanford professor wins top US award for science

  World | October 05, 2014 9:26 IST

  Washington: A 79-year-old Indian-American Stanford University professor is among 10 innovators to receive US National Medal of Science announced by President Barack Obama for their contribution to the field of science.Pune-graduate and Padma Bhushan recipient

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  15-Minute-Old Newborn Gets Pacemaker For Heart

  World | February 16, 2012 14:34 IST

  San Francisco, Feb 16: A tiny infant became one of the smallest-ever recipients of a pacemaker, undergoing the procedure just 15 minutes after being born, Stanford University announced.A team of doctors at the university's Lucile

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  US Girls Joined At Chest To Be Separated

  World | November 01, 2011 12:18 IST

  Palo Alto, California, Nov 1:  Two-year-old twin girls who are joined at the chest and abdomen were undergoing final preparations Monday for a complex surgery at a California hospital that is meant to separate them.Doctors