The Flying Car can drive, fly, and automatically transform between the two in 60 seconds, could be on the road and in the skies as early as 2011.
Pioneering Indian American biochemist Har Gobind Khorana, who won the 1968 Nobel Prize for medicine, has died of natural causes in Concord, Massachusetts. Khorana, 89, who was Massachusetts Institute of Technology 's Alfred P Sloan Professor of Biology and Chemistry emeritus, died earlier this week. He won the Nobel Prize in 1968, sharing it with two others, for unravelling the nucleotide sequence of RNA and deciphering the genetic code.
Meet Sayamindu Dasgupta!
'I don't feel like going back to India, to the old Delhi that I grew up in. Because the place doesn't exist anymore.'
Indian-origin CEO of Datawind and the maker of India's low-cost tablet Aakash Suneet Singh Tuli and Massachusettes Institute of Technology professor Anant Agarwal have been named by Forbes magazine among the 15 "classroom revolutionaries" who are using innovative technologies to reinvent education for students and teachers globally.
Dr Sangeeta N Bhatia, director, Laboratory for Multiscale Regenerative Technologies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been chosen to the newest class of the prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are working on a new system through which the entire surface area of a building's windows could be used to generate electricity, without interfering with the ability to see through them.
Irrespective of what the future may have in store, the year 2018 has ushered humanity towards an era of next generation technology, demonstrating that there is no looking back in scientific innovations.
The two-day conference begining March 8 is being held in India for the second year in succession in association with CyberMedia.
A team of researchers, including a group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has developed what is called a "cocktail" of extremely tiny particles that work in concert in the bloodstream to locate, stick and kill cancerous tumors.
An IIT Chennai and Stanford University alumnus, Agarwal will assume his new role on July 1.
Meet Sudhanshu Mishra, 17-year-old who turned rejection to his advantage.
Newly minted American engineers are going into finance because tech jobs have been offshored.
Why Indian cities must leverage their universities.
Yale's talks with the HRD ministry involve mentoring all 14 universities through its leadership programme.
A team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology claims its superfast camera can show a bullet-shaped pulse of light travelling from one end of a laboratory flask to another in a fraction of a second, the British media said.
Ten young under-40 innovators and entrepreneurs of South Asian origin will be given the Global Indus Technovators Awards at a ceremony at MIT on Monday.
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United States President Barack Obama has named three Indian American scientists among 96 researchers as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers.
American scientists claim to have developed a technology that would allow conversion of waste heat into electricity efficiently.
The new online education platform 'EdX' would be overseen by a Cambridge-based not-for-profit organization and be owned and governed equally by the two universities.
The confirmation makes Suresh one of the highest-ranking Indian-Americans ever to serve in an administration.
Steel-making results in vast amounts of carbon, and belching flame and smoke. But a new process developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers could change all that.
For the 'most promising and exciting' innovations and research in the United States, six Indian-American scientists under the age of 35 will be awarded by Technology Review 35, the prominent tech journal of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
MIT is trying to find out what happens to used electronic devices after they are disposed.
Social entrepreneur Dr Bhagwati P Agrawal, founder and executive director of the nonprofit Sustainable Innovations, has received the $ 100,000 Lemelson-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Award for Sustainability.
Frenchman, 2 Americans win Nobel Chemistry prize
The QS World Rankings lists the best educational institutes in the world.
Mumbai shouldn't be the Shanghai of 2006. Just having skyscrapers is not going to matter, says MIT don Yasheng Huang.
Brushing aside allegations by Massachusetts Institute of Technology that it withdrew from a research project in India due to differences with him, Information and Technology Minister Arun Shourie.
The chief executive officer of Shahnaz Herbals was invited to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management to speak about her business.
Police are hunting in Watertown, 10-km from Boston, for someone they believe is the white-hatted "suspect number two" in the Marathon bombings, after a police officer was shot dead last night on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus.
Das had been with SAP for over eight years.
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