Technology / Features

Clothes that clean themselves!

When it comes to stain-free clothes, it has always been a tussle with chemicals, detergents and equipment. Researchers experiment with nano-crystals that clean and do away with stains once the fabric is exposed to sunlight.

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A garage and a gallery

Luscious Garage, almost as the name suggests, is not your ordinary neighbourhood car garage. Nestled in downtown San Francisco, home to a very high concentration of hybrid cars, this is…

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Rhineside Story

The Rhine was dismissed as the “Sewer of Europe” in the 1970s, but today it is on the road to recovery. The story of rejuvenation can be a lesson for India where the Ganga Action Plan has run into troubled waters, reports Gunvanthi Balaram from Koblenz, Germany, and Basel, Switzerland.

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