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Siemens battery trains are fit for a King!
19 Dec 2025
Seven Mireo Plus B trains for Midtjyske Jernbaner to enter passenger service First fleet of Mireo Plus B battery-powered trains outside ...
Siemens honors pioneering inventors for the 30th time
18 Dec 2025
This year, for the 30th time, Siemens is awarding the title “Inventor of the Year” to outstanding researchers working in Germany, the United States ...
Siemens unveils lineup for CES 2026 keynote
18 Dec 2025
President and CEO of Siemens AG, Roland Busch, will welcome to the stage leaders from NVIDIA, Microsoft, PepsiCo and Commonwealth Fusion Systems ...
VinSpeed and Siemens Sign Comprehensive Cooperation Agreements for High-Speed Rail Development in Vietnam
17 Dec 2025
Siemens Mobility to design and deliver Velaro Novo high-speed trains, rail infrastructure, and services as a turnkey project for Vietnam’s transforma ...
Rock Rail and Siemens to Deliver 61 Innovative Battery-Powered Trains for the Northern Westphalia Network
16 Dec 2025
The Zweckverband Nahverkehr Westfalen-Lippe (NWL) orders 61 climate-friendly Mireo Plus B trains from Siemens ...
Siemens and nVent to release joint reference architecture purpose-built for NVIDIA AI data centers
15 Dec 2025
Siemens and nVent are collaborating to develop a liquid cooling and power reference architecture, purpose-built for hyperscale AI workloads.
Siemens, Equans and Infrabel complete Belgium's ETCS Level 2 rollout – nationwide rail modernization achieved
15 Dec 2025
Nationwide rollout of state-of-the-art ETCS taking Belgian railways to the highest European standards of efficiency and interoperability ...
Siemens and GlobalFoundries collaborate to deploy AI-driven manufacturing to strengthen global semiconductor supply
11 Dec 2025
Siemens and GlobalFoundries (GF) have entered a new strategic collaboration to leverage each company’s complementary AI-based capabilities to enhance ...
Siemens boosts grid availability with comprehensive transparency
11 Dec 2025
Siemens innovative electrification hardware and software will bring a new level of transparency to the low-voltage grid of Swiss power utility IBC Ener ...
Siemens study results redefine standards for safety, efficiency and flexibility in life sciences labs
11 Dec 2025
Siemens has unveiled the results of a comprehensive and independent study on laboratory ventilation in the area of life sciences. The study was conduct ...
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By Kiron Kasbekar | 26 Mar 2025
You probably already knew that the world’s VIPs move around in cars with bullet-proof glass windscreen and windows. But did you know that ‘bulletproof glass’ is not really bulletproof?
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By Kiron Kasbekar | 20 Mar 2025
This material, which was first developed in China, not Germany, and is an alloy of copper, nickel and zinc, has lost its sheen in home uses, but finds favor in electrical engineering.
Pioneers – the Wrights and Glenn Curtiss launched the aircraft industry
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
First Orville and Wilbur Wright flew their plane, the ‘Wright Flyer’, from near a small town called Kitty Hawk. Then Glenn Curtiss built planes with a very different system of controls, which has lasted until now.
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By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
From chains and sprockets to direct drives—If someone asked you what aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles, how would you respond?
Radar’s ancestors: From sound mirrors to modern detection technology
By Kiron Kasbekar | 11 Mar 2025
Radar has become a well-settled technology today, especially in the field of navigation.
Nokia Bell Labs: innovations in communication, computing, technology
By Omar Almeida | 08 Mar 2025
Bell Laboratories, or Bell labs, which has now become Nokia Bell Labs, is one of the most renowned research and development organizations in the history of science and technology.
Company story – Quaker Oats
By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.
