
Early work on for safe replacement of plastics
Small steps point to a completely new science in dealing with the plastics problem.
Small steps point to a completely new science in dealing with the plastics problem.
Moon will likely be the base for future interplanetary missions. A presence there is of strategic importance.
Landing softly on the moon is a complex task. Only 37% of such attempts have been successful, but these statistics are deceptive.
The earth is expected to warm up somewhere between 2.6 degree and 8.5 degree Celsius over the century.
Experts feel focus on economic growth stimulated by investments in R&D may help it move higher on GII ranking.
Isro had to abort Chandrayaan-2 due to drop in pressure in one of the tanks of the upper stage of the rocket.
ISRO works with more than 400 companies in the country, with businesses ranging from under Rs 1 crore to Rs 200 crore a year.
Chandrayaan 2 will be testing some technologies for the first time, including mineral and water prospecting.
Roughly 60% of the operating expenses of a ship are in fuel costs, with a large ship burning 50 tonnes of oil per day.
Now, more of India Inc should be a catalyst for social development in India.
Infosys co-founder NR Narayana Murthy ruffled a few feathers in the academic community last week when he told students and faculty at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru that no invention, technology or...
Close watchers of the global energy landscape would have noticed two stories in The New York Times this week. One was about the falling prices of renewable energy to the point of becoming cheaper than...
On November 6, the United States Patent Office published an application for a patent that made a disarming claim: that its inventor has a small reactor device that produces more heat than is put in,...
Accidents are common, but a rocket accident is a spectacularly eerie event, especially if a human is on board. One such accident took place last week, when a spaceship from Virgin Galactic blew up high...
The Ebola virus is a scary thing, as it kills 60-90% of the people it infects. This makes it the most dangerous virus in the world, along with its cousin Marburg virus. There are no...
Advances in battery technology have powered a new age of devices, but their lack of advance has also checked the progress of several other devices. Despite their considerable utility, batteries suffer from two major problems:...
Measured by any yardstick, Shuji Nakamura is an extraordinary engineer. He shared this year’s Nobel Prize for Physics with two other Japanese scientists for inventing the blue LED, without which white LEDs are not possible....
Early this week, British journal Nature published a paper on the Asian monsoon with a surprising discovery: the monsoon was active around 40 million years ago. This was at least 15 million years earlier than...
The journal Nature has this week published a comment on how China must continue the momentum it has recently generated to protect its environment. Since the Chinese policy changes have received almost no attention in...
Genetic testing can throw up red herrings Two days ago,The New York Times ran a story on genetic testing written by Keira Peikoff, supposedly a student of bioethics at Columbia University. She had done tests...
Instead of converting sunlight into electricity, why not use the sun to light up buildings? If you want to use the sun to light up buildings, why waste energy by first converting sunlight into electricity?...
In the press conference that followed soon after the Mars orbiter launch, a foreign journalist asked what has now become a routine question: why should India send a mission to Mars when millions are in...
Peak oil, defined as the time when oil production is less than the demand, is an idea that has fuelled many energy policies. Backers of the fossil fuel economy sometimes worry about peak oil, but...
The week following Nobel Prizes is a good time to analyse Indian science. Specifically, it is a good time to ask yet again why an Indian hasn’t won — since CV Raman — a Nobel...
The carbon budget mentioned in the IPCC report will generate heated debate On Friday, Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change released a new report that tried to explain the physical basis...
Over the last decade, biological research has thrown up so many surprises that conventional medical wisdom is turned repeatedly on its head. One such instance happened last week, when the French National Institute of Health...
Emilie Snell-Rood , an evolutionary biologist at the University of Minnesota, last week published the results of a study that looked at the sizes of mammal brains — in 10 species of animals — over...
When you write the history of the automobile 100 years from now, Tesla CEO Elon Musk might be seen as one its greatest revolutionaries. Musk mixes his keen understanding of science and business — he...
Should you go vegan? Is fish good? Is red meat that bad? It’s not so simple Cleveland Clinic, consistently rated by many doctors as among the top hospitals in the world, published a paper in...
Isolating something, even a tiny atom, from all outside influences is a seemingly- impossible task. But some experimental physicists are hard at work trying to make these atoms obey their commands. You could sample it...
By the end of this week, the South West monsoon would have hit Indian shores. During a period of economic crisis, it would be one of the few welcome developments, although few people would look...
Three days ago, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) formed a non-profit partnership, called edX, to offer free online courses. MIT had been putting videos of entire courses online for some time,...
At long last, after several decades of obsession with teamwork and collaboration, scientific and public attention is turning the other way. A series of books, research papers and essays in leading publications now talk about...
It is not often that you see a top government official criticising the government. Yet this was precisely what the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) secretary M.K.Bhan did at the Bangalore Bio yesterday, although he couched...
Indian science had shown great promise in the first half of the twentieth century. C V Raman had won the Nobel Prize, and India had produced other equally eminent scientists like S N Bose, Meghnad...
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