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Jul 27, 2022 03:43 PM ISTGujarat govt announces Semiconductor Policy, offers incentives for investment in sector
Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel unveiled the 'Gujarat Semiconductor Policy’, will remain in force till 2027, state Science and Technology Minister Jitu Vaghani said in a statement.
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Jul 24, 2022 06:41 AM IST Depression is probably not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain – new study
If you’re taking antidepressants, it’s very important you don’t stop doing so without speaking to your doctor first. But people need all this information to make informed decisions.
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Jul 23, 2022 06:03 PM IST Tech Mahindra, Mahindra University to set up lab for Metaverse, quantum computing
In order to establish a new "Makers Lab" for research and development in quantum computing, explainable artificial intelligence, and the Metaverse,Tech Mahindra and Mahindra University have signed a memorandum of understanding.
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Jul 17, 2022 11:01 AM IST 6 ways governments drive innovation and how they can help post-pandemic resilience
Policymakers and leaders in science and industry are pinning their hopes on further innovation to drive economic recovery.
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Jul 15, 2022 09:59 PM IST US, Russian astronauts will ride each other's rockets again
U.S. astronaut Frank Rubio will launch to the space station from Kazakhstan with two Russians in September. That same month, Russian cosmonaut, Anna Kikina, will join two Americans and one Japanese aboard a SpaceX rocket flying from Florida.
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Jul 12, 2022 09:17 PM IST NASA's new telescope shows star death, dancing galaxies
Webb's use of the infrared light spectrum allows the telescope to see through the cosmic dust and see light from faraway light from the corners of the universe
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Jul 09, 2022 11:18 AM IST Storyboard18 | Bookstrapping: The Man Who Bent Light by Narinder Singh Kapany
The fusion of ‘science as a universal need’ and ‘religion as a universal truth but private practice’ emerges beautifully from this book. Bookstrapping Rating: 3.5 stars
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Jul 05, 2022 03:04 PM IST JNCASR researchers discover 'new material' that can convert infrared light into renewable energy
The material can emit, detect, and modulate infrared light with high efficiency making it useful for "solar and thermal energy harvesting and for optical communication devices", the government said.
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Jun 26, 2022 10:06 PM IST Dead Roaches That Ate Moon Dust Went Up for Auction. Then NASA Objected
A few German cockroaches that had been fed the lunar diet ended up in the laboratory of Marion Brooks, an entomologist at the University of Minnesota. She found no evidence that the moon dust was toxic to the cockroaches, according to an article in The Star Tribune of Minneapolis from Oct. 6, 1969.
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Jun 24, 2022 12:29 PM IST Startup in Bengal develops a device to produce oxygen from water
The device was selected by the Department of Biotechnology for showcasing and launch on its 10th foundation day and at the 1st Bio-Tech Expo 2022.
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Jun 13, 2022 01:13 PM IST 'Abnormal' dinosaur egg discovered in Madhya Pradesh. What it means for evolution
An egg belonging to a titanosaurid dinosaur was found nested in another one at the Dinosaur Fossil National Park in Madhya Pradesh's Dhar district.
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Jun 10, 2022 08:59 AM IST A source of mysterious radio signals has been found in outer space
A new study published in peer-reviewed journal 'nature' throws some light on the baffling phenomena.
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Jun 09, 2022 10:24 AM IST In Antarctica, scientists discover 'hidden world' of creatures swimming under ice shelf
A climate change-related study ended in an element of surprise for a team of researchers from New Zealand.
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Jun 04, 2022 07:47 AM IST Google Doodle honours physicist Satyendra Nath Bose
Google Doodle: Satyendra Nath Bose's paper 'Planck’s Law and the Hypothesis of Light Quanta' is considered one of the most important findings in quantum theory.
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May 15, 2022 08:50 PM IST What got JRD Tata "hooked on aeroplanes" and other histories to discover at Science Beyond Borders
'Science Beyond Borders', curated by the Institut Francais en Inde and its partners, showcases collaborations in the fields of maths, astronomy, aviation, medicine, culture and space programmes.
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May 14, 2022 06:41 PM IST Science Beyond Borders: A very unlucky astronomer, Venus in transit and Pondicherry
A travelling exhibition which is now in Bengaluru throws light on a cosmic destiny.
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May 12, 2022 07:20 PM IST Scientists unveil image of huge black hole at Milky Way's center
Sagittarius A* possesses 4 million times the mass of our sun and is located about 26,000 light-years -- the distance light travels in a year, 5.9 trillion miles (9.5 trillion km) -- from Earth.
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May 08, 2022 07:31 AM IST Fitness Planner | 10,000 steps: benefits, myth vs reality and where the number came from
There is no medical basis for suggesting that 10,000 steps a day is the magic number. As with most modern myths, the source of this number is in marketing.
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May 06, 2022 12:10 PM IST SpaceX capsule splashes down, bringing 4 astronauts home from 6-month mission
The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying three US NASA astronauts and a European Space Agency (ESA) crewmate from Germany parachuted into calm seas in darkness at the conclusion of a 23-hour-plus autonomous flight home from the ISS.
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May 04, 2022 05:37 PM IST ISRO plans mission to Venus, eyes December 2024 launch window
Addressing a day-long meeting on Venusian science, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman S Somnath said the Venus mission has been conceived, a project report made and "money identified”.
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Apr 23, 2022 03:11 PM IST Language isn’t an instinct, it’s a game
In their new book, scientists Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater put forward the intriguing argument that origins of language lie in cultural improvisation and human imagination.
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Apr 04, 2022 07:24 PM IST Imagine Another World. Now Imagine 5,000 More
More than half of the 5,000 known exoplanets were spotted by Kepler, a workhorse NASA space telescope that retired in 2018. Out of them all, William Borucki, Kepler’s principal investigator, has a clear favorite: Kepler-62f, a super-Earth about 1,000 light-years from Earth.
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Mar 30, 2022 11:05 AM IST South Korea says it successfully test-fired first solid-fuel space rocket
The launch is the first such test since South Korea and the United States agreed last year to end decades of restrictions on the South's ballistic missile and rocket development, and comes less than a week after North Korea conducted its highest missile test yet.
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Mar 13, 2022 09:57 PM IST Over 60 innovative tech projects featured at IIT Madras CFI open house
Numerous projects such as CFI Team Abhiyaan's autonomous vehicle called the Bolt,' Team Abhyuday's rocket, Team Avishkar's Hyperloop, a Sports Science and Analytics' Projects done in collaboration with Sports Science Centre of Excellence, IIT Madras, a Bird Diverter project undertaken in partnership with Wildlife Institute Of India, and projects on Blockchain Technology were hosted.
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Mar 08, 2022 01:16 PM IST Chandrayaan-2 spectrometer makes first observations of global distribution of Argon-40 in Exosphere of Moon
'Exosphere’ is the outermost region of the upper atmosphere of a celestial body where the constituent atoms and molecules rarely collide with each other and can escape into space.
