Science and Technology

IISc launches product accelerator programme, Pravriddhi

The Hindu:Science - 21/11/2024
Pravriddhi provides a platform for enterprises, academia, research laboratories, and investors to collaborate to drive innovation and new product development for a self-reliant India

Sci five | The Hindu Science Quiz: on bones

The Hindu:Science - 21/11/2024
This week’s Sci-five quiz is on bones.

Elon Musk's Neuralink receives Canadian approval for brain chip trial

The Hindu:Science - 21/11/2024
Canada's University Health Network hospital said in a separate statement that its Toronto facility had been selected to perform the complex neurosurgical procedure

ISRO signs Implementation Agreement with Australian Space Agency for Gaganyaan mission

The Hindu:Science - 21/11/2024
The IA enables the Australian authorities to work with Indian authorities to ensure support for search and rescue of crew and recovery of crew module as part of contingency planning for ascent phase aborts near Australian waters

2024's record ocean heat revved up Atlantic hurricane wind speeds: study

The Hindu:Science - 21/11/2024
The study, published by the research institute Climate Central, found that all eleven hurricanes in 2024 intensified by nine to 28 miles per hour (14-45 kph) during the record-breaking ocean warmth of the 2024 hurricane season.

‘I wanted every Kannadiga to feel proud of the king cobra’

The Hindu:Science - 21/11/2024
Karnataka’s own king cobra found in the Western Ghats and known as ‘Kaalinga Sarpa’ locally will be officially named Ophiophagus Kaalinga at an event in Bengaluru on November 22. Work by researcher P. Gowri Shankar and his team has shown that it is a distinct species

GM crops can help fight hunger — depending on how they are farmed

The Hindu:Science - 21/11/2024
Modern tools like CRISPR help scientists make targeted changes to a plant’s genome, cutting the cost of development. People are also more accepting of GM when the plant doesn’t have foreign genes. But the costs of regulation and ensuring nothing harmful enters the market is still too high for institutions that don’t only work for profit

Is climate change making tropical storms more frequent? Scientists say it’s unclear

The Hindu:Science - 20/11/2024
How much is climate change responsible for the appearance of four tropical cyclones at the same time in the West Pacific for the first time since 1961?

IISc researchers devise a new language for ML models

The Hindu:Science - 20/11/2024
The language called STRONG (STring Representation Of Nanopore Geometry) assigns different letters to different atom configurations and creates a sequence of all the atoms on the edge of a nanopore to specify its shape

Major WHO-partnered eye care project in Assam soon

The Hindu:Science - 20/11/2024
The first at this scale in South Asia and Southeast Asia, the project aims to address the need to combat refractive errors, the leading cause of vision impairment affecting more than 2.2 billion people globally

The science of plant communication

The Hindu:Science - 20/11/2024
We know birds, animals and insects constantly communicate with each other by making certain sounds. But when we think about plants, we do not ever think of them communicating. Charles Darwin, an eminent biologist, thought otherwise. Plants might appear the quiet, silent and solitary type of organisms but they have a complex way of communicating which is interesting and important for their survival. 

Starship's first ever payload was a stuffed banana

The Hindu:Science - 20/11/2024
The flight also carried Starship's first ever payload - a stuffed banana - and served as a swan song for the current generation of Starship prototypes

If diamonds and pencils are made out of carbon, how is it that pencils can write?

The Hindu:Science - 20/11/2024
When you write using a pencil, you are sliding the core of the pencil on paper. In the process, you’re forcing the carbon atoms of the pencil to slide on the atoms of the paper

As sun nears peak of solar cycle, small satellites are paying the price

The Hindu:Science - 20/11/2024
As the Sun kicked into high gear, three Australian satellites burned up in the atmosphere much sooner than expected

Three groups of cicadas emerge together for first time in 1,547 years

The Hindu:Science - 20/11/2024
North American cicadas have life cycles that last for prime numbers of years, putting pressure on the idea that humans created mathematics

Why airlines cancel flights after volcanic eruptions

The Hindu:Science - 20/11/2024
There was a famous incident in 1982 where a British Airways plane flying near Indonesia lost all its engines after it encountered volcanic ash spewing from Mt. Galunggung

SpaceX launches giant Starship rocket but passes up catching booster with mechanical arms

The Hindu:Science - 20/11/2024
SpaceX launches Starship rocket, misses booster catch, and aims for moon and Mars with reusable spacecraft technology

IAF signs MoA with IISc and Foundation for Science Innovation and Development

The Hindu:Science - 19/11/2024
The MoA includes Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Digital Twin based technologies for lifecycle management, productive maintenance and asset planning

IIT Bombay scientists develop water-pollutant detecting device ‘AroTrack’

The Hindu:Science - 19/11/2024
The device uses a protein-based biosensor to detect harmful pollutants like phenol and benzene from water samples.

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