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IIT Bombay’s Marigold-like nanostructured material demonstrates the highest...
Dennis C J Read time: 1 min Mumbai6 Nov 2023Heat or thermal energy is a fundamental form of energy essential for life. Humans have been harnessing its power for everything from heating our homes and...
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Breaking ground in wastewater disease surveillance
Dennis C J Read time: 1 min Mumbai8 Nov 2023Scientists from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) have developed a low-cost, portable device designed to detect DNA in wastewater and...
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NISAR, the NASA-ISRO joint earth observation mission passes key tests at...
Read time: 3 mins Bengaluru16 Nov 2023The NASA-ISRO Satellite Aperture RADAR (NISAR) mission is an Earth observation satellite jointly built by the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) at NASA and ISRO, India. The...
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'Dialogue 2023: Expanding Science and Technology Horizons' summit organised...
Read time: 3 mins Bengaluru19 Nov 2023On 18 November 2023, the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) along with the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, in Bengaluru...
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Western Ghats Region at Risk from Rapid Soil Erosion
Sudhira H S Read time: 5 mins Mumbai20 Nov 2023The Western Ghats Region (WGR) is a unique landscape found in India along the western part of the Indian subcontinent, right from the south of Gujarat in...
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Indian Flavours of Attosecond Physics
Arati Halbe (आरती हळबे) Read time: 7 mins Mumbai21 Nov 2023We humans discovered a world of wonders when we were able to see objects smaller than the smallest and events that occurred faster than the...
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Promising Advancements for Efficient Coal Power Generation
Sudhira H S Read time: 1 min Mumbai11 Dec 2023Researchers are continuously looking for ways to make coal power generation cleaner and more efficient. Innovative experiments were conducted on a new kind...
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The Universality of ‘Phase Separation’ in Proteins
Dennis C J Read time: 1 min Mumbai14 Dec 2023Liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) occurs when a homogeneous solution of (bio)polymers phase separates into distinct, coexisting liquid phases under...
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Engineers Develop Novel Design to Improve Safety and Efficiency of Battery Packs
Dennis C J Read time: 1 min Mumbai22 Dec 2023Batteries play a pivotal role in our modern world, serving as the lifeblood of countless electronic devices ranging from mobile phones to electric vehicles....
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New Theoretical Model throws Light on Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts
Dennis C J Read time: 1 min Mumbai3 Jan 2024In 2007, American astrophysicist Duncan Lorimer and his students were looking through archival data of pulsars– the pulsing core remnant of a star that has...
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An interview with Infosys Prize winners, Arun Kumar Shukla & Mukund Thattai
Dennis C J Read time: 6 mins Bengaluru17 Jan 2024 “Science and scholarship are what will provide solutions to the most pressing problems of our times. Research is what will help us understand our...
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Understanding Boron's Microscopic Behaviour for Next-Generation Superalloys
Sudhira H S Read time: 1 min Mumbai2 Feb 2024Superalloys are alloys that are designed to withstand incredibly high temperatures and pressures for extended periods, serving crucial roles in the...
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Researchers discover a new species of burrowing frog in the heart of Bengaluru
Ramya Badrinath (ರಮ್ಯ ಬದರಿನಾಥ್) Read time: 4 mins Bengaluru9 Feb 2024When we learn about the discovery of a new species, we immediately assume that it must have been found in a forest, a biodiversity...
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IIT Bombay’s new thermally insulating coating material shows record heat...
Dennis C J Read time: 1 min Mumbai29 Feb 20242023 was the second hottest year on record in India since 1901, reported the India Meteorological Department (IMD). Globally, owing to climate change,...
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Walking towards a solution for early Parkinson's detection
Dennis C J Read time: 1 min Mumbai8 Mar 2024Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder affecting neurons in the brain. Named after James Parkinson, who first described the condition in...
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IIT Bombay researchers identify biomarkers that could tell apart less and...
Savitha Sekhar Nair Read time: 1 min Mumbai5 Apr 2024A multi-institutional study has identified a set of proteins that can potentially predict whether meningioma, a kind of brain tumour, is low- or...
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Strain-Resistant ‘Buckled Xenes’ Show Promise in Flexible Electronics
Dennis C J Read time: 1 min Mumbai18 Apr 2024Graphene, a 2-dimensional (2D) sheet made of a single layer of carbon atoms, is a wonder material with remarkable electrical, mechanical, and chemical...
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Mimicking locust brains: scientists develop low-power artificial neurons...
Sudhira H SDennis C J Read time: 1 min Mumbai22 Apr 2024In the age of artificial intelligence (AI), there are many exciting developments from chatbots powered by large-language models to autonomous...
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New IIT Bombay study could help improve cooperation amongst robots
Dennis C J Read time: 1 min Mumbai3 May 2024Humans have built mechanical devices to overcome their limitations since the dawn of civilization. From the simple water wheels that were used to harness the...
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