Reply by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in compliance to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) order dated January 21, 2024 in the matter of ‘News item titled “Feeling anxious? Toxic air could be to blame” appearing in Times of India dated 10.10.2023’. NGT had directed CPCB to file a …
Both brain activity and its physical properties were used to create the map A new brain map, based on multiple scans of more than 400 individuals, has carved the "cortex" into 180 different compartments - 97 of which are new. This crumpled outer layer of the brain is home to …
Garden grass could become a source of cheap and clean renewable energy, scientists have claimed. A team of UK researchers, including experts from Cardiff University's Cardiff Catalysis Institute, have shown that significant amounts of hydrogen can be unlocked from fescue grass with the help of sunlight and a cheap catalyst. …
Getting clean water to communities in parched areas of the planet remains an ongoing challenge. Recent developments that harvest water from air have been proposed as a solution. However, the technology to do so consumes a lot of energy. But based on new modeling results, scientists now report in ACS' …
The Rajya Sabha on Monday passed a bill for establishment of regional centers for biotechnology, under the auspices of UNESCO, in the National Capital Region. The Bill seeks to establish a Regional Centre for Biotechnology, an institution of education, training and research, and declare it to be an institution of …
BILBAO, Spain – NASA intends to launch a larger and much improved telescope as a successor to Hubble towards the end of 2018, the European Space Agency said on Tuesday. The new telescope will study how the Universe’s first galaxies formed, said ESA scientist, Pierre Ferruit. One of the most …
Two potentially habitable rocky planets have been discovered with Nasa's Kepler telescope during a 'round-up' of exoplanets in which more than 100 new worlds were found. While current technology would not allow scientists to probe the planets any further, they could be shortlisted as targets for the James Webb telescope, …
This simulated cross-section shows how the lipid-like peptoids interact to form a membrane. Each peptoid has two sections: a fatty-like region that interacts via benzene rings (shown in pink) with its neighbors to form a sheet. And a water-loving region that juts above or below the flat sheet. Each region …
For the first time, researchers have successfully measured in detail the flow of solar energy, in and between different parts of a photosynthetic organism. The result is a first step in research that could ultimately contribute to the development of technologies that use solar energy far more efficiently than what …
Washington State University researchers have determined a key step in improving solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), a promising clean energy technology that has struggled to gain wide acceptance in the marketplace. The researchers determined a way to improve one of the primary failure points for the fuel cell, overcoming key …
Harvard researchers have identified a whole new class of high-performing organic molecules, inspired by vitamin B2, that can safely store electricity from intermittent energy sources like solar and wind power in large batteries. The development builds on previous work in which the team developed a high-capacity flow battery that stored …
1,300 new galaxies uncovered by one of the world's most powerful radio telescope The astronomers working the telescope, fired up 16 of its 64 recently built dishes and almost instantaneously discovered hitherto unseen galaxies in an area of the universe.SKA South Africa's MeerKAT radio telescope has uncovered 1,300 new galaxies. …
Grass plants, such as maize, dramatically alter their root structure in order to preserve water in the soil column during droughts, say researchers Grass species of crops adopt an "austerity" strategy and limits the development of its root system during times of drought, a study has revealed. The results offer …
The Solar Impulse 2 landed in Cairo on Wednesday for its penultimate stop as the solar-powered plane nears the end of its marathon tour around the world. After the two-day flight from Spain, just one final leg lies between it and its final destination, Abu Dhabi, where it started its …
A humming laboratory is birthing tiny solar cells -- the first such devices created on campus -- as Kennesaw State researchers strive to develop better photovoltaic technologies. Sandip Das, assistant professor of electrical engineering in the Southern Polytechnic College of Engineering and Engineering Technology, along with a team of three …
Can you imagine your phone being solely powered by microscopic bacteria? A team of scientists from Oxford University has devised a way to harness energy from the natural movement of bacteria, which, they say, could power man-made micromachines. According to the study published in the journal Science, these bacteria powerplants …
China has begun to build the first Sino-French satellite and plans to launch it in 2018 to improve oceanographical research, according to Chinese space scientists. The development of the prototype of China-France Oceanography Satellite, known as CFOSAT, has finished and production of the satellite has started, said Dong Xiaolong, assistant …
Solar Impulse has begun what should be its penultimate flight, leaving Seville in Spain bound for Cairo in Egypt. It should take the zero-fuel aircraft somewhere between 48 and 72 hours, depending on the weather conditions encountered en route. Solar Impulse is now in the home straight of its bid …
China will launch its first geoscientific satellite by 2020 for forecasting hydrological events, including floods and droughts. China announced its plans for the Water Cycle Observation Mission (WCOM) satellite at the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGRSS) 2016 which kicked off in Beijing yesterday.
An international team of astronomers has announced the discovery of a new dwarf planet in our Solar System, finding a distant object beyond Neptune that circles the Sun in a spectacularly wide orbit. Dubbed 2015 RR245 by the International Astronomical Union while they come up with a better name, the …
