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 …
A world-leading aerospace society has awarded its top prize on ground testing to a Chinese scientist for the first time, demonstrating China's great strides in the field, academic journal Acta Aerodynamica Sinica reported recently. The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) presented the Ground Testing Award 2016 to Jiang …
The International Space Station launched CubeSat, a mini-satellite that is first of its kind. The miniature satellite was a breakthrough project built by a group of grade school students from St, Thomas More Cathedral School in Virginia. Prior to being launched in space, it was first deployed to the space …
US biochemical engineer Frances Arnold gives a speech to accept the Millennium Technology Prize 2016 during the award ceremony in Helsinki, Finland, on May 24, 2016. Arnold won the million-euro technology prize for her work on "directed evolution". AMERICAN biochemical engineer Frances Arnold, whose discoveries in “directed evolution” have helped …
Ecological scaling laws are intensively studied for their predictive power and universal nature but often fail to unify biodiversity across domains of life. Using a global-scale compilation of microbial and macrobial data, we uncover relationships of commonness and rarity that scale with abundance at similar rates for microorganisms and macroscopic …
The spacecraft, once commissioned, will bring to 14 the number of platforms in the EU's version of GPS. With another four satellites set to go up in a few months, Galileo is now on course to start the public transmission of initial navigation and timing services before the end of …
University of Adelaide environmental researchers have called for a 'code of best practice' in using unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) for wildlife monitoring and protection, and other biological field research. The researchers, from the University's Unmanned Research Aircraft Facility (URAF) or Adelaide Drone Hub, say that drones are a useful tool …
Arusha — Tanzania has authorised the use of drones in Tarangire National Park in a hi-tech battle against poachers who threaten the country's multi-billion dollars wildlife tourism industry. Covering an area of 2,600 square kilometers, Tarangire National Park in northern Tanzania, is best known for its large herds of elephants …
After the fourth attempt, NASA successfully launched a super pressure balloon from Wanaka airport in New Zealand. Its mission is to perform near-space scientific investigations. This was the fifth attempt after other attempts were thwarted because of bad weather, according to NASA. Dwayne Orr from Columbia Balloon Facility said that …
India has developed a reusable space shuttle and a test version of it is ready to be launched this month. Space exploration is a complex science which is why it is understandable for whoever engaged in space science to spend billions of dollars in developing their technology alone. India isn't …
Leaving the European Union would cause a steep drop in research funding for scientists in the United Kingdom, according to a new study—and it's unclear whether the country can "buy its way back" into European funding schemes under favorable conditions.
Zipline Inc, a California-based robotics firm Friday announced details of a partnership with Government to make on-demand deliveries of life-saving medical products using drones. This follows a deal signed in February, between the government and the firm to build infrastructure for unmanned aerial system (UAS) to ensure efficient logistical transportation …
NASA built the biggest and most powerful rocket ever made, the Space Launch System (SLS) which can carry as mush as 143 tons of weight and will enable an on-board crew spacecraft, Orion, to travel deeper into space where no crew has gone before. The Space Launch System or SLS …
Fault damage zones record the integrated deformation caused by repeated slip on faults and reflect the conditions that control slip behavior. To investigate the Japan Trench décollement, we characterized the damage zone close to the fault from drill core recovered during Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 343 (Japan Trench Fast …
The Union Cabinet approved the National Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Policy that will lay the future roadmap for intellectual property in India. The Policy recognises the abundance of creative and innovative energies that flow in India, and the need to tap into and channelise these energies towards a better and …
Judgement of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Cellular Opeators Association of India & Others Vs Telecom Regulatory Authority of India & Others dated 11/05/2016 regarding call drop compensation by telecom service providers. Supreme Court upholds the contention of Cellular Operators' Association of India regarding the need …
Implantation of the blastocyst is a developmental milestone in mammalian embryonic development. At this time, a coordinated program of lineage diversification, cell-fate specification, and morphogenetic movements establishes the generation of extra-embryonic tissues and the embryo proper, and determines the conditions for successful pregnancy and gastrulation. Despite its basic and clinical …
Chinese scientists launched a sounding rocket from south China's Hainan Province in the early hours of Wednesday. Kunpeng-1B was launched from Danzhou City at 2 a.m. by the National Space Science Center (NSSC). The rocket fulfilled its mission of taking measurements in the upper atmosphere that will help with research …
Russia launched a Soyuz-2.1a space rocket from the newly-built Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Far Eastern Amur region in the early hours of Thursday, TASS news agency reported. The rocket blasted off from the cosmodrome at 5:01 a.m. Moscow time (0201 GMT), one day after the first launch attempt was aborted …
SEOUL, April 27 (Xinhua) -- South Korea and the United States on Wednesday signed an agreement on space cooperation to jointly explore and use outer space for peaceful purposes, Seoul's foreign ministry said. The signing event was held during the opening ceremony of the second South Korea-U.S. civil space dialogue …
When it comes to the lab, accidents aren't usually a good thing, but an unexpected result has led chemists to a system that could make batteries last up to 400 times longer than the best-performing batteries today. While the new battery would still need to be recharged, the big difference …
