Electricity consumption from the manufacture of artificial intelligence (AI) chips has soared by more than 350 percent worldwide between 2023 and 2024, according to new research from Greenpeace East Asia. In East Asia, the global hub for AI semiconductor production, growing electricity demand from AI chipmaking has been met primarily …
leather has always been in vogue. This time round, it will be eco-friendly leather that will dominate the markets if the two final-year students of the Government College of Engineering and Leather Technology, Kolkata, get a patent for their product
Do you know what is common between a recently taken patent in the field of nanotechnology and a publication on animal behaviour in the journal Science, a little while ago? A report in January 2006 from the Interfax News Agency, Russia, which some greeted with enthusiasm and others dismissed with …
In an autobiographical piece, Professor Amulya K N Reddy described himself as a "socially responsible scientist' and a "maverick'. This self-description fitted him to the cue. Prof, as he was known to those who worked closely with him at the Indian Institute of Science (iis c ), Bangalore, and the …
caffeine test: Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, USA, are developing a dipstick that can be used to check for caffeine in a variety of drinks. It would be the first consumer test for caffeine and would be beneficial for anyone wishing to avoid caffeine …
despite its continuing sanctions against some Indian space facilities, the us wants India to carry two scientific instruments aboard Chandrayaan-1, the country's first lunar orbiter scheduled for an early-2008 launch. An agreement to this effect was signed between the us National Aeronautics and Space Administration (nasa) chief Michael Griffin and …
a new open source software to identify and manage the major weed species of rice-wheat cropping systems of the Indo-Gangetic plains was launched recently. It targets farmers, extension workers, students, researchers and grass roots organisations. The project is called the Open source Simple Computer for Agriculture in Rural areas software …
The announcement of the spectrum allocation policy by the department of telecommunications (dot) has spurred a letter writing campaign. Giant cellular service providers like Tata Indicom and Cellular Operator Association of India (coai) have shot off angry letters to the prime minister, petulant about the policy favouring their competitors. The …
Laxma Jarpula, farmer, hasn’t met agriculture scientists who say India’s food security and agricultural production rely heavily on pesticides. Three years ago, he decided to risk his cotton crop with pests, rather than pesticides. “I’d put the insects in the pesticides, and they wouldn’t die. The more pesticide I used, …
freshness sensor: Grocers, florists and even pharmacists may soon have a better way to monitor the quality of products they get from suppliers: a sensor that will tell when a product spoils. A team of University of Florida (in the US) engineering students has designed and built a prototype of …
According to you, the net cumulative benefit, since the advent of gm technology in 1996, is US $27 billion. How did you come to that figure? We considered the legally approved acreage of gm crop across the globe and then economic and environmental benefits were calculated based on nominal price …
The us and India may have reached a historic agreement on civilian nuclear technology, but history itself will be made by the bargaining that is likely to continue in the future. The deal began its life on July 18, 2005, as a shell meant to be filled with as much …
it seems times have changed. Information technology is out and agriculture is in. The thrust on agriculture is now enshrined in the draft of the Indo- us Knowledge initiative on Agricultural Research & Education, which is the agenda for us President George Bush when he comes to India in March …
A flock of pigeons wearing mobile phone-style backpacks are to be used as air-pollution monitors in the us, reports New Scientist. The 20 pigeons will each carry a Global Positioning System satellite tracking receiver, air pollution sensors (capable of detecting carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide) and a basic mobile phone …
expectations about the therapeutic potential of stem cells have suffered a setback with the revelation that a technique used for fraudulent research by Woo Suk Hwang of South Korea may still be granted a patent. "As long as an invention is not contrary to scientific laws
a group of scientists at the Chennai-based Central Leather Research Institute (clri) has developed two cost-effective and eco-friendly techniques to remove chromium from the effluents discharged by tanning units. The metal exists in its highly carcinogenic hexavalent form (chromium vi) in the effluent. Currently, chemical precipitation methods are used to …
Stunted stunt Driven by IT, plagued by it Bangalore's growth has been exponential, both in terms of population and its urban sprawl. The problem is that its urban infrastructure hasn't grown at anything like the same rate, and development priorities have been skewed by the city's excessive reliance on it. …
longest core: A core measuring more than 1.5 kilometres long has been recovered under the Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater Deep Drilling Project in the US. The impact crater was formed about 35 million years ago when a rock from space struck the Earth. The drilling project was a major success, …
After thirty years, rural development was back as the main theme of the Indian Science Congress, this year. Held in Hyderabad between January 3-7, 2006, the meet had "Integrated Rural Development: Science and Technology' as its theme. With both the President and the prime minister making an appearance, the Congress …
