The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has published the R&D; Roadmap for Green Hydrogen Ecosystem in India. This document was published on 13th October, 2023. One of the central pillars of the National Green Hydrogen Mission is the establishment of a supportive research and innovation ecosystem for green hydrogen …
A RECENT expedition to New Jersey organised by the American Museum of Natural History in New York, US, returned with a sizable haul from the fossilised world. The team led by David Grimaldi uncovered one of the richest deposits of amber ever found. The deposits found in central New Jersey …
DONT be surprised if while watching the Atlanta Olympic games later this year, you get the image of an ECG (Electrocardiogram - graph showing a persons heart conditions) on your TV screen. These would be the vital signs of the athlete, who is performing, being measured by a motion detector …
THE animal kingdom is inhabited by some species which exist in groups or packs, and these groups are led and dominated upon by individual male or female members. It had been believed for long that animals which are subjugated are the most stressed and suffer from various problems like miscarriages …
"THE living. and breathing realm of nature offers a huge)ibrary of design metaphors," says John Riles, president of Thinking Tools, a California-based concern which specialises in developing software based on natural analogies. The human immune system offers a .wide range of possibilities to ward off a virus of an altogether …
IN THESE days of new materials and corn - posites, it is interesting to note that sci- entists are increasingly turning towards nature in order to understand the origin of mechanical properties of material~. Spider dragline silk is one fibre whose unique properties have, 10l1g beep coveted by material scientists. …
BETA carotene, the amazing vitamin found primarily in carrots and promoted as a preventive cure for both cancer and heart disease may not work wonders after all. Contrary, to popular beliefs, two studies financed by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), US, reveal that beta carotene is completely ineffective in preventing …
A SEEMINGLY nonsensical trait displayed by the moth is that it spends a few hours of its short lifespan guzzling down enormous quantities of water from the one end and throwing it out of the other with great force. According to scientists, this activity - puddling - is a life-saving …
'Glueballs' are hypothetical nuclear particles that have eluded researchers for decades. If at all they exist, they are too short-lived to be observed directly. Now, after solving one million trillion arithmetic problems by running many computers for over two years, scientists at IBM claim to have demonstrated the existence of …
RESEARCHERS at International Business Machines (IBM) claim to have overcome a fundamental obstacle to the improvement of microscopes that work by using visible light. They can now directly examine and study very small fragments of matter such as genes. Developed at the company s Yorktown Heights, New York centre, the …
THE earth may not be the only planet capable of supporting life. Two new planets sighted recently can possibly do the same, as they show the ability to hold water and other building blocks of life. The exciting discovery was announced on January 17, 1996 at the winter meeting of …
A team of British scientists claim to have found a solution to the locust menace- A solitary locust is inactive, while a gregarious one in the company of thousands of others can mean mass destruction. Stephen Simpson and his colleagues at Oxford University discovered that the foam on which locust …
THERE are two ways in which the mystery behind the evolution of a species can be worked out: by examining fossil records, and by evaluating the rate of change in genes. Recently, the Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research funded a study which aimed at genetically breeding new …
The use of mice in laboratories started In the 17th century, when biology per " was transformed from a classical science to an experimental science. William Harvey (1578-1657) was the first to use mice - In 1616 - to elaborate on the blood circulation and reproductive systems In mammals. In …
THE scene could be straight out of a medical sci-fi a baboon is sacrificed and its bone marrow processed; a person terminally ill - an AIDS (Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome) victim who has volunteered to be a human guinea pig - is infused with about a pint of straw-coloured fluid …
THE chimaera - in Greek mythology - is a beast with the head of a lion, the body of a goat and the tail of a snake. Biologists use the word to refer to something no less exotic: an organism whose tissues have two or more genetically different origins. Theoretically, …
Researcher Melvin Dyer and his colleagues from the University of Georgia, US, have discovered a peculiar relationship or synergy. while a bug cats a plant, it also secretes a growth-promoting protein, which it supplies to the part of the plant it does not consume. Dyer has found this protein in …
Meandering water channels always follow a gently winding path. Why this happens has been explained with the help of a model developed by physicists Taniemola Liverpool and Sam Edwards, University of Cambridge, US. The two main components of the model include 'pinching of a part of the flow to form …
In a startling revelation, US geoscientist Ian Norton of the Exxon Exploration Company in Houston, Texas has claimed that the hot spot in the deep mantle under the Pacific plates has moved relative to the earth's lower mantle. It was thought earlier that hot spots are anchored in one place, …
What are the results of tests carried out with Immuno QR? Effect of treatment of herbal medicines to study the serological status of 10 HIV patients (arranged by Anand) was carried out by ELISA test at day 0 and thereafter at days 30, 60 and 90, after the initiation of …
THEY have finally caught the nasty genes - which have been plaguing women with breast cancer -- red-handed. Breast cancer research took three significant strides this year with the isolation of the BRCA-2 gene, with scientists zeroing in on the relationship between cancer gene mutation and the type of cancer …
