The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
After sending a probe to Mars in 2020, China plans to explore three asteroids and land on one of them to conduct scientific research, according to a Chinese asteroid research expert. The "China's Space Activities in 2016" white paper, recently issued by the Information Office of the State Council, also …
Indian Space Research Organisation’s (Isro) Mission Readiness Review (MRR) team and the Launch Authorisation Board (LAB) have given the go-ahead for the launch of GSLV-D5 on January 5, 2014. The 29-hour countdown will commence at 11 hrs (IST) on January 4. The spacecraft will be carrying advanced communication satellites. “Things …
Prof. Tapas Kumar Kundu of Bangalore-based Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research has won the G. D. Birla Award for his contributions in the field of bio-chemistry. The award, instituted by the K. K. Birla Foundation to accord recognition to high-calibre scientific research undertaken by Indian scientists below the …
- An initiative of two NGOs, screen campaign across villages changes the face of agriculture Ranchi, Sept. 14: They are no ordinary educational tools. Made by farmers for farmers, a number of short-duration video films are revolutionising the way agricultural activity is carried out in the hamlets of Jharkhand. Farmers …
The Rashtriya Sattoti Haud Mandal Trust of Kasba Peth will showcase unconventional energy resources on Ganeshotsav this year. Volunteers of the trust, in association with students of Vishwakarma Institute of Technology (VIT) and Modern Technical Centre, are in the process of making energy instruments that will be put on display. …
The project has received appreciation of technologists from IITs and IIMsPower team:Final year ECE students of Sona College of Technology, Salem, (from left to right)SALEM: The students of Sona College of Technology here have gone green by developing a new electronic gadget that will reduce the emission of carbon dioxide …
R Haldorai | ENS SOON, residents living near forest will be relieved from the wild elephant menace. A Kovai-based engineering college and the Forest department have jointly developed a prototype device to detect the intrusion of elephants into agricultural fields, railway tracks or farms. Professors R Jayaparvathy and SJ Sugumar …
In what could revolutionise commercial aviation, scientists claim to have designed a green plane which is estimated to use 70 per cent less fuel than the current aircraft and reduce noise and nitrogen oxide emission. A team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology has come up with the design which it …
Vasundhara Vyas Mehta | TNN Ahmedabad: Innovation is the only solution for the challenge of energy conservation and final year students of instrumentation department of Nirma University have proved this. A huge amount of electricity is wasted when the streetlights stay on during the day. In the computerised systems, the …
Pune The System of Air Pollution Forecasting and Research (SAFAR) developed by Pune scientists at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meterology (IITM) to give air quality at a given time and predict what it will be 24 hours later has come in for praise from the UN. SAFAR will also …
LUCY TOBIN The probes do not need a huge chunk of concrete or a power station to get them to run and they contain long-lasting batteries Accurate forewarning: Put together with meteorological predictions for rainfall and storms, the data from the sensors can show how and why things are moving, …
T.S. Subramanian CHENNAI: The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed a diagnostic kit that can detect A(H1N1) virus in an hour. The kit does not need sophisticated instruments and can be used in villages where electricity is not available. It just costs Rs.1,500. It uses a simple technique …
Prashant Rupera | TNN Vadodara/Anand: In a move aimed to save the Ganges from pollution and give its aquatic life a breather, a system developed by a researcher of Sardar Patel University (SPU) will be installed at Mathura. S N Jha, a technical assistant at SPU
EXPERTS from the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) in Kochi have set up equipment off Kodiakarai coast to carry out environ- mental impact assessment (EIA) for a new alignment of the Sethusamudram Ship- ping Canal project. In July 2008, following a Supreme Court directive Centre had appointed a pan- el …
Pranav Kulkarni Students at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune, have designed a special device which will enable volunteers at the Commonwealth Games this October to collect primary data for transport emission around the Games Village. The device is part of the System of Air Quality Forecasting and …
Sudha Nambudiri KOCHI: With most people becoming conscious and aware of the quality of food, water and medicine, biosensors have started to play an important role in our lives. They are fast becoming an important tool in research and commercial applications as they can identify specific targets in the human …
