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 …
T.S. Subramanian THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has embarked on a programme to induct semi-cryogenic engines, which will use kerosene as fuel, and this engine will form the booster for its future launch vehicles, ISRO Chairman K. Radhakrishnan said on Sunday. The Geo-synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV Mark …
VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV The Russian space agency will invite Nasa, the European Space Agency, the Chinese space agency and others to join the project once it is finalised ussia is considering sending a spacecraft to a large asteroid to knock it off its path and prevent a possible collision with earth, …
S. RAGHOTHAM Shashikanth, Arnab and Ashim of IIT-Kharagpur have built an earthen pot-in-pot cold storage system -- a refrigerator that uses almost no electricity, except that consumed by a small fan. When a chirpy 20something Punjabi girl in pink tees and blue jeans begins to animatedly talk to you about …
IWST will use nanotechnology to create this unique material for furniture, car interiors Unique material: Test samples of the wood-polymer composites at the Institute of Wood Science and Technology in Bangalore Bangalore: Scientists in the city have got the go-ahead to develop a new class of material, an unlikely hybrid …
Anand/Vadodara: Ever wondered why the chilly that you purchase is brighter than that collected from farms or gourd unexpectedly longer than those plucked by farmers? You should know that they have been chemically injected. The Sophisticated Instrumentation Centre for Applied Research & Testing (SICART) in Vallabh Vidyanagar has now purchased …
Debarun Borthakur They say every form of art acts as a mirror for society, and if you believe it to be true, you cannot rule out a sense of responsibility on the artists
London, June 22: Water conservation usually takes a backseat while doing laundry, but not anymore, for now a new environmentally friendly washing machine, which uses use only one cup of water and leaves clothes virtually dry, is all set to hit showrooms in 2010. Developed at the University of Leeds, …
Ahmedabad : India Meteorological Department (IMD), Ahmedabad is set to procure a state-of-the-art Doppler Radar to track weather conditions more accurately in and around city. According to IMD officials, this sophisticated weather prediction system that can detect weather conditions within a radius of 500 km, will be in place by …
SANGEETHA CHENGAPPA BENGALURU Over 40 CSIR funded developmental technologies with approximately Rs 50 crore in funding are currently languishing as there are no takers to commercialise and take them to market, either in India or abroad Speaking on the sidelines of Bangalore Bio 2009, professor and head of the Biotech …
P B JAYAKUMAR / Mumbai May 1, 2009, 1:30 IST With the global swine flu virus spread seemingly not under control, the Indian distributor of a recently started unique air purification system has approached the government with an invention claimed to stop the infection
Tests confirmed that vegetables stored in it contain high levels of nutrients The best alternate: Students of Century Foundation Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Tirupur, with the eco-fridge developed by them. Tirupur: A team of five students from the Century Foundation Matriculation Higher Secondary School here, who had carved a niche …
Bangalore: Megha-Tropiques, a satellite to study tropical weather and climate, is in an advanced stage of development and likely to be launched in December, according to C.B.S. Dutt, programme coordinator of the mission at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Dr. Dutt, speaking to The Hindu after an International Conference …
By THAYER WALKER In 2005, two Silicon Valley engineers, Joe Rizzi and Roger Hine, began building a device that would allow them to listen to the calls of humpback whales off the coast of Mr. Rizzi
London, Nov. 24: Worried about impending water shortages due to climate change? Stop worrying, researchers have created a gadget that can be used to create drinking or irrigation water from thin air. The gadget, called WaterMill, has been developed by a Canadian company, Element Four, which is a marketing and …
