News on Science, Technology and Research in India
Now Indian scientists have developed a new nanotechnology-based drug which can be administered through nose. They have found that when neuropathic drugs are encapsulated in nanoparticles and transported via nasal route they can be more effective in curing nerve related pains.
Scientists have completed a parent-wise genome assembly of buffalo in the country.
“Indian industries are making the telescope’s sensors, actuators and its mechanical support structure,” he said. Indian industries are making the telescope’s sensors, actuators and its mechanical support structure,” said A N Ramaprakash, associate programme director of TMT, India
The recent findings would help corroborate theories pointing to a historic maritime past. Prominent among the findings are goblet-shaped vessels and conical jars which are worth mentioning as they are supposed to have been used by the elite. These were not used for cooking but were used to consume wine,” surmised Dr. Sreelakshmi, Superintending Archaeologist, Archaeological Survey of India, Excavation Branch VI, Bengaluru.
The space mission is likely to be launched in 2022. Lt Gen Puri said Bengaluru-based IAF’s Institute of Aerospace Medicine (IAM) has initiated the process of finalizing the crew.
Splitting water using electricity is a widely explored method to generate hydrogen, a sought-after clean power source for fuel cells, batteries and zero emission vehicles.
Researchers at IITM set out to evaluate an over 150-year-old paper on a whirlwind at Pundooah (now Pandua) in West Bengal’s Hooghly district by an Indian scientist, Chunder Sikur Chatterjee.
The bizarre fish has been named Aenigmachanna Gollum (Gollum Snakehead) after ‘Gollum’, a character from the ‘The Lord of the Rings’, a creature that went underground and during its subterranean life changed its morphological features. The new fish is not only a new species, but also a remarkable new genus of the snakehead family channidae (which is currently represented by two other genera, Channa in Asia, and Parachanna in Africa).
A group of faculty members at IISc have developed India’s first-ever e-mode gallium nitride power transistor, whose performance is comparable to some of the best reports till date.
A team of two students from SRM Chennai have developed a cheaper alternative for an existing model of Delta robots that are capable of faster automating in plants in the industrial floor.
