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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.
The exhibition is a joint initiative of the Departments of Atomic Energy (DAE), Science and Technology (DST) and the National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) and will be open only on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays between 10 am and 6 pm.
The study by scientists at the Mumbai-based Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) has found that the neurotransmitter boosts the number of mitochondria in brain cells.
The inventor is a retired Madras University professor Venkatesan Kaviyarasan and his PhD student J Manjunathan.
