News on Science, Technology and Research in India
The leopard population in India recorded an encouraging increase of 62% in four years – from 7,910 in 2014 to 12,852 in 2018 — according to the latest estimates of the big cat numbers released on Monday.
The teams from the two institutions have developed a highly sensitive and robust point-of-care test that can detect falciparum infection. The test was validated by running samples containing different strains of P. falciparum from different geographical areas.
Reliance Industries Ltd will build what it claims to be the world’s largest zoo in Gujarat’s Jamnagar, a top company executive confirmed on Saturday. The zoo will house close to 100 different species of animals, birds and reptiles from India and across the world.
Supercapacitors have now gained substantial attention due to various advanced features in comparison to their batter counterparts. They have new energy saving and conversion equipment that is likely to have the potential of high power density, rapid discharge-charge, long cycle life, safe working, and low cost.
India’s planetary missions like Mars Mission may soon be able to reduce payload mass and launch costs with the help of an indigenously developed Metal- CO2 battery with CO2 as an Energy Carrier.
In its fiftieth successful flight, India’s workhorse Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) launched the communication satellite CMS-01, which will replace the old GSAT-12 satellite launched in 2011.
In a new study, teams of researchers from DBT-Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (DBT-THSTI), DBT-International Centre For Genetic Engineering And Biotechnology (DBT-ICGEB), and University of Turku, Finland, have come together to develop an ultra-sensitive rapid diagnostic test that circumvents the sensitivity gap.
An extinct spiecies, the Himalayan Serow was spotted in the cold deserts of the Spiti valley in Himachal Pradesh.
`Named ‘TurnPlus’, the innovation developed by a Bengaluru-based startup- Truce Consulting Services Pvt Ltd, provides for easy entry and exit into the front seat of a passenger car. It is a simple to install, swivel seat mechanism which is fitted under the existing bucket seat of a car. This allows the seat to pivot and come out to ensure that people who find it difficult to get in and out of a car do so with minimum effort.
The inclination of the orbits of the planets around the Sun is more or less the same. Therefore, the five visible planets, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and the Moon, appear to follow the same path that the Sun takes in the sky.
