News on Science, Technology and Research in India
The Uttarakhand Lichen Park may just be the perfect spot for spending a lazy afternoon sprawled on the grass and soaking in the warm sunlight. With an area of 1.5 acres, the park hosts over 150 species of lichen.
CSIR-CMERI for the very first time has come up with a dual solution (excess F- and Fe3+ mitigation from ground water). The present invention reveals about proper design and subsequent development of an integrated, low-cost, commonly available multi-adsorbent based community level (high flow rate) water purification system for effective and simultaneous removal of fluoride and iron (below WHO permissible limit) in an efficient manner from contaminated water.
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and KPIT successfully ran trials of India’s first Hydrogen Fuel Cell (HFC) prototype car running on an indigenously developed fuel cell stack at CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune. The fuel cell is a low temperature PEM (Proton Exchange Membrane) type Fuel Cell that operates at 65-75 degree centigrade, which is suitable for vehicular applications.
After years of grit and determination, eight critically endangered white-rumped vultures, six of them captive-bred, were reintroduced into the wild on Thursday for the first time in India since the vulture conservation and breeding centre was set up in the lower Shivaliks near here Pinjore, Haryana in September 2001.
National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) has successfully developed an innovative bioinformatics tool named RemeDB, which would help identify novel bioremediation- related enzymes from a huge set of metagenomic sequence data.
Colour quality is a key challenge faced in producing white Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) as a general light source. Scientists in their search for methods to produce high-quality white light have unearthed crucial reaction insights that can help design white LEDs.
The team is developing new disease control strategies which they can use as vaccines that activate the rice immune system and provide resistance to rice plants from subsequent infections by pathogens.
Dr Manik Pradhan and his research team at S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, an autonomous institute of the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, has recently spotted the new biomarker for diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori in semi-heavy water (HDO) in human exhaled breath.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is set to launch its Venus mission in 2025 and France will participate in it, French space agency CNES said on Wednesday.
Scientists have uncovered an important clue on how the dark ages of the Universe ended and how the first extreme-UV light appeared.
