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Bannerghatta Zoo Welcomes Another Hippopotamus

Bannerghatta Biological Park, Bengaluru on Saturday announced the birth of baby Hippopotamus in Bannerghatta Zoo on July 24.
BBP executive director Vanashri Vipin Singh said that the baby Hippopotamus and its mother ‘Dashya’ aged around 11 years are healthy and doing well.

Bengaluru Scientists Fabricate Invisible Shield for Electromagnetic Interference

H G Wells’ ‘Invisible Man’ tweaked optical properties of the body to become invisible. Scientists have now achieved a similar feat by designing a metal mesh structure instead of continuous film on desired transparent substrates to make it a transparent shield for electromagnetic interference (EMI). The invisible shield can be used in various military stealth applications and can cover electromagnetic wave emitter or absorber devices without compromising their aesthetics.

IIA Scientists Discover He-Enhanced Cool Bright Stars Among the Metal-Rich Parts of Omega Centauri Cluster

Globular clusters are the stellar systems with millions of stars formed from the same gaseous cloud. Hence, usually, the stars formed will be homogeneous in their chemical composition of elemental abundances. But, there are clusters which deviate from this norm. One is being Omega Centauri, the brightest and the largest globular cluster in our Galaxy, the Milky Way.

Researchers Makes LEDs More Shinier and Robust

Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati and Imperial College London, UK, have developed a tailored ‘meta-grid’ of nanoparticles that could make light-emitting diodes (LEDs) even brighter, energy-efficient and durable.