News on Science, Technology and Research in India
Two Indian entrepreneurs in Okinawa Prefecture are developing an organic polymer made from fruit scraps that can retain water 50 times its weight, in a potential breakthrough for farming in water-scarce regions.
Supercapacitors, also known as ultra-capacitors are electrochemical devices used for the storage of electrical energy, whose popularity is growing rapidly. The activated carbon is an expensive material commonly used to produce such ultra-capacitors. Newly developed graphene oxide found to be a cost alternative material for producing ultra-capacitors, which has reduced its weight as well as its cost by ten times, say researchers.
The flight surgeons, who will be Indian Air Force doctors specialising in aviation medicine and responsible for the health of astronauts before, will be shortlisted soon, an official from ISRO said.
Even before orbiting astronauts on India’s first manned mission to space in December 2021, the Indian Space Research Organisation will send ‘ Vyomamitra ,’ a lady robot, in unmanned Gaganyaan spacecraft.
Thanks to the scientists of Dr. Y.S. Parmar university of Horticulture and Forestry Nauni who had after prolonged trials have established that cultivation of this exotic fruit in sub tropical zones could prove as lucrative as the apple in higher, tropical zones of the state.
Patient Specific Implant (PSI) are required when current commercially available implant for the site are either not available or doesn’t fulfill the anatomical requirement. In those cases PSI are designed for one particular patient from the CT-Scan data and then manufactured using 3D printing technology in Titanium or other biocompatible materials. The technology has been developed by CSIR-CSIO.
ISRO, in its true tradition, is most likely to take the complete Lander technology up by a few notches to create an advance lender, a more complex unit which is more in sync with its futuristic programmes like Gaganyaan mission of 2022
On Tuesday, a year-long project to assess the status of orchids in Arunachal Pradesh was initiated with the government signing a Memorandum of Understanding with International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) India to create a Red Listing of orchids at the state level.
The “breeding loan” arrangement between Assam zoo and Nagaland Zoo was carried out after the male species from the Nagaland zoo was sent to Assam zoo which already had two female serows.
The new policy to be helmed by the Department of Science and Technology would highlight various challenges that India needs to address with innovation in the science and technology sector.
