Emerging technologies are powering national initiatives in many fields

New Delhi, January 30, 2022: New and emerging technologies are powering national initiatives in key areas with the help of solutions for people-centric problems being developed at the 25 innovation hubs across the country through the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS). Several technologies and technology platforms established under the mission have helped push impact […]

Devices by serial innovator from Anantnag making walnut processing easier for common people

New Delhi, January 25, 2022: Mushtaq Ahmed Dar, a grassroots innovator from the Anantnag district in the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir, has brought out a series of innovations for making walnut processing easier and more efficient, as well as a device for climbing poles. The innovations for walnut processing include a Walnut Cracking Machine’ […]

Spectacular landscape changes detected in Gujarat’s Kachchh region due to major earthquakes in recent geological past

New Delhi, January 24, 2022: Major earthquake events in last 30,000 years resulted in spectacular changes in landscape of the Katrol Hill Fault in the Kachchh region in Gujarat, a study conducted on sediment samples revealed. These surprising geological facts about the seismic history of the fault in the recent geological past necessitate a revised seismic […]

Special electro-active nanoparticles developed for potential applications in touch and acoustic sensor

New Delhi, January 22, 2022: The scientists have achieved δ-phase in PVDF nanoparticles at lowest possible electric field till date — 103 times lesser electric field than the conventional method. This makes the finding more convenient for application-based commercial technologies. This work has been published recently in the journal ‘Applied Physical Letters’. “The new method […]

Understanding strange metals related to high-temperature superconductors

New Delhi, January 18, 2022: Even by the standards of quantum physicists, strange metals are odd. The materials are related to high-temperature superconductors and have surprising connections to the properties of black holes. Subhro Bhattacharjee, Associate Professor at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bengaluru and recipient of the Swarnajayanti fellowship 2020-2021, aims to explore this […]