IIT Delhi to start bachelor of design from session 2022-23

The four-year programme will have 20 seats to start with, and will be open to students of all specialisations 

A new roll-on to relieve period pain

Based on essential oils including eucalyptus oil, menthol and wintergreen oil, it can also help improve the mood of users

Sweet Victory For Diabetics

Carbohydrate-based sweeteners available in the market are not good for diabetics. Recently, 15 students from IIT Madras tweaked lactobacilli used …

How drug resistance spreads in urban environment

Pharmaceutical and personal care product residues were directly associated with raw sewage

This new photonic chip may power 5G

It can also find applications in satellite communication, RADARs, sensing and medical imaging equipment

A friendly graphene

It can widen the use of nanotechnology in healthcare

Silk route to healthy joints

Scientists grow cartilage tissue from silkworm protein

Promises kept and not kept

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This biosensor attached to your phone can sniff bacteria

IIT-Delhi researchers have developed a biosensor and an app that can be used for bacterial detection

Surprise discovery for Indian scientists: nanosheets can also act as chemical reagents

Team from IIT Gandhinagar discovers that boron-rich nanosheets are chemical reagents too, with potential applications in energy storage devices …

Poor air quality a major cause of premature deaths

A study conducted 11 north Indian cities says that annual premature mortality rate linked to air pollution ranges from 150-300 people per 1 lakh …

Energy in news on April 11

Here’s a round-up of today’s news reports and debates on energy

Bone again

A nano cure for cancer

Early detection made possible

Know as it pains

iSens diagnoses heart attack in less than 10 minutes

Ganga in IITs’ care

Ramesh dumps international consultants for a basin conservation plan

IIT Kharagpur gets new high power computing facility

The research activities will include building hardware and software for high performance computing systems, data management, analytics and …

Indian scientists make magnetic graphene for NextGen digital devices

The work could pave the way for stretching performance of integrated circuits and eventually lead to realization of laptops powered by graphene-…

Neural networks on portable devices could be a reality soon

Artificial neural networks function the same way as the human nervous system, and are based on interconnected processing elements working …

Futuristic microwave shield

Indian scientists develop novel material to block radiation

Bug love

More than just a drink

Better cells

Dump wars

Fungi can even chew on plastic when it comes to food  

Anti-malaria drug may be repurposed to treat Zika

A team of Indian researchers identify a viral protein that can be targeted by an already available anti-malarial drug — hydroxychloroquine (HCQ)