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March 20, 2023 03:57 PM IST The white-coloured humanoid "Garmi" does not look much different from a typical robot -- it stands on a platform with wheels and is equipped with a black screen on which two blue circles acting as eyes are attached. Garmi is a product of a new sector called geriatronics, a discipline that taps advanced technologies like robotics, IT and 3D technology for geriatrics, gerontology and nursing.
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March 06, 2023 05:44 PM IST The British Indian leader said the new Science and Technology Framework is designed to challenge every part of government to better put the UK at the forefront of global science and technology this decade through 10 key actions, creating a coordinated cross-government approach.
- February 21, 2023 01:38 PM IST
The hair samples being sent into space belong to former US Presidents Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan
- February 16, 2023 07:22 PM IST
The Moon's dark regions that are visible to the naked eye, known as the 'mare', are remnants of a violent history of the Solar System, ISRO said.
- February 14, 2023 01:16 PM IST
The aerospace company pitched the technique for NASA's Artemis program
- January 30, 2023 10:06 AM IST
Indonesia and Brazil are the Troika members along with India, the host nation. The two-day meeting to be held on Monday and Tuesday will focus on scientific and technology aspects that would help the growth of nations.
- January 28, 2023 04:43 PM IST
In a projection made by the team for 2050, the four degradation factors will continue to be major sources of carbon emissions into the atmosphere, regardless of the growth or suppression of deforestation of the forest.
- January 03, 2023 11:44 AM IST
Development in science should be aimed at fulfilling India's needs, and this should be the inspiration for our scientific community, he said in his address to the Indian Science Congress, being held in Nagpur, via video conferencing.
- December 28, 2022 05:02 PM IST
The year 2022 has seen some of the key developments and breakthroughs in science. From images of unseen universe to breakthrough in Alzheimer's treatments. Let’s take a look at some…
- December 11, 2022 04:42 PM IST
Cameron holds the record for the deepest a human being has ever dived in the ocean; with 'Avatar: The Way of Water', he hopes to inspire the next generation of discoverers by introducing viewers to the wonders of the ocean.
- December 05, 2022 04:59 PM IST
In a bold attempt to stop the progress of some cases of Alzheimer’s disease, a group of researchers is trying something new: injecting a protective gene into patients’ brains.
- November 26, 2022 04:52 PM IST
The entire collection covers more than 15,000 letters written between 1822 and 1882
- November 27, 2022 08:34 AM IST
A team from the Australian National University shares some astonishing new insights.
- November 26, 2022 12:27 PM IST
News of an earthquake in some part of the world is popping up every now and then… But why is it so? Is the frequency of earthquakes really rising? Or it is just a temporary cluster? Find out every detail in this video!
- November 20, 2022 08:17 AM IST
Siddhartha Mukherjee's new book, a deep-dive into the mysteries and marvels of the tiny biological cell, is a monumental addition to the small but solid genre of medical non-fiction.
- November 17, 2022 06:22 PM IST
The floods, which killed more than 600 people in Nigeria and more than 200 in Niger and Chad, were the consequence of an extremely wet rainy season.
- November 02, 2022 07:24 AM IST
There is, however, another imported oil the South Asian nation is addicted to: the one used for cooking. Indian kitchens spend $19 billion annually on Indonesian palm, Ukrainian sunflower and Argentinian soybean oil.
- October 15, 2022 05:00 PM IST
APJ Abdul Kalam: India's former president and renowned scientist was born on October 15, 1931.
- October 03, 2022 03:39 PM IST
Svante Pääbo has been given the top honour “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution", an official statement said.
- September 10, 2022 10:03 AM IST
In seven quick chapters, scientist Justin Gregg unpacks how humans are 'why' specialists, and why we would do well not to consider our intelligence superior to other animals'.
- September 07, 2022 07:17 PM IST
These miniature jellyfish, known as Turritopsis dohrnii, wave and grasp with their pale tentacles, bringing plankton to their mouths, as do many other jellyfish species adrift in the glowing water.
- August 30, 2022 06:20 PM IST
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore have created and tested a brand-new COVID-19 vaccine candidate that resembles the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
- August 28, 2022 05:14 PM IST
The Education Department of the Delhi government gave the information in response to an application filed under the Right To Information (RTI) Act on behalf of PTI. The RTI sought information on the number of Delhi government schools teaching science and commerce subjects in classes 11 and 12 as well as the number of new schools opened by the government between February 2015 and May 2022 in the city.
- August 27, 2022 04:58 PM IST
The study is based on observations of a population of free-ranging, long-tailed macaques that live in or near the Sacred Monkey Forest Sanctuary in Ubud, a Balinese town in Indonesia, where the animals regularly receive food from humans.
- August 19, 2022 06:50 PM IST
Stars come in many varieties, including simmering dwarfs and brilliant hypergiants. The life expectancy and ultimate fate of a star — and, therefore, any planets orbiting it — is tied to its mass: Red dwarfs may live for trillions of years, whereas massive stars blow up within a few million.
