An Indian-origin computer scientist based in the US claims to have solved one of the world’s most complex mathematical riddles. Read the rest of this entry »
The night sky will be streaked with light in a celestial spectacle by the Perseid meteor shower Thursday. Skygazers can look towards the northeast around 2 a.m. Friday when over 100 meteors will sparkle in the night sky. It will last for a fraction of a second and will almost be as bright as most stars. Read the rest of this entry »
The human brain on a microchip is almost ready! Read the rest of this entry »
Scientists and students from across the world will participate in an Asian Science Camp organised in India for the first time Aug 17-19, an official said Tuesday. Read the rest of this entry »
The world’s first experiments using embryonic stem cells to treat humans have been given the go-ahead in the US. California-based biotech firm Geron will begin clinical trials on patients paralysed by spinal cord injuries. Read the rest of this entry »
Scientists were making efforts to contact the non-responsive Spirit Mars rover, which has lost contact with Earth during the Martian winter prompting fears that it might be permanently lost.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said Friday that it began paging the rover this week with a series of beeps that demand a response from Spirit. Read the rest of this entry »
Prof. S Krishnaswami has been awarded 1st National Award for Ocean Sciences and Technology for his contribution in the field of chemical scavenging in the oceans. Prof. Krishnaswami, during his scientific career for over four decades, has made fundamental and seminal contributions in the fields of Oceanography and Low-Temperature Geochemistry.
The discovery of 234 th-238 U radioactive disequilibria in surface waters and 210pb- 226Ra in deep waters of the oceans by Prof. Krishnaswami and colleagues provided a unique, direct and highly-sensitive approach to determine the time scales of chemical scavenging in the oceans. “Their results demonstrated for the first time that the kinetics of these processes are very rapid in the sea and that the removal of particle reactive elements by scavenging occurs on very short time scales, days to weeks in coastal and surface waters and decades in the deep sea, and that chemical scavenging is a ubiquities process in the ocean”, the Ministry of Earth Sciences says in a release.
These ideas and approaches are being used widely in international oceanographic programs to investigate and quantify Trace element scavenging and contaminant transport in the oceans and fluxes of particulate carbon through the water column, it says. Prof. Krishnaswami will receive Rs 1.00 lakh cash prize and a citation.
The Ministry of Earth Sciences has also selected people for Certificate of Merit for Young Scientists/Engineers. These include Dr.D.S.Pai is an experienced operational weather forecaster,
Dr.B.P.Yadav, Dr.S.D.Kotal, Dr.Anguluri Suryachandra Rao, Gopal Raman Lyengar, Dr.P.A.Francis, Dr.Laluraj C.M, M.M.Subramaniam, Dr. T. Shunmugaraj, Dr.G.Dharani and V V Jayakumar.
They have been awarded the Certificate of Merit for his outstanding contribution in the field of Ocean Sciences and Technology.They will also get cash prize of Rs 30,000/-and a citation