Juice Jacking Mobile phones can get infected through a type of cyber attack called Juice Jacking. A USB port is not simply a power socket, you can also use it to transfer and sync your data. A hacker can tamper with…
Xenobots Scientists in the United States have created the world’s first “living machines” — tiny robots built from the cells of the African clawed frog, that can move around on their own. They have named the millimetre-wide robots “xenobots” —…
Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has issued an advisory asking all private television broadcasters to follow guidelines issued by the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) for advertisements relating to online gaming, fantasy…
Pan IIT Global Summit PanIIT USA is organizing its first and the biggest Global Virtual Summit. The theme of IIT-2020 Global Summit is ‘The Future is Now’. The Summit will focus on issues like global economy, technology, innovation, health, habitat…
Photon for Improving Quantum Technologies Recently Scientists are working towards understanding the light emission down to a single elementary particle called photon for improving quantum technologies. Spontaneous emission can be tailored by precise engineering of the photon density of states of…
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Nuclear Magnetic Resonance is an analytical technique to determine the purity of a sample and its molecular structure. It is used to infer basic structure of unknown compounds. It helps to determine phase changes, solubility, conformational exchange…
Making India a biotech hub Aim to develop India into a global innovation hub by 2020 and Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) has paved the way to deliver on that mandate. BIRAC Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) is…
Artificial Intelligence and Agriculture Artificial intelligence (AI) is silently but increasingly entering Indian agriculture and hence affecting our society at large. Even though machine learning (which is a subset of AI) has been used for classifications and prediction purposes for,…
GIANT METREWAVE RADIO TELESCOPE NCRA, a centre of the school of natural sciences of the TIFR, has set up a unique facility, the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope for radio astronomical research at metre wavelengths. GMRT is a very versatile instrument…