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'What a (Ra)man he was! his light continues to illuminate': Jairam Ramesh hails CV Raman on birth anniversaryPaying tribute to Nobel laureate and physicist C V Raman on his birth anniversary, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh hailed the contributions o...
I used to dream about big things, about being at NASA: Goutam ChattopadhyayGoutam Chattopadhyay, senior research scientist at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA, speaks about his humble start, the work that interests ...
Narinder Kapany: Unsung hero who coined term 'fibre optics' and touched billions of livesKapany, 94, who passed away peacefully in California, has been awarded Padma Vibhushan posthumously.
How India is contributing in development of new-age computersWhoever develops the new-age computer, which has the ability to do an extraordinary amount of calculations simultaneously, will have the ed...
Meet this chief architect of Mysore, who was the original green builderThe German architect Otto Koenigsberger designed buildings, many for IISc, in the 1940s.
Will India be among the top 3 nations in science output by 2030?In the last 10 years, many Indian scientists have faced a situation like that of Roy that was probably unimaginable a decade ago: an abunda...
Retired IISc professor fights for ruined Puttenahalli lakeIt was in June 2014 that the 24-acre Puttenahalli lake in Bengaluru North was declared a Bird Conservation Reserve under the Wildlife Prote...
Predicting the rains, despite the many scientific advances, continues to stump the weathermenOver the last decade, meteorologists have added a few more puzzling phenomena to their list of things that have to be explained by physics.
India and China’s chalk and cheese approach to science“Chinese dominance in strategic technology has come by design and not by chance,” says VS Ramamurthy, emeritus professor at the NIAS in Ben...
The odds of foretelling rains: Why monsoon prediction is hard, and why it could soon improveAll current methods fail in predicting extreme events that cause droughts and floods, and predicting them is one of the real objectives of ...
How a patient decided to fight diabetes by starting a company to make monitoring products for the diseaseBhat and Vinay - along with a former colleague - have started a company to make diabetes monitoring products, which IISc assesses to have b...
Here's why many top research labs like CSIR and others have ad hoc leadersThere were objections from the government, but the differences were sorted out quickly and Kumar took over as director on August 1 last yea...
How IISc professor's hybrid supercapacitor can store electricity & run electric cars in futureEnergy policies have a tint of legacy, as they have not been framed considering renewable energy and storage in mind.
How IISc professor's hybrid supercapacitor can store electricity & run electric cars in futureEnergy policies have a tint of legacy, as they have not been framed considering renewable energy and storage in mind.
Tomorrow’s engineers will learn architecture, anthropology, sociology as wellTwenty-first century engineers belong to a different league. They are no longer mechanical, electrical, chemical or computer engineers.
- BixLight to meet long-standing need aiding research in drug discovery, weather forecasting
BixLight is a network node that provides a 2 Gbps link to international databases, half of it through Singapore and the other half through ...
The effect of short supply of world-class mathematicians felt in Indian R&D workWorld-class mathematicians are in short supply, and the effect is felt in Indian R&D work. Hope now rests on newish institutes that are att...