Department of Science and Technology Archives

20 Nov

Teen from India calls for clean energy at COP26 meet

The News Horizon0 CommentsScience, State Newsatmosphere, carbon dioxide, coal, Department of Science and Technology, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam IGNITE Award, future, Glasgow, global, greenhouse gas, ironing cart, National Innovation Foundation, NIF, renewable energy, Scotland, solar, Tamil Nadu, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change

New Delhi, Nov 20: A 15-year-old girl from Tamil Nadu had exhorted the world to move towards clean energy during the recently concluded 26th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change at Glasgow, Scotland. “I am not here to speak about the future, I am the future,” she said, encouraging the world to move towards renewable energy. The leaders who had come from across the world to attend the global meet heard her with rapt attention not without a reason: she has been recognised as the Earthday Network Rising Star by Earthday Network, an international…

10 Jun

New technique to detect tropical cyclones earlier than satellites

The News Horizon0 CommentsScience, TechAtmospheric column, Bay of Bengal, Climate Change Program, Cyclones, Department of Science and Technology, DST, Eddy detection, IIT Kharagpur, IMD, Indian Institute of Technology, Indian Ocean region, MoES, Ocean, Remote sensing, Satellites, tropical

New Delhi: Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur have developed a technique that could be useful in the early detection of development or strengthening of tropical cyclones in the atmospheric column prior to satellites over ocean surface in the North Indian Ocean region. Researchers devise a novel method using Eddy detection technique to investigate the formative stages and advance detection time of tropical cyclogenesis in the North Indian Ocean region. This study has been conducted under the Climate Change Program (CCP) with the support from Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, an official statement said. Early detection of…

12 Apr

Accurate estimation of manufacturing variations can improve circuit performance

The News Horizon0 CommentsTechcircuit design, circuit performance, Department of Science and Technology, DST, IIT Bombay, IITBNF Lab, MHRD, software

New Delhi: Silicon-based electronic circuits are getting smaller. The Taiwanese manufacturer TSMC currently makes chips with the smallest feature of the circuit measuring just 7 nanometers, with millions of such components packed on a single chip. The process of manufacturing such ultra-dense circuits is complex. Despite world-class control, there are tiny fluctuations in the nanoscale dimensions. Thus, each transistor is slightly different from another across chips and even on the same chip. A circuit designer must account for such variations to ensure that each of the billions of chips produced works as expected. Thus, a model to account for such…

08 Apr

IIIT-Delhi to develop method to predict collision from space debris

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New Delhi: Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT)-Delhi receives research funding from National Super Computing Mission (NSM) under HPC Applications to work on the project titled ‘Orbit computation of Resident Space Objects for Space Situational Awareness’ for two years. The NSM project has been implemented by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India in collaboration with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeITy) to ensure the country’s leadership in supercomputing. Various R&D projects have been initiated under this mission across the country to harness the vast supercomputing resources provided under NSM, to build capabilities to tackle…

17 Mar

CSIR scientists develop sensor to monitor health status on the go

The News Horizon0 CommentsHealth & Fitness, Science, Techanalysis, biomarkers, chemical markers, circuit board, CSIR-CECRI, Department of Science and Technology, electrode, health, high-throughput, INSPIRE, Karaikudi, lactate, monitor, physiology, potassium, real-time, saliva, skin, sodium, supercapacitor, Tamil Nadu, tissues

New Delhi: A team of scientists at Council of Scientific and Industrial Research’s Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CSIR-CECRI), Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu, has developed a flexible low cost, wearable sensor that can monitor the health and physiological status of the human body on the go by just analysing the sweat. The microfluidic sensor can be used for on the spot monitoring of several biomarkers such as lactate, Sodium, and Potassium simultaneously from sweat samples. It analyses the biomarkers without any transfer of signals. The high-throughput sweat sampling ability of the sensor facilitates continuous capture and transport of the sweat over the…

11 Mar

Portal to provide all-inclusive information on SERB sanctioned projects

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New Delhi: Science and Engineering Board (SERB), a statutory body of the Department of Science and Technology (DST) with the mandate to plan, promote, and fund internationally competitive research in emerging areas, has set up a portal that offers real time information on the various research projects supported by it. Called ‘SERB – PRoject Information System & Management (SERB – PRISM)’, the e-platform will provide a whole range of information regarding all projects sanctioned by SERB from 2011 onwards, including funding details, status, research summary, and project output details such as publications and patents. Search facilities enable retrieval of information…