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20 Nov

Teen from India calls for clean energy at COP26 meet

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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…

Aerial Holic – The Man Who Is Blessed with Bird’s Eye View

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Salem, Tamil Nadu [India]: Dhenesh Annamalai is a Salem based aerial photographer whose works has amazed thousands of people from all over the world. Imagine a moment of viewing the Earth’s surface, it’s terrestrial features, and the unseen beauty of our land from the sky. Aerial photography pens down such incredible pictures that we have never seen or imagined before. It captures the massive terrestrial land surfaces with flying objects like aircraft, balloons, spacecraft, Drones, etc., Dhenesh Annamalai, a civil engineer and a passionate photographer brings out the amazing aerial photographs of various places of Tamil Nadu. His aerial clicks…

CSIR scientists develop sensor to monitor health status on the go

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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…