New polymer material for the packaging industry
A team of Indian scientists has developed an environment-friendly, non-toxic, biodegradable polymer that could be used as a packaging material...
Consortium to develop next-gen space technologies
Indian Institute of Technology-Madras’s IITM Pravartak Technologies Foundation is all set to collaborate with five start-ups to develop technologies for...
A new water repellent material for improved wearable motion sensors
Physiological monitoring of human movement for applications such as gait analysis, and monitoring of patients during rehabilitation processes could soon...
IIT Delhi launches new online platform to facilitate researchers
As part of an effort to boost the research ecosystem at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, the Central...
Newly devised sensor can detect explosives swiftly
In a development that could be of immense use in criminal investigations, Indian scientists have come up with a thermally...
Researchers devise method to tackle COVID-19 PPE waste
Researchers from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)’s Pune-based National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), and...
DBT Institute to help Vietnamese company develop COVID vaccine
After helping several Indian companies in the development of vaccines for COVID-19 including clinical trials, the Department of Biotechnology (DBT)’s...
India’s rural Job scheme could also help sequester carbon
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) launched in 2006 to ensure livelihood security of rural people can...
Researchers develop super-hydrophobic Cotton for oil-spill cleanup
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati, have developed a new class of super-hydrophobic cotton composite with Metal-Organic...
Jurassic-age shark’s teeth discovered from Jaisalmer basin
In a rare discovery, researchers have found evidence of a new species of an extinct group of sharks called hybodont...