With automotive manufacturers striving to match stricter emission norms set by regulatory authorities, they have begun considering nanotechnology as a necessity.
The payloads to be carried by India's second unmanned moon mission Chandrayaan-2 targeted for launch in 2013 were announced on Monday and there will be seven onboard instruments for a range of lunar experiments.
Quantum cryptography is based on the principle that you cannot make measurements of a quantum system without disturbing it.
FDA inspectors visited the Mohali plant in the process of giving approval to Ranbaxy's application for Valsartan.
On introduction of new technologies, Daimler manager (emission) Michael Anger said the company has introduced a diesel filter in Europe to reduce emission of harmful particles from its cars.
The company was indicted for violations at one of its US facilities in 2009, even after Daiichi Sankyo took over as majority shareholder in 2008.
In what could eliminate the risk of sensitive information falling into the wrong hands, scientists have discovered a new way to send secure messages which can only be read by someone at an agreed location.
The country's nuclear regulator virtually junked the findings of an international advocacy group on high levels of radiation in Mayapuri scrap market in New Delhi. In a statement, the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board admitted there was some contamination in local spots but it could not pose any health detriment.
He said the aim should be to increase the total R&D spending as a percentage of the GDP to two per cent by the end of the 12th Plan period from the current level of about 0.9 per cent.
The spacecraft -- Ikaros -- would be launched into the space next month for a six-month mission during which it would head towards Venus.
'Our body functions in a particular system. We pass urine. We pass motions. We swallow food. We drink water. We breathe properly.' 'If there is an obstruction to any of these things -- difficulty swallowing, difficulty passing urine, passing blood in the urine, passing blood in the stools or severe pain anywhere, lasting for more than a month, or for example the skin, which covers our body, has a few moles that start increasing or bleeding... then you need to see a specialist.'
The most confusing acronym for the decade was SOA (Service Oriented Architecture).
Scientists at the American space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration have claimed that Saturn's moon Enceladus 'may contain life,' after they discovered new evidence suggesting presence of 'liquid water' beneath its surface.
Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office Prithviraj Chavan said sending a spacecraft to Mars would help in understanding the evolution of the planet by studying the Martian atmosphere and ionosphere.
A team of researchers, including a group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has developed what is called a "cocktail" of extremely tiny particles that work in concert in the bloodstream to locate, stick and kill cancerous tumors.
Albert Einstein's 1905 theory of relativity is one of the most fundamental pillars of physics - but now scientists say his conclusion that nothing can travel faster than light could be proven wrong.
The Tata group has done yet another Nano -- this time in the water purifier segment. Group company Tata Chemicals on Monday launched a compact water purifier, called 'Swach', which means clean in Hindi.
Nearly two decades after he invented the world wide web, British scientist Sir Tim Berners -Lee has admitted that "forward slashes" in Internet addresses "were a mistake".
India's own Moon Impact Probe on board the country's maiden unmanned lunar craft Chandrayaan-I had also detected evidence of water on the moon in a finding confirmed by US space agency NASA which too had an instrument onboard Chandrayaan-I.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration astronaut Colonel Michael (Mike) Fincke, a veteran of two space expeditions of total duration of over 365 days, on Friday termed the Indian Space Research Organisation's Chandrayaan-1 mission a grand success, despite the abrupt end to the mission due to a technical problem.
With Mumbai receiving poor rainfall in catchment areas in 2009, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has been carrying out cloud seeding operations at Tansa lake.
Mumbai-based Ajanta Pharma has tied up with the Canadian vaccine maker, Medicago Inc, to commercialise Medicago's pandemic and seasonal influenza vaccines in India and other territories.
This child prodigy tells George Joseph that he wants to be a scientist; discover something big.
According to McAfee security experts, Internet domain registrations mentioning the word 'swine' have gone up, ndicating a rise in malicious sites that take advantage of the scare. A new site offers a dodgy 'Swine Flu Prevention Guide' for $19.95, Mcafee says, while another company claims H1N1 cure that works in 12 hours, the report says.
B K Tyagi, director of the Madurai-based Centre for Research in Medical Entomology, talks with Rediff.com's Shobha Warrier about how dengue fever can be controlled.
13 out of the world's 20 most polluted cities are in India. Most shockingly, the latest Central Pollution Control Board statistics reveal that the pollution levels in Gwalior, Raipur and even little known Kashipur are higher than that of Delhi which means we have some of the most polluted zones in the world.
The first gamma-ray burst to be seen in high-resolution from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is one for the record books. The blast had the greatest total energy, the fastest motions and the highest-energy initial emissions ever seen.Gamma-ray bursts are the universe's most luminous explosions. Astronomers believe most occur when exotic massive stars run out of nuclear fuel.
Winners of the 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year.
Explaining the mission, the agency, NASA on Sunday said just as an impressionist artist makes an image from countless tiny strokes of paint, IBEX will build an image of the outer boundary of the solar system from impacts on the spacecraft by high-speed particles called energetic neutral atoms.
Snow falling from the Martian clouds have been detected by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, with possibilities of it even reaching the planet's surface. Laser instruments on the lander have detected the snow clouds about 2.5 miles above the spacecraft's landing site and also followed its precipitation.
China has banned the import of a particular batch of 'Gentlease infant milk powder' produced by a US-based company since it contained unidentified metal particles.
India has made major scientific and technological contribution to this new atom smasher also called the Large Hadron Collider. LHC is expected to answer several facts of fundamental nature of the universe that remains a mystery, said the scientists of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.
Mumbai, Pune, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and Patna are among 16 cities in the country where old vehicles will soon be phased out. The phase-out will extend to private and commercial vehicles.
'Dogs may increase airborne particles that would encourage inflammation and thereby alter upper airway anatomy early in life, causing an increased susceptibility for adult snoring,' said lead researcher Karl Franklin of University Hospital Ume.
An international team has carried out the study and found that smoke from vessels at sea or in port is affecting the air quality of many coastal cities across the world, which in turn is harming the health of many beach walkers. According to researchers, 'primary sulphate' in ship emissions, consisting of tiny sulphur particles less than 1.5 microns across, when breathed in, can harm the lungs posing a serious health hazard, the Daily Mail reported.
Medical science would also derive huge benefits from use of nanotechnology as detection and treatment of serious diseases like Aids and cancer would be easier. With increasing importance of power generation through non-conventional energy sources, Nano technology would be of great help as it could considerably increase the capacity of photovoltaic cells -- to generate electricity by solar power.
According to a report in Discovery News, though scientists have studied the sun by sending probes to unravel its 11-year cycles, watching its outbursts and measuring how its winds shape the outer edges of the solar system, no spacecraft has been able to enter the its atmosphere as yet.
A scientist is adapting Indian and African road techniques to improve asphalt in various ways by developing cold mixtures that blend polymers or plastics with crude oil-derived asphalt.
The robotic arm of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has delivered a partial scoopful of clumpy Martian soil to the oven on its Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer instrument, or TEGA. TEGA has eight separate tiny ovens to bake and sniff the soil to assess its volatile ingredients, such as water.
The musician who wrote 'We Will Rock You' went from the school of rock to graduate studies in astrophysics. He emerged with a book on the history of the universe and insight into interplanetary dust.
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