Solar system could have formed in the bubbles produced by a giant, long-dead star, which was 40 to 50 times the size of the sun according to Scientists in a study co-authored Nicolas Dauphas and Vikram Dwarkadas Professors at University of Chicago in the U.S. and published in the Astrophysical Journal which explains a new scenario that begins with a giant type of star called a Wolf-Rayet star.Continue Reading...
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Robocop Showcases Advance in Policing Technology
Robocop is a smart police robot who can take complaints, record audio and video clips, identify suspects, detect metals, and monitor temperature but is not yet capable of chasing down criminals. The policing robot conceived at Makers Leeway, the Start-up’s research lab, six months ago, has been made by H-BOTS, a Hyderabad-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning Start-up. Life siz...
PSLV-C40 & 30 Satellites Launch is another Milestone by ISRO
PSLV-C40, 710 kg Cartosat-2 Series Remote Sensing Satellite-Cartosat-2F along with 30 co-passenger satellites was successfully launched by ISRO’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle in its forty second flight on January 12, 2018 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota. This Cartosat-2F satellite was delivered successfully into orbit 503 kilometers above Earth and deployed a...
NASA Scientists Study Life Cycle of a Newly Created Island
Island of Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai formed in between December 2014 and January 2015 after a massive underwater volcanic eruption breached the surface, only about a mile long, is located about 400 miles southeast of Fiji in the Pacific. It was expected to wash away after a few months. Now, three years later, it's still here. NASA’s studies on the island presented at a meeting of the American Geo...
Interceptor Missile Hits & Destroys Incoming Missile into Fragments
Interceptor Missile’s direct hit on the target incoming Missile at an altitude of about 15 kilometres and destroying it into fragments on Thursday 28 December 2017 at around 09:45 AM after launch from Dr Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha is a spectacular success scored by the Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) System of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) that puts India i...
Imagine Reading by the Light of a Glowing Plant on Your Desk
Plants induced to give off dim light for 4 hours, by a team of scientists lead by Professor Michael Strano from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and University of California, by embedding specialized nanoparticles into the leaves of the Watercress (Nasturtium officinale), a major step towards realising their vision of using plants to illumina...
‘GalMobile’ Water Desalination Technology Can Solve India’s Water Crisis
Mobile Water Desalination Technology known as ‘GalMobile’, the ‘Buggy Jeep’, the first of its kind in the World, is a sea water purification machine, which will be a special gift that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presents to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on his visit to India on January 14, 2018. Netanyahu had showed off a de...
Net Neutrality to Ensure Internet Remains an Open & Free Platform
Net Neutrality got a strong support when Ram Sewak Sharma, Chairman Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), while issuing a series of recommendations on net neutrality rules on November 28, 2017, stated that India has a huge population; huge things are going to happen on the internet. It is important that to keep this open. TRAI seeks to bar any practice where selected content is blocked, ...
Seaplanes to Bring Remotest Areas into Aviation Network
Seaplane on which Prime Minister Narendra Modi took flight from Sabarmati River in Ahmedabad to the Dharoi Dam in Mehsana District to pray at nearby Ambaji Temple on 12 December 2017 is a single-engine powered fixed-wing aircraft that needs no runway, is capable of taking off and landing on water, having a capacity for 14 passengers, purported to be the first of its kind in India, brought to Guj...
Dassault Reliance Aerospace for Future Needs of Indian Armed Forces
Dassault Reliance Aerospace Limited (DRAL) manufacturing facility - foundation laying ceremony was held on Friday 27 October 2017, at ₹6,500 crore-spread over 289 acres, Dhirubhai Ambani Aerospace Park (DAAP), Mihan SEZ, near Nagpur Airport in Maharashtra. The Foundation Stone was laid by Eric Trappier, Chairman of Dassault Aviation and Anil D. Ambani, Chairman of the Reliance Group in the prese...