A new open-source satellite tool has revealed the critical ecological and economic importance of India’s Open Natural Ecosystems, challenging the colonial-era classification of these biodiversity hotspots as unproductive wastelands.

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Researchers from the IDFC Institute, look into the sustainability of the current definition of “urban” in India.

Researchers from Biodiversity International and collaborators from Norway, Nicaragua, Italy, Ethiopia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Germany, and India have described how participation of farmers as citizen scientists can help to address this challenge.

 

केन्द्रीय आयुर्वेदीय विज्ञान अनुसंधान परिषद् (सीसीआरएएस) यांनी नुकत्याच जाहीर केलेल्या आयुष पुरस्कारांमध्ये भारतीय तंत्रज्ञान संस्था, मुंबई येथील एका गटाला दोन प्रतिष्ठित पुरस्कार मिळाले आहेत. केन्द्रीय आयुर्वेदीय विज्ञान अनुसंधान परिषद् ही आयुष  (आयुर्वेद, योग आणि नैसर्गिक चिकित्सा, युनानी, सिद्ध आणि होमिओपॅथी) मंत्रालयाची स्वायत्त संस्था आहे.

IIT Bombay researchers develop techniques to make tiny, inexpensive lenses that can be used on smartphones.

 

Researchers from Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai, SASTRA University, Thanjavur and Elite School of Optometry, Chennai have studied how the environmental factors of a classroom affect a student’s clarity of vision.

हम सभी एक विमान में हैं और अचानक विमान चालक आपको 'विक्षोभ या टर्बुलेन्स ' के कारण अपनी सीट बेल्ट को बाँधने के लिए कहता है। यद्यपि आप इस ‘विक्षोभ’ के कारण कुछ झटकों का अनुभव कर सकते हैं, लेकिन आप इसके बारे में शायद ज़्यादा न सोचे । ‘विक्षोभ’ वायु के अस्थिर एवं अस्त-व्यस्त प्रवाह के लिए एक तकनीकी शब्द है । विक्षोभ या टर्बुलेन्ट प्रवाह  हर जगह पाए जाते हैं - सितारो

The sunscreen lotion is supposedly a magic wand we are always advised to use when going out to protects us from sunburns. However, do we know why we get sunburns? Do we understand the science of sunburn?

Report suggests that the Hindu Kush Himalayan region is facing imminent threat due to climate change.

A mother and the child need proper nutrition during and after pregnancy. India has 71 million undernourished women of childbearing age and we need to pay immediate attention to this problem.

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