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IIT Bombay study proposal to account for ecological sensitivity to help developmental and planning authorities.

A new addition to the list of endemic reptiles is a rock-dwelling gecko named Hemidactylus paaragowli, discovered in the hills of Kerala. 

IIT Bombay student has won the Gandhian Young Technological Innovation (GYTI) Award for window-mounted solar cooker design

ಮನುಷ್ಯರ ಸಮಾಜದಲ್ಲಿ ಇರುವ ಜಾತಿಭೇದವು ಪ್ರಾಣಿ ಜಗತ್ತಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಇಲ್ಲ ಎಂದರೆ ನಂಬುತ್ತೀರಾ? ಇಲ್ಲಿ ನಾವು ಹೇಳಹೊರಟಿರುವುದು ಪ್ರಭೇದಗಳ ಗಡಿಯ ಆಚೆಗೂ ಗೆಳೆತನ ವಿಸ್ತರಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವ ಪ್ರಾಣಿಗಳ ಬಗ್ಗೆ.

A study in IIT Bombay can help determine properties of substances at the molecular level. 

Imagine streaming a movie through your tube light or accessing the Internet through a street lamp. Light Fidelity (Li-Fi), a new communication system developed by Professor Harald Hass, can actually achieve this!

In a recently published study, the researchers have taken the first step of scientifically naming the fish as Tor remadevii, with a hope of reviving its numbers.  

After graphene, carbon nanocones are now an exciting form of carbon for material scientists. As the name suggests, they are conical structures made up of carbon, where graphene sheets are folded like a party cap with a height and diameter of a few nanometers (1 nanometer = 1/1,000,000,000th of a metre).

In a recent study, scientists from the Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, have identified factors that affect the dispersal patterns of fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster).

Researchers from National Institute of Oceanography, Goa have studied seasonal distribution of single celled organisms with shells known as forams or foraminifera, in the mudbanks of Allepy, Kerala. The study was conducted to understand the response of forams to physical and chemical changes in the environment associated with the mudbank formation.