Science

In a country where, even today, a majority of parents want their children to either be engineers or doctors, the scope of being a scientist is rather bleak. Space Kidz provides students with a platform where they can explore science freely, without the pressures of academics.

The Better India talked to Dr Shanthanu Chakravarthy, a doctoral scholar at IISc, who pursued the design, prototyping, control, haptics, and simulation of an endoscopy simulator.

Scientists from the University of British Columbia (UBC), which includes one of Indian origin, have now developed a cheaper and sustainable method to build solar cells using bacteria.

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Among the earliest generations of Indian women to study at a modern science institution, Violet Bajaj lived through incredible times – World War II and India’s struggle for independence – in her twenties!

Called GROWTH-India, the facility at Hanle is part of a multi-country collaborative initiative known as ‘Global Relay of Observatories Watching Transients Happen’ (GROWTH) to observe transient events in the universe.

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have used sand along with the seeds to create a viable water purification system.

Like a scene out of a comic book, scientists at the institution’s Facilitation Centre for Industrial Plasma Technologies (FCIPT) in Gandhinagar, treated normal water with non-thermal plasma.

These women, doing wonders in various fields have shown great promise. Standing shoulder to shoulder with other great women is Priyanka Joshi, a 29-year-old biochemist, originally from India.

The proprietary chemical developed by the research group is an organic chemical based on olefins. It helps bind the polymer and fibre materials to form the composites.