Science

"Sirkar belonged to that group of scientists who may not have made discoveries or inventions but influenced the development of science in India by training a number of students."

“I can truly say that [but] for Dr. Bhatnagar you could not have seen today the chain of national laboratories”, once said Nehru about the ‘Father of India’s Research Laboratories’. He was not wrong.

It all started in 2016 when as students of Indraprastha Vidyalaya, Aman and Nachiketh presented a project at the regional competition of the Indian Science and Engineering Fair.

“To minimise the use of petroleum-based plastics, there has been an increase in the research to develop biodegradable packaging materials using natural agro-based polymers.”

From HAL to ISRO, IISc's enormously talented scientists played pivotal roles in building India’s aerospace programme. This is their story.

Here is a collection of 15 such stories that gives a glimpse of important developments reported by Indian scientists during the year.

Interestingly, neem tree is a storehouse of so many useful chemicals that it is popularly called the ‘Village Pharmacy’ of South Asia!

Scarily, a NITI Aayog report earlier this year stated that 70% of India's water supply is "contaminated". The time for waiting is over.

In their initial proof-of-concept testing, the researchers have managed to lower the temperature inside their device by six degrees Celsius, when compared to the temperature outside.

“HysIS is an earth observation satellite developed by ISRO. It is the primary satellite of the PSLV-C43 mission. The satellite will be placed in 636 km polar sun-synchronous orbit (SSO) with an inclination of 97.957 deg.”