Science

How many of us still pick up the morning paper? And how many of us have managed to inculcate that habit in our children?

It was during a field visit across the barren stretches of Kutch Basin in 2011 that Dr Ansuya Bhandari and her team stumbled upon a fossilised upper jaw of an ape.

Awarded the Padma Shri (1982), Padma Bhushan (1992) and Padma Vibhushan (2000), there is very little this celebrated scientist hasn't attained in the domain of space, scientific research and academia.

A study carried out in January 2018 set out to answer whether the composition of banana peels could find application in the nutraceutical and pharmaceutical industries

Interestingly, a study of this scale has never been previously undertaken by the country, except for the genome sequencing of an Indian in 2009, which made India one amongst the only six countries in the world to have achieved such a feat.

There are rare platinum deposits, amongst other elements in Assam.

An institution builder in the truest of sense, SP Agharkar was a man ahead of his times. But despite his immense contribution to Indian science, few know about him.

The experimental kits distributed by LIFE Labs were mostly made of plastic, and last year, at a team meeting, it was revealed that 700 kg of plastic waste was being generated by the organisation, every year.

Though there are already technology present to control the cockroaches, the microcircuit developed here offers a great degree of freedom in movement than conventional designed ones.

From powering entire villages to inventing new safety devices, for 60 years now, IIT-Madras has been at the forefront of change. Here's a look!