Technology

The government, last month amended norms to allow full-fledged Internet telephone services, which will enable calls from app to app as well as from an app to a telephone number.

We talk with the co-founders of Ather Enegy to learn what sets them apart from other electric vehicle manufactures. And we have some amazing insight.s

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.

Bitcoin, and other cryptocurrencies cannot be paid for using the systems and portals of Indian banks, according to RBI rules.

Yogesh Sahu and Rajnish Bajpai decided to revolutionalise the village in UP by empowering the residents with mobile technology and Internet of Things (IoT).

"... the Crew Escape System along with crew module soared skyward, then arced out over the Bay of Bengal and floated back to Earth under its parachutes about 2.9 km from Sriharikota.”

The App is based on authentic and well researched India-specific databases and uses guidelines prescribed by ICMR.

By studying the anatomy of the mosquito namely proboscis--the elongated sucking mouthpart--scientists have now identified how mosquitoes jab their mouth onto their victims with considerably no pain.