In 2012, Ministry of Environment & Forests released a circular that makes it mandatory for companies to incorporate an environmental responsibility policy document in their applications while seeking...
Tight oil should not be confused with oil shale, which contains kerogen. Kerogen is a heavy mixture of organic chemical compounds, the soluble part of which is known...
Tight oil is a light hydrocarbon contained in petroleum-bearing shale formations that have relatively low porosity and permeability. Tight oil is extracted at depths of 2 to 3...
In late 1990s, a Texan oilman, George Mitchell, developed an affordable way to extract natural gas / tight oil locked up in shale rock and other geological formations....
Multiple Sclerosis is an auto-immune disorder where the body’s own immune system attacks itself. One of the first areas to get affected is the myelin sheath, the layer...
CryoSat-2 is a radar spacecraft, launched in 2010. Scientists have spent the past two years getting to grips with its data. Recently (April 2012), they have reported that...
Juice Mission is the name of a proposed mission to study Jupiter’s icy moons. The Juice (JUpiter ICy moon Explorer) proposal envisages an instrument-packed, near five-tonne satellite at...
The Snowball Earth hypothesis posits that the Earth’s surface became entirely or nearly entirely frozen at least once, some time earlier than 650 Ma (million years ago). View...
The bioinformatics resources and applications facility (BRAF) of the centre for development of advanced computing (C-DAC) has developed a supercomputing cluster called as biochrome to aid computational biology...
