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The scientists at INMAS develops India’s first indigenous anti-nuclear medical kit

The scientist at INMAS claim to have developed India’s first indigenous medical kit that may ensure protection from serious injuries and faster healing of wounds resulting from nuclear...

September 16, 2018

Baryons and Omega C-0 Particles

In March 2017, five new sub-atomic particles were discovered by Large Hadron Collider scientists at CERN. These particles have been collectively called Omega C0 and have been named...

May 19, 2018

Cold Fusion

Cold Fusion is a hypothesized type of nuclear reaction that would occur at, or near, room temperature. Interaction of hydrogen or deuterium gas with metals such as palladium, Zirconium, Nickel is claimed...

May 2, 2018

Rydberg Polarons

An international team of physicists have successfully created a giant atom and filled it with ordinary atoms, creating a new state of matter termed Rydberg polarons. The atoms...

May 2, 2018

Time Crystals

A time-crystal or a space-crystal is basically an open system which shows time translation symmetry breaking (TTSB). The concept was first proposed by the Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek...

May 2, 2018

Gravitational Lensing

Normal lenses such as the ones used in a magnifying glass or a pair of spectacles bends the light rays that pass through them by refraction and focuses...

May 1, 2018

HAMMER Spacecraft

HAMMER stands for Hypervelocity Asteroid Mitigation Mission for Emergency Response. It is a nuclear spacecraft made by a joint venture between NASA, the US National Security Administration and...

April 24, 2018

Graphene

Graphene is one of the thinnest, strongest two dimensional materials. Graphene is a two dimensional material consisting of a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb...

April 13, 2018

Hyperspectral Imaging Satellite

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is planning to launch a full-fledged niche Earth observation (EO) satellite — called the Hyperspectral Imaging Satellite (HySIS). The HySIS satellite has critical chip...

April 12, 2018

Committee on Public Credit Registry (PCR)

The Reserve Bank of India has constituted a 10-member ‘High Level Task Force on Phublic Credit Registry (PCR) for India’, which will, among other things, suggest a roadmap...

April 12, 2018

Jeevan Bindi

It is medically enhanced version of regular bindi, embedded with iodine. It delivers the daily requirement of iodine i.e., 100-150 micro grams, absorption through the skin.  These are...

April 12, 2018

Breakthrough Listen Project (BLP)

BLP is US$100-million global astronomical initiative launched in 2015 by Internet investor Yuri Milner and cosmologist Stephen Hawking. It has teams from around the world to find signs...

April 12, 2018

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