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Robo Plant: Technology to interact with plants
The scientists from Singapore have developed a technology to interact with plants. The technology has been named as “Robo Plant”. About the Robo Plant Technology The technology helps to control the plants using smart phone applications. In future, this technology can be further used to enable farmers to detect diseases in plants. The plants can ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2021
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: Agriculture • Biomedical Research • Diseases • Farmers • plant diseases • Research • Robo Plant • Singapore
GOI launches three AYUSH based Researches
On May 6, 2020, the Ministry of AYUSH launched three studies related to COVID-19. The researches will help in studying impacts of AYUSH based prophylactic interventions in preventing COVID-19. (Prophylactic means intended to prevent diseases). Task Force The interdisciplinary AYUSH R&D Task Force has framed a protocol for prophylactic studies. The task force consists of ..
Month: Current Affairs - May, 2020
Category: India Nation & States Current Affairs
Topics: Ayurveda • Ayush • COVID-19 • Data • mobile application • Research • Research and Development
Fitness trade-offs linked to population size in E. coli
Scientists at IISER, Pune, have discovered a link between population sizes of Escherichia coli bacteria with the fitness trade-off adopted by them. Escherichia coli Escherichia coli is a bacterial species commonly found in the gut of humans and several animals. It is a rod shaped, gram negative bacteria that are mostly harmless in nature. However, ..
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: Escherichia coli • Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) • Research
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) tops in Nature Ranking Index-2020
The CSIR of Delhi topped the National Ranking Index 2020 that ranks the scientific research institutes. CSIR was followed by IISc Bangalore. Highlights The Rankings were provided based on the numbers of research output. It is indicated by total citations in numbers. It also includes shares, that is the sharing percentage of an article. The ..
Month: Current Affairs - February, 2020
Category: Reports & Indexes Current Affairs
Topics: Chemistry • CSIR • Environment • IISc Bangalore • IIT Delhi • IIT Guwahati • IIT-Madras • Physics • Research • Technology
India to set up Maritime Research Coordination Centre in Sri Lanka
On January 19, 2020, Indian National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval met Sri Lankan President Gotbaya Rajpaksa. He discussed setting up of maritime research coordination centre in the country. The establishment of research centre is important to learn maritime activities in the Indian Ocean Region. Highlights The Sri Lankan President and the Indian NSA discussed ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2020
Category: International / World Current Affairs
Topics: Fisheries • fisheries sector • India-Sri Lanka • Maritime Cooperation • maritime issues • maritime security • Maritime Surveillance • Maritime Trade • Maritime transport • Research
JNU signs MoU with IIT Delhi for Research, Technology Development
The two premier institutions, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and IIT Delhi inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for cooperation in research, education and technology developments in science and other disciplines. Key Highlights of MoU MoU Objective: To recognise each other’s strengths and co-operate in research, education and technology developments in disciplines of science, engineering, management ..
Month: Current Affairs - September, 2019
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: IIT Delhi • Jawaharlal Nehru University • Memorandum of understanding • Research • Technology development