Hyderabad: India Inc is yet to take an active part in conserving biodiversity of the country even though it is engaged in climate change programme, said Braulio F de Souza Dias, the executive secretary, Convention on Biodiversity, Canada. He hoped that the Conference of the Parties (COP 11) to the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD), scheduled […]
Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh): In yet another successful multiple satellite launch mission, India on Friday successfully put into orbit its own earth observation satellite Cartosat, nano satellite NIUSAT and 29 foreign satellites from 14 countries. The rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle’s (PSLV) main cargo was India’s 712 kg Cartosat-2 series satellite for earth observation with a […]
Nagpur: Science Express, the customised 16 coach AC train displaying the biodiversity and climate change, will be open for public viewing here for two days from September 30. The exhibition is a joint initiative of Department of Science & Technology (DST) and Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF), an official release said on Sunday. Since […]
New Delhi: With India moving ahead to implement satellite-based navigation system from next year, an industry expert has suggested this futuristic facility could be leased to neighbouring countries to help them navigate their air traffic. GAGAN (GPS Aided Geo Augmented Navigation) – the ambitious project jointly developed by Airports Authority of India (AAI) and Indian […]
Washington: US space agency NASA announced that its Kepler space telescope has discovered 219 new planet candidates outside our Solar System. “Of those, 10 are near-Earth size and orbiting in their star’s habitable zone, which is the range of distance from a star where liquid water could pool on the surface of a rocky planet […]
Bangalore: India’s communication satellite GSAT-10, slated to be launched early today, will now be launched on September 29 following a technical problem on board Ariane 5 launcher from the spaceport of Kourou in French Guiana. The spacecraft was originally slated to be launched early today, along with ASTRA 2F, but the lift-off was postponed a […]
New York: In a first, researchers have developed a robot that can write and play its own music compositions using artificial intelligence and deep learning. The robot — named Shimon — with four arms and eight sticks can play harmonies and chords on marimba. It also thinks much more like a human musician, focusing less […]
Washington: NASA said its Orion spacecraft, which will take astronauts to deep space destinations, did well in a key safety test. At the Promontory, Utah, facility of Orion subcontractor Orbital ATK, engineers tested the abort motor for Orion’s launch abort system (LAS) this week, firing the 17-foot tall motor for five seconds, NASA said. The […]
New York: NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission (MAVEN) that completed 1,000 Earth days in orbit around the Red Planet on Saturday has come up with multiple discoveries, revealing how the Sun stripped Mars of most of its atmosphere. MAVEN is the first spacecraft dedicated to understanding Mars’ upper atmosphere and began its primary […]
Bengaluru: IT major Infosys on Friday appointed Karmesh Vaswani as the Global Head of Retail, CPG and Logistics (RCL) and Nitesh Banga as Global Head of Manufacturing. Vaswani and Banga will replace Sandeep Dadlani, President and Head of MRCL, who is leaving the company. The new appointments will be effective from July 15. “I have […]
New Delhi: The Niti Aayog will set up 1,000 more Atal Tinkering Labs (ATL), meant to foster innovation, in schools across India by the end of this year to take their total number to around 1,500, a senior official said. The aim of ATLs is to “disrupt” the existing education system by fostering the spirit […]
Bengaluru: India-born and US-based Arun Netravali, former Bell Labs President, is the winner of the 2017 Marconi Prize for his pioneering work in digital video technology, used in mobile phones and television sets, announced the Marconi Society on Friday. “Netravali’s pioneering work on video compression standards served as the key base technology for MPEG (Moving […]
Washington: Finding signs of life on the earth-sized planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system and on Saturn’s moon Enceladus are among the science targets that NASA’s James Webb space telescope has following its launch and commissioning, mission officials have announced. These specific observations are part of a programme of Guaranteed Time Observations (GTO), which provides dedicated […]
New Delhi: With the monsoon finally settling in, Twitter on Friday launched a special blue umbrella emoji for its Indian users. The emoji went live on June 16 and will be active till August 31. “We want to celebrate the resilience of the country during the famed Indian monsoon and what better way to do […]
San Francisco: As the people have started questioning social media sites about their role in countering terrorism, Facebook said that it uses artificial intelligence (AI) to remove the terror-related content. The social media giant is currently focusing their techniques to combat terrorist content about Islamic State (IS), Al-Qaeda and their affiliates. “Although our use of […]
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