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Pune researchers fabricate a flexible nanogenerator for wearable electronics

R. Prasad The device produced 14 volts when thumb pressure was applied on it.

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New light on dark matter

Shubashree Desikan Dark matter is as mysterious as it sounds – very little is known about it, save that it makes up about 85 per cent of all the matter in the universe. Now, German and Hungarian scientists have thrown some light on a type of dark matter particle that has been postulated, known as the axion. They have established that axions can have a mass between 50 and 1500 micro electron volts, making them some ten billion times lighter than the electron. This computation has been published in the journal Natur

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3 win chemistry Nobel for world’s tiniest machines

AP Frenchman Jean-Pierre Sauvage, British-born Fraser Stoddart and Dutch scientist Bernard “Ben” Feringa share the prize for the “design and synthesis of molecular machines”

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Watch: Richard Feynman on how small can you make machinery

In 1959, Nobel laureate Richard Feynman gave a lecture titled “There's plenty of room at the bottom,” in which he posed a question: “Computing machines are very large, they fill rooms,” he said. “Why can't we make them very small, make them of little wires, little elements — and by little, I mean little.”Twenty five years later, on October 25, 1984, he gave that lecture again at an experimental seminar called idiosyncratic thinking. That lecture was titled “Tiny Machines”.Watch the legendary phy

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Of flatlands and threads: The Nobel Physics Prize 2016

Shubashree Desikan This year, the Nobel prize in physics has been awarded to David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz

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DEMYSTIFYING SCIENCE What is 47 Tucanae?47 Tucanae — also known as 47 Tuc — is the second brightest globular cluster in the night sky famous for spectacular sights in the

Astronomers to gather in Goa for science meet The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will hold its annual science meeting in Goa from Monday to Friday.The meeting is expected to be attended by almost

‘Blindly trying to protect something does not help the ecosystem.’ Mridula Srinivasan is a marine biologist, presently, she is chief of Protected Species Science Branch at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association,

NCBS researchers find a biomarker for stress-induced memory loss Timely intervention to prevent or delay hippocampus-linked memory loss that occurs as a result of chronic stress may now be possible, thanks to the di

Can a human live up to a thousand years? How long does an average human live? In 1900 the average life expectancy of humans across the world was 31 years, and today it is about 68. This impro

NASA completes construction of largest space telescope It’s 100 times powerful than the Hubble Space Telescope and may help in finding the first galaxies

Russia invites India to join fast reactor research project A fast neutron reactor, also known simply as a fast reactor, is a type in which nuclear fission chain reaction is sustained by fast neutrons

Indian muon trackers get a handle on solar storms The scientists identified a muon burst that correlated with a change in the earth’s magnetic field

Bizarre millipede species with 414 legs discovered Illacme tobini has many baffling features like a body covered in long silk-secreting hairs, and 4 legs that modify into penises.

Fossil study reveals long-necked dinosaur The discovery, along with a specimen of another sauropod called Diamantinasaurus matildae, was detailed in the Nature journal Scientific Reports.

India begins to drill into the Antarctic ice An Indo-Norwegian project to understand the response of Antarctic ice shelves to the global warming has begun in the less-studied areas of East Antarc

Paving the way to backpack-sized gravimetry A high degree of precision in measuring gravity comes in useful in many contexts — from minute measurements of plate tectonics and seismology to searc

CCMB scientists unravel skin colour genetics of Indians A study of skin colour of 1,167 people belonging to 27 ethnic groups living in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar found that social structure defined by the cast

Soon, glow-in-the-dark dye may power cars Ideal material for stockpiling energy in rechargeable, liquid-based batteries can likely power homes too.