India needs a risk-based approach to food adulteration: Sukhvinder Pal Singh
Australia-based food-safety scientist Sukhvinder Pal Singh, whose roots hail from a family of farmers in Una, Himachal Pradesh, is a senior research scientist with the New South Wales Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, in Ourimbah. Fondly called SP Singh, at 46, he leads research on fresh-produce safety and traceability. His work following Australia’s deadly 2018 Listeria (bacteria […]
Unified Dashboard with AI and Single Sign-On, ETEducation
Gen education dept to launch unified dashboard for schools T’puram: The general education department will establish a unified dashboard with a single sign-on facility, giving schools access to key online education applications through one platform. The initiative, named Tharapadham, is part of the state govt’s 100-day action plan and will be implemented through Kerala Infrastructure […]
Science quiz: Scientific problems featuring cities
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West Bengal Boosts PM POSHAN Scheme to Serve 1 Lakh Students with Improved Midday Meals, ETEducation
West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari has said the coverage of improved-quality midday meals under the PM POSHAN scheme will be expanded to one lakh students from October 1, up from the current 45,000. In a post on X, Adhikari said the state was committed to ensuring “high-quality, […]
Maha panel seeks public feedback on new norms for private universities, ETEducation
Maharashtra has set up panel to examine conversion of aided colleges into private universities Pune: A committee constituted by the state higher and technical education department to recommend norms for establishing private universities in Maharashtra has invited feedback from educationists, institutions, students, parents, industry representatives and the public. Led by Bhushan Patwardhan, former chairperson of […]
Ways to conquer plastic waste and produce useful materials
Bundles of plastic waste after being segregated at Jothi Nagar Centre in Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu, on September 6. | Photo Credit: RAJESH N./The Hindu Since their synthesis by the chemist Leo Hendrik Baekeland and the explanation of their structure by Nobel laureate Hermann Staudinger, and their use since the 19th century, plastics have become convenient […]
Science For All Newsletter: Cities on the moon may run dry far faster than space barons think
As NASA and China speed up their lunar space programmes, a more-than-temporary human settlement on the moon inches closer to reality. Space agencies with these plans are targeting the moon’s south pole region, where permanently shadowed craters are supposed to hold large quantities of water ice, which a human base can use as a water […]
New cat species identified in Bolivia, first in over a century
A diminutive wild cat that inhabits Bolivia’s cloud forest has been identified as a previously unknown species, marking the first time a new living cat species has been formally named and described in more than a century. The cat, called Tilcayo by local communities, is part of a group called tiger cats found across much […]
Biotechnology and healthcare: where we are in India, and where we need to go
Biotechnology, when I was a student in the early 1970s, was test tubes, pipettes, culture plates and microscopes. Today, however, biotechnology is no longer just a laboratory discipline. It is a platform for technologies that power healthcare, agriculture, industrial manufacturing and environmental solutions. Biotechnology today is an integrated inter and multi-disciplinary science where biology has […]
New Wild Cat Species: Meet Tilcayo: The tiny wild cat discovered in Bolivia’s cloud forests after more than a century
A Leopardus tilcayo cat walks at the Senda Verde animal refuge in the Yungas region, Bolivia (Picture credit: Reuters) Scientists have identified a previously unknown species of wild cat in Bolivia’s cloud forests, marking the first time in more than a century that a new living cat species has been formally named and described.The cat, […]