Govt. questions WhatsApp after spyware is used for snooping
Union Government has sought an explanation from messaging platform WhatsApp after the Facebook-owned company confirmed that some Indian users of its app came under surveillance using an Israeli spyware.
FAS Tags will work as Aadhaar to track vehicles, says Nitin Gadkari
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Monday called FASTags- a device to make automatic payments at toll booths-the equivalent of Aadhaar for vehicles, which will allow the government to track their movement across the country.
Chemistry Nobel goes to three scientists for developing lithium-ion batteries
The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry will be awarded to John D. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino for the development of lithium-ion batteries, the Nobel Committee said on Wednesday.
Canadian-American, Swiss star gazers win Physics Nobel
A Canadian-American cosmologist and two Swiss scientists won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for exploring the evolution of the universe and discovering a new kind of planet, with implications for that nagging question: Does life exist only on earth?
IGIB finds a protein with better precision in gene-editing
Researchers at the Delhi-based Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB) have discovered a protein variant from a different species of bacteria that can edit the DNA with very high precision
IISER Pune team synthesises photo-catalyst to degrade organic pollutants
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune have successfully converted the highly unstable perovskite into a highly stable photo-catalyst capable of decomposing toxic organic pollutants commonly present in water
U.K. particle accelerator could reveal secrets of ancient scrolls
A leading science facility in the English countryside is helping in a bid to decipher Romanera scrolls carbonised in the deadly eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago.
Cutting off power in an accident is key in Electric Vehicles
German automobile Bosch has introduced innovative devices that can prevent electric shock when EVs are involved in accidents
Cement firms to use plastic waste for fuel in Meghalaya
The Meghalaya government has signed an agreement with a major cement firm for buying plastic waste to be used as fuel instead of coal for producing clinkers.
IAU names asteroid after PanditJasraj
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has named an asteroid, discovered in 2006, after Indian classical singer PanditJasraj.