Covid-19 DEEKSHAK- A look into the future of Online Classrooms With the global pandemic taking classrooms from schools and colleges to the internet, a team of researchers from IIT Kharagpur may just have a solution to the perceived dearth of conferencing software optimised for the classroom environment.
IIT Kharagpur The SELCO Journey-Transforming 'Thelawalas' into Entrepreneurs Building an ecosystem with sustainable energy innovations. Recognizing skill in rural areas and providing the infrastructure to grow. Changing lives without resorting to ruthless capitalism.
IIT Madras Shooting to the sky: IITM Team builds a Rocket The story of a group of enthusiastic rocketeers from IIT Madras. With ambitions as high as the sky they are soon to fly to New Mexico to be part of the famed Spaceport America Cup.
IIT Kharagpur Automated Aquaponics System: Smart Farming for the Changing Climate A backyard automated aquaponics system developed at IIT Kharagpur by Professor Aditya Bandopadhyay and his team, perfect for small scale organic farming is poised to solve many challenges the world faces in the agriculture and environment sector.
Space SpaceX launches astronauts to ISS: Dawn of a new space age? The Dragon Crew was launched aboard the Falcon-9 rocket for a 64-day trip to the ISS, marking the beginning of NASA's commercial crew program, an effort to partner with private enterprises.
cyber security How is our data secured? 175 zettabyte. That's the amount of data expected to be present in the internet by 2025, but is this data secured? There have been various hacks and attempts to steal this data. Thus, companies adopt various steps to keep our data secured.
Space NASA'S Mars Helicopter: "Ingenious" enough to explore the Red Planet When NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover will launch on July 30 this year, an innovative experiment will ride along: the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter with some outsize ambitions. This will be the first time in history when an artificial body will be lifted on any other planet.
IIT Roorkee Log 9 Materials: Unleashing the benefits of Nanotech & Graphene Log 9 materials, founded by IIT Roorkee alumni, is a nanotechnology company which focuses on 100% green renewable energy and filtration applications of Graphene.
IIT Indore From pepper to particle: Revolutionising Nanotechnology Nanoparticles synthesized with the use of a plant extract discovered to have fascinating applications in the biomedical industry
IIT Bombay Using the Stars for Guidance: IIT-B Satellite Team innovates The story of Satellite Program, IIT Bombay - their achievements till date, followed by the development of their latest innovation: STADS.
Covid-19 Life, livelihood, and learning: What higher education will look like in the wake of Covid-19 In the midst of the current Pandemic students, researchers and professors must continue to operate as well as possible. We present a brief look into some of the problems they are facing and how Universities are trying to address them.
Electric Vehicles The Ather Trinity: Part 2 - What makes them, them Ather Energy has started out in making an entire ecosystem that defines the product they’re selling, and gives the consumer the fancies of an Electric Vehicle future - all of this while sticking to their vision of arriving at the best product through rigorous in house engineering techniques.
IIT Kanpur Contact Tracing and Fake News Verification Chatbot IIT Kanpur's solution in fighting the false news during a global pandemic when fake news can be disastrous.
IIT Madras The Ather Trinity: Part 1 - The Indian Electric Vehicle Bottleneck and a startup's unique solution With the increasing need for electric vehicles, startups like Ather Energy have come to the fore.
IIT Indore From Planetary Rovers to Microsurgeries–Soft Robotics: Shaping the Future Read how IIT Indore has created a robotic jellyfish to observe marine life and IIT Delhi and Madras has utilized the concept of soft robotics to implement human robot interaction.
Tech The Dating Paradigm - AI and much more Resurgence of long-lost AI methods combined with the flurry of data now easily accessible to Tech Giants is poised to revolutionize the way we date.
IIT Kharagpur SMST, IIT Kharagpur to create a phytochemical-based bodysuit The School of Medical Science and Technology, IIT Kharagpur is creating a phytochemical-based antiviral bodysuit to restrict the spread of SARS-CoV-2.
IIT Kharagpur Demystifying the Dark Age We don't conclusively know what went on in the Dark Age of history. Nevertheless, new research by an IIT Kharagpur-led team aims to shed some light on the transitions and upheavals of the Harappan Civilization
IIT Bombay Tracing Gravitational Waves Probing the genesis of gravitational waves is the next step after detecting them. Taking up this formidable task is a special global group of which India is a part - GROWTH.
Going solar-going towards the right future Keeping in mind the huge negative environmental externalities caused by electricity generation from conventional sources of energy like fossil fuels, shifting to cleaner renewable sources of energy is the need
IIT Kharagpur Epidemiological Modeling to predict the spread of Covid-19 An insight into a Bayesian probability model by a fourth-year Undergraduate student from IIT Kharagpur that predicts the spread of COVID 19 in cities
Tech Code for the Stars: Programming the world's largest telescope This isn't so much a story about the Thirty Meter Telescope - an event that astronomers around the world wait for with baited breath - as the technology that's helping build it: software and hardware with a distinctively Indian flavour.
Research Understanding Critical Transitions Studying critical transitions is essential to embrace the changes that we need or to avoid the ones we don't, like climate change
IIT Kharagpur Success story of TeamKART: Formula Bharat 2020 This is TeamKART, IIT Kharagpur's success story as they manage to build their race car in a year and achieve their best ever results in Formula Bharat '20.
Research AgRobots: A glimpse into Futuristic Farming Co-Founder of an AgriTech startup, EarthSense, Dr Girish Chowdhary moots for the role of robots on farms. Get to know the state of agriculture in the USA juxtaposed with Indian farms on the lines of automation and robotics.