New Delhi: Driven by her grandparents’ battle with cancer, Bengaluru student Sia Godika, 17, created a science video that explained the role of pluripotent stem cells in turning back cellular ageing. The Neev Academy student’s effort has now won her a $400,000 prize in the Breakthrough Junior Challenge — which is designed to inspire creative thinking … Read more
Earliest ‘written language’ In the very first month of the year, archaeologists found what is probably the earliest ‘written language’ discovered so far. The earliest writing system has been traced back to the Sumerians, about 5,000 years ago. The new discovery, made in the UK, centres on a ‘proto-writing’ system, one where marks and signs … Read more
Bengaluru: Researchers from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER)-Bhopal have performed the first complete genome sequencing of the jamun plant (Syzygium cumini), an evergreen native to the Indian subcontinent, with high cultural and ornamental significance. The findings form a first layer of data for future studies on the value of the plant, … Read more
Bengaluru: Scientists in Bengaluru have done the impossible. They’ve made an engine that suffers almost no heat loss. It’s a tiny microscopic heat engine, but overcomes a major problem in thermodynamics — producing maximum power at maximum efficiency. Achieving high efficiency with high power has long been considered almost impossible as conversion of heat to … Read more