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Sep 27, 2019

NASA Visualization Shows a Black Hole's Warped World

NASA's new visualization shows a black hole's warped world and it looks like something you would see in a trippy carnival mirror.
The moving images replicate a black hole's appearance where infalling matter has collected into a flimsy, scorching structure called an accretion disk. Extreme gravity from the black hole skews light emitted by different regions of the disk, resulting in the bizarre warped view.
Bright knots constantly form and dissipate in the disk as magnetic fields wind and twist through the churning gas.
Nearest the black hole, the gas orbits at close to the speed of light, while the outer portions spin a bit more slowly.
This difference stretches and shears the bright knots, producing light and dark lanes in the disk.

Technology Awards Presented To Four Labs

President of India Ram Nath Kovind and Minister for Science and Technology, Earth Sciences Dr. Harsh Vardhan presented the Technology Awards and other prizes for excellence in science and technology, instituted by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
The winners of the CSIR Technology Awards are - Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow; Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Bhavnagar; Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research, Dhanbad; and National Aerospace Laboratories, Bengaluru.
The awards were instituted in 1990 to foster and encourage multi-disciplinary in-house team efforts and external interaction for technology development, transfer and commercialization.

MoU To Set Up Kalam Centre For Science And Technology At CUJ Signed

A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed among Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), Ministry of Defence and Central University of Jammu (CUJ) for the establishment of Kalam Centre for Science and Technology (KCST) at the university.
The MoU signing ceremony was held in the presence of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh. The main objective of the MoU is to undertake and facilitate multidisciplinary directed basic and applied research and technology development in the identified research verticals, namely, computational system security and sensors.

Sep 26, 2019

NASA To Pay $4.6 Bn To Buy 6 Spacecraft For Artemis Moon Missions

NASA has contracted American global aerospace company Lockheed Martin to develop minimum six and as many as 12 spacecraft for its Artemis lunar exploration programme.
NASA has designated a total of around $4.6 billion for six spacecrafts.
NASA's Artemis programme aims to land American astronauts, including the first woman and the next man, on the Moon by 2024

BPRD to OrganizeNational Level Seminar On Anti Drone Technology

The Bureau of Police Research & Development (BPR&D) is organizing a National Level Seminar cum Exhibition on Anti-Drone Technology at BPR&D, New Delhi on 26 September, 2019.
BPR&D will demonstrate on 27 September 2019 at BSF Campus, Bhondsi, Haryana.
The National Level seminar cum exhibition and demonstration is to ensure that Police officers from all States, Union Territories (UTs), Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs), Central Police Organisation (CPO) have updated information about Anti- Drone Technology.
It will also ensure to explore the best comprehensive and compatible solution to control rogue drones.

Events:

The seminar includes 3 sessions including:

1) Threat Perspective, Border, Oil/Gas, Critical Infrastructure, Civil Aviation, Terrorism, Law enforcement

2) To understand Anti-Drone Detection, Identification, Tracking, Mitigation of Rogue Drones

3) Policy Framework for Anti-Drone Technology

Sep 25, 2019

Planned For Six Months, India's Mars Mission Mangalyaan Completes Five Years

The Mars Orbiter Mission is the only artificial satellite that could image the full disc of Mars in one view frame and also image the far side of Deimos.
The Mangalyaan mission, which was initially meant to last six months, completed five years of orbiting Mars and is likely to continue for some more time.
In the past five years, the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), India's first interplanetary endeavour, helped India's space agency prepare a Martian Atlas based on the images provided by the orbiter.

India International Science Festival to be held in Kolkata from November 5 to 8, 2019

The fifth edition of India International Science Festival (IISF) will be held in Kolkata from November 5-8, 2019, Science and Technology Minister Harsh Vardhan announced.
More than 12,000 participants, including 8,000 students, are expected to attend the event.
350 students will replicate the experiment of wireless communication conducted by Jagdish Chandra Bose.
The DST, Department of Biotechnology, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Indian Council of Medical Research and the Ministry of Earth Sciences are major government sponsoring bodies for the event.
It is being organised in collaboration with Vigynana Bharati, an RSS-linked scientific body.
The IISF will also hosts 28 different events such as Agriculture Scientists' Meet, Vigyan Samagam, Young Scientists Conference, Vigyanika-International Science Literature Festival, International Science Film Festival of India.

Sep 24, 2019

Students Invent Barcode-LED Based System To Locate Seats In Movie Theatres

Fumbling and moving across people to find a seat in a dark theatre is something every movie goer has experienced.
To save them of the annoyance, students of a private university have developed a 'locator system' that will use barcodes on tickets and LED lights on the floor to guide people to their seats.
The LEDs will have a colour specific to a ticket and light up once barcodes or QR codes are accessed or punched-in at a theatre's entry gate. The light will turn off automatically once a seat is occupied.
The system developed by a team at the Lovely Professional University (LPU) will require movie theatres to install LED strips or any other form of lights on the floor for the locator to function.

Sep 23, 2019

Qatar Science And Technology Park Plans To Invest $50m To Support Start-Ups

Building on its success over the past 10 years, Qatar Science and Technology Park's (QSTP), a member of Qatar Foundation, will offer $50m in the next five years to support start-ups.
While QSTP's core mandate and commitment remain to continue growing the business research and development aspect, it is actively growing its technology innovation and entrepreneurship offerings through various full-featured educational, training, mentorship, as well as comprehensive funding programmes.
This positions QSTP as an engine that drives the implementation of research, development, and innovation for the national benefit and global impact.
QSTP was initiated as an entrepreneurial, venture funding culture, and all the associated facilities and systems to support such.

Australian Academy of Science welcomes Australia-US bilateral science and technology initiatives

The Australian Academy of Science welcomes a range of Australia–US bilateral science and technology initiatives announced by Prime Minister Scott Morrison during his meetings in Washington.
New initiatives will support NASA's mission to return to the moon and travel to Mars.
The initiatives include significant investment of $150 million into local Australian businesses, researchers and new technologies to support NASA's mission to return to the moon and travel to Mars, representing a boost for the Australian Space Agency.

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