Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology (IASST), Guwahati, developed an electrochemical sensing platform.
It will detect carcinogenic or mutagenic compound N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) and N-nitrosodiethanolamine (NDEA) that are found in food items like cured meat, bacon, some cheese, and low-fat milk.
It was achieved by developing a modified electrode by immobilizing carbon nanomaterials (carbon dots) in Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA).
People are exposed to harmful chemicals belonging to Nitrosamine family in cured meats, bacon, some cheese, low-fat dry milk, and fish.
May 23, 2020
IIT-M Researchers Develop Low Cost Solar Parabolic Trough Collector
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) have developed a low cost Solar 'Parabolic Trough Collector' (PTC) system for concentrating solar energy with industrial applications in areas such as desalination, space heating and space cooling, among others.
This indigenously designed and developed system was lightweight with high energy efficiency under Indian various climatic and load conditions.
The National Solar Mission was launched with the target of providing 20,000 MW through solar power by 2022.
However, lower rate of energy generation through solar power was a major roadblock in achieving this target.
May 22, 2020
Australia 'Records Fastest Internet Speed Ever'
Researchers in Australia claim they have recorded the fastest ever internet data speed.
A team from Monash, Swinburne and RMIT universities logged a data speed of 44.2 terabits per second (Tbps).
At that speed, users could download more than 1,000 high-definition movies in less than a second.
According to Ofcom, the average UK broadband speed currently is around 64 megabits per second (Mbps) - a fraction of that recorded in the recent study.
May 19, 2020
Researchers Found a New Species Fungi Named Troglomyces Twitteri
Researchers from the University of Copenhagen's Natural History Museum of Denmark discovered new species of parasitic fungus via Twitter.
The newly discovered fungus was named "Troglomyces twitteri", after Twitter.
The discovery was made by the biologist and associate professor Ana Sofia Reboleira of the National Natural History Museum.
She stumbled upon a photo of a North American millipede shared by US colleague Derek Hennen of Virginia Tech on Twitter in 2018.
The researcher spotted a few tiny dots on the North American millipede.
Exoplanet Climate 'Decoder' Aids Search For Life
After examining a dozen types of suns and a roster of planet surfaces, Cornell University astronomers have developed a practical model -- an environmental color "decoder" -- to tease out climate clues for potentially habitable exoplanets in galaxies far away.
Madden and Kaltenegger are co-authors of "How Surfaces Shape the Climate of Habitable Exoplanets," released May 18 in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
May 18, 2020
New Super-Earth with 617-Day Year Discovered
The discovery of a new, so-called "super-Earth" has just been announced by researchers, and it's about four times the mass of our home planet.
The discovery of the super-Earth was made thanks to an astronomical phenomenon known as gravitational microlensing.
And while the planet probably isn't habitable, that phenomenon is still an incredible manifestation of Einstein's general theory of relativity.
The discovery of the new super-Earth, dubbed OGLE-2018-BLG-0677, was outlined in a paper recently published in The Astronomical Journal.
The researchers involved with the study, including lead authors Dr. Antonio Herrera Martin and Associate Professor Michael Albrow, both at the University of Canterbury (UC) in New Zealand, made their discovery using a network of telescopes from across the globe.
ISRO to Tap Startups to Build Local Tech for Gaganyaan
India's space agency will tap startups to develop food and medicines for astronauts, better tools to access machines in a spacecraft and green engines for its maiden humanspace flight Gaganyaan-1.
It will also potentially help them build products and solutions that they can exploit commercially.
Isro identified a set of 17 technologies that it invited researchers to develop locally at lower costs for use in its Gaganyaan missions.
ISRO to Tap Startups to Build Local Tech for Gaganyaan
India's space agency will tap startups to develop food and medicines for astronauts, better tools to access machines in a spacecraft and green engines for its maiden humanspace flight Gaganyaan-1.
It will also potentially help them build products and solutions that they can exploit commercially.
Isro identified a set of 17 technologies that it invited researchers to develop locally at lower costs for use in its Gaganyaan missions.
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