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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - December 2018

Dec 2018

Aug 24, 2025

India's Largest Tech and Business Event

The Mahatma Mandir Convention Centre in Gujarat transformed into India's largest technology and business convergence point as Odoo Community Days 2025 concluded its record breaking two day run, drawing more than 25,000 participants and establishing new benchmarks for enterprise software adoption in the country.
The event underscored India's position as one of Odoo's fastest growing markets globally, with CEO Fabien Pinckaers personally highlighting the country's strategic importance during his keynote address.

Aug 23, 2025

NASA Launches AI Model to Understand Solar Eruptions, Predict Space Weather

NASA and IBM released a new open-source machine learning model to help scientists better understand and predict the physics and weather patterns of the sun. Surya, trained on over a decade's worth of NASA solar data, should help give scientists an early warning when a dangerous solar flare is likely to hit Earth.

Aug 22, 2025

Australian Scientists Grow World's First Living Skin with Blood Supply in Lab

In a big breakthrough, Australian scientists successfully grew the world's first fully functioning human skin in a lab, complete with its blood supply. The study was conducted by Dr. Abbas Shafiee, a tissue engineering and regenerative medicine scientist at the Frazer Institute at the University of Queensland, in collaboration with Metro North Health.
This is the most life-like skin model that's been developed anywhere in the world and will allow to study diseases and test treatments more accurately.

Aug 21, 2025

Russia Launches Animals into Space aboard Bion-M No. 2 Biosatellite

Russia launched the Bion-M No. 2 biosatellite using a Soyuz-2.1b rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. This mission carries 75 mice, more than 1,000 fruit flies, plant seeds, cell cultures, and microorganisms for a 30-day orbital experiment. The main focus is to examine how prolonged exposure to microgravity and cosmic radiation impacts living organisms, providing important information for future human spaceflight.

Aug 19, 2025

IIT Madras Licenses India's First Silicon Photonics Quantum Random Generator

IIT Madras took a major step in advancing India's quantum innovation ecosystem by developing and licensing the nation's first silicon photonics-based high-speed Quantum Random Number Generator (QRNG).
The deal, valued at Rs. 1 crore, was signed with Indrarka Quantum Technologies Pvt Ltd for its commercial deployment.
The landmark technology was created at the Centre for Programmable Photonic Integrated Circuits and Systems (CPPICS), IIT Madras, and marks the beginning of indigenous field-deployable quantum solutions for national and global applications. The licensing agreement was formalised through the institute's Technology Transfer Office.

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