Dr. Johan Hermans, a botanist specializing in orchids and an honorary research associate of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, has discovered a new species of the orchid genus Gastrodia in humid evergreen forests in southeast Madagascar. Established by Robert Brown in 1810, Gastrodia is a genus of terrestrial leafless orchids in the family Orchidaceae. Commonly known as potato orchids, it includes over 90 species found in the Old World … Continue reading New Species of Potato Orchid in Madagascar

National Center for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR), Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India provides financial support to Indian scientists/researchers to participate in expedition 377 on a specific mission platform (MSP) in an International Specific Discovery Program (IODP). The IODP is an international maritime research collaboration that explores the history and dynamics of the Earth using an ocean-going research platform to recover data recorded … Continue reading National Center for Polar and Ocean Research provides financial support to Indian scientists/researchers to participate in expedition 377 on International Specific Discovery Program (IODP)

Original Article Source:  CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 118, NO. 11, 10 JUNE 2020 SANDIP MANDAL, ICAR-Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Nabibagh, Bhopal 462 038, India e-mail: sandip.mandal@icar.gov.in Cooking is the major energy-intensive activity in many households of rural India 1 . A significant number of rural households still depend on biomass for cooking fuel due to easy access, sociopolitical situation, age-old cultural practice and low income … Continue reading Beehive charcoal briquettes: clean cooking fuel for rural households

Environmentalists in India are criticizing government moves to continue to approve major industrial projects, and to relax the nation’s environmental assessment rules, even as the COVID-19 pandemic has complicated public oversight and canceled potential field reviews. “They are carrying on as if there is no health emergency, hosting meetings and taking decisions including on big ticket projects,” said Kanchi Kohli, an environmental governance expert with … Continue reading India’s push to relax environmental assessment rules amid pandemic draws criticism

28 फरवरी – विज्ञन दिवस 28 फरवरी को देश में विज्ञन दिवस के रूप में मनाया जाता है। यही वह दिन है जब देश के महान वैज्ञनिक सी वी रमन ने रमन प्रभाव का आविष्कार किया था, जिसके लिए उन्हें नोबेल पुरस्कार से सम्मानित किया गया।  महान भौतिक विज्ञनी सर चंद्रशेखर वेंकट रमन ने 28 फरवरी 1928 को भौतिकी के गंभीर विषय में एक महत्वपूर्ण खोज … Continue reading 28 फरवरी : भौतिक विज्ञन में भारत की बड़ी उपलब्धि का दिन

Not all of the hundreds of skeletons at the Himalayan site are from the same place or period High in the Himalayas, the bones of several hundred mysterious people lie scattered around a small lake, earning it the nickname Skeleton Lake. Some of those people originated in the vicinity of Greece and Crete around 220 years ago, a new analysis of DNA and radiocarbon-dated bones … Continue reading India’s Skeleton Lake contains the bones of mysterious European migrants

These electrochemical cells might also one day make deep-space missions easier BY MARIA TEMMING 6:00AM, OCTOBER 30, 2018 New chemical-recycling devices might help combat climate change by making good use of heat-trapping gas produced by burning fossil fuels. These electrochemical cells convert carbon monoxide into useful compounds much more efficiently than their predecessors, researchers report online October 25 in Joule. If combined with existing technology that harvests … Continue reading New devices could help turn atmospheric CO2 into useful supplies