Tag: Science
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An emerging opportunity
The fast moving world and the extensive industrial developments not only makes our lives simple but also create a vast number of opportunities. Today, there are various scopes explored by the young, yet some unexplored avenues too. One such area is packaging. But due to the paucity of skilled talent in the industry, this profession …
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March 30, 2017 -
Do you wish to erase your memory?
Scientists have demonstrated “proof of principle” that traumatic memories can be erased from the brain — as seen in the science fiction film, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Studies in mice demonstrated that fearful memories prompted by a sound associated with an electric shock could be turned off and on. The researchers said, however, …
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March 21, 2017 -
When machines learn from us
Being able to recognise things, or faces, which we have seen before, is both to remember what it looked like and to know it is the same thing even if it were oriented differently the second time we see it. Automating the act of making out the object, or pattern recognition by machines is hard …
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March 21, 2017 -
‘Waste tomatoes can be used to make car tires’
Future automobile tires could come from the farm as much as the factory, thanks to a new way developed by scientists to convert waste tomato peels and eggshells into petroleum-based filler for sustainable rubber. Researchers at The Ohio State University in the US have discovered that food waste can partially replace the petroleum-based filler that …
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March 7, 2017 -
A melting pot of changes
Education, as an idea and practice, tends to be conventional and enduring even while efforts are made continuously towards making it contemporary and futuristic. This is, however, rooted in the primal conflict between the ideal and the practical, the needed and the available, and the desirable and the achievable. The last century has seen, by …
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March 6, 2017 -
PM stresses need for drawing younger generation to science
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday underlined the need for drawing young generation to science for the larger welfare of the common people. The Prime Minister’s comment came during his monthly Mann Ki Baat broadcast. It assumes importance in view of India’s declining contribution to the new scientific innovation and thinking having a direct bearing on …
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February 26, 2017