A new study from arid Bikaner in Rajasthan has demonstrated a novel, farm-level strategy to tackle the interconnected crises of water scarcity, energy demand, and climate change. It demonstrates that simple changes to crop choice and soil management can dramatically improve the sustainability of farming systems. 

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Scientists from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, study how climate change is affecting small herbivores in the Himalayas. 

On the 20th and 21st of August 2018, the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, organised a workshop on “Science, Journalism, Media: Communicating Science in a Changing India”, which was attended by about one hundred attendees. These included India's well-known scientists, science journalists, science communicators and aspiring science writers.

IIT Bombay researchers survey different approaches to automatically detect sarcastic texts using computers. 

अच्छे स्वस्थ्य के लिए शुद्ध पेय जल एक महत्वपूर्ण ज़रूरत है। अशुद्ध जल पीने से हैज़ा, दस्त, पेचीस, हेपेटाइटिस-ए, और टायफॉइड जैसी बीमारियाँ होती हैं। भारत जैसे देश में, जहाँ २१ प्रतिशत संक्रामक बीमारियाँ दूषित जल के कारण फैलती हैं और साफ-सुरक्षित पेय जल की अनुपलब्धता के कारण प्रतिदिन ५०० से ज़्यादा बच्चे ५ वर्ष की आयु के भीतर ही  दस्त  के शिकार हो जाते हैं, शुद

ಹೆನ್ರಿ ಸುವಿಲ್ಲನ್ ಥಾಮಸ್ 1873 ರಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರಕಟವಾದ ತಮ್ಮ ‘ಎ ರಾಡ್ ಇನ್ ಇಂಡಿಯಾ’ ಎಂಬ ಪುಸ್ತಕದಲ್ಲಿ ಭಾರತೀಯ ಕ್ರೀಡಾ ಮೀನುಗಾರಿಕೆಯ ಹಲವು ಆಯಾಮಗಳನ್ನು, ಅದರ ತಂತ್ರೋಪಾಯಗಳನ್ನು ಉಲ್ಲೇಖಿಸುತ್ತಾರೆ. ಈ ಪುಸ್ತಕದಲ್ಲಿ ಮೋಜಿನ ಆಟಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ಬಳಸುವ ‘ಗೂನು ಬೆನ್ನಿನ ಮಹಶೀರ್ (ಸಿಹಿ ನೀರಿನ)’ ಮೀನಿನ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಪ್ರಮುಖವಾಗಿ ಉಲ್ಲೇಖಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಈ ಮೀನು ಸುಮಾರು 1.5 ಮೀಟರ್ ಉದ್ದ ಹಾಗೂ 55 ಕಿಲೊ ಗ್ರಾಮ್ ತೂಕದಷ್ಟು ದೈತ್ಯಾಕಾರವಾಗಿ ಬೆಳೆಯಬಹುದು.

भारतीय तंत्रज्ञान संस्था, मुंबई ह्यांनी केलेल्या एका अभ्यासात दिसून आले आहे की शहरी-ग्रामीण संक्रमण क्षेत्रात संसाधने आणि उपजीविकेची साधने ह्यात मोठ्या प्रमाणात अनपेक्षित बदल होत आहेत.

Scientists from IIT Bombay devise a method to grow nanographene on copper using atomic hydrogen at lower temperatures.

Researchers from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, find how geckos from India could have spread into and adapted to the Sri Lankan environment.

Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, study the changes in cell morphology at different cell densities.

Last month, doctoral student Mr. Dev Kumar Thapa and his advisor Prof. Anshu Pandey from the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, claimed to have discovered evidence for superconductivity at a temperature much higher than ever before. The researchers have posted a preprint of their paper titled, “Evidence for Superconductivity at Ambient Temperature and Pressure in Nanostructures” to the arXiv, an online repository of pre-prints of journal papers. They have also submitted a paper outlining their findings to the journal Nature. In this particular instance, questions of various kinds have been raised about the research reported in the preprint in the public debate.

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