Coastal erosion and the proliferation of seawalls, exacerbated by climate change and human activity, are rapidly eliminating critical nesting habitats for sea turtles along the Karnataka coast.

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Mumbai

IIT Bombay researchers use a robot that mimics animal movements to study how homing animals efficiently return home without getting lost or being late

Mumbai

A new study of the Saurashtra Basin dates the minerals found in the sediments, revealing the paths of ancient rivers and the geological history of the Indian subcontinent.

Mumbai

Researchers from IIT Bombay study heavy polluters on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway and suggest the need for stringent policies to restrict vehicular pollution.

Mumbai

The proposed method optimises the weight, cost and range of FCEVs by determining the optimally required radiator size in the vehicles

Mumbai

Researchers have developed ceramic based cold plates that could replace copper cold plates used to cool computers and allow smaller and compact packing of circuit boards

Bengaluru

New study uses ideas from string theory and quantum field theory to simplify calculations of transcendental numbers, like pi and Euler’s Zeta function.

Mumbai

Researchers have built two-dimensional materials-based transistors and used them to design ultra-low power artificial neuron circuits for autonomous robots.

Mumbai

Scientists theoretically probe the atomic properties of the 2D materials under strain

Mumbai

A set of proteins have been identified from tumour and blood samples for the diagnosis and prognosis of meningiomas that could predict meningioma severity.

Mumbai

New study uses mathematical analysis of walking patterns for early detection of Parkinson’s disorder.

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