Science & Technology

Improved, heavy rare earth-free, low-cost magnets for EV vehicles could reduce mobility costs
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Improved, heavy rare earth-free, low-cost magnets for EV vehicles could reduce mobility costs

Scientists have fabricated improved low cost heavy rare earth-free high Nd-Fe-B magnets, which are in high demand for Electric Vehicles and can make them more affordable.  More than 90% of EVs use brushless DC (BLDC) motors made up of rare earth Neodymium Iron Boron (Nd-Fe-B) magnets. Since its discovery by Sagawa in 1984, the Nd-Fe-B magnet has been one […]

What is ChatGPT which has taken the internet by storm? How does it work and how does it benefit?
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What is ChatGPT which has taken the internet by storm? How does it work and how does it benefit?

OpenAI has released ChatGPT, a new dialogue language model (LM) based on the GPT-3.5 family series (trained on text and code) and similar to InstructGPT (aligned with reinforcement learning through human feedback). The company set up an online demo which has gone viral among users and reached its first 1 million user accounts in just […]

Space Race – War Beyond The Karman Line
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Space Race – War Beyond The Karman Line

Imperialism and aggression in the 20th century culminated in victimizing the centrifugal retaliation which had gone beyond the Karman line. The space race today is not just between 2 countries but among several rapidly growing nations like China, India, Japan, France etc. The 20th-century world wars paved the way for outstanding innovations in space whereas […]

The rise of Unicorns – Signs of economic recovery after COVID-19 pandemic?
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The rise of Unicorns – Signs of economic recovery after COVID-19 pandemic?

A unicorn is a privately held startup company with a current valuation of US$1 billion or more, across technology centers throughout the world. These unicorns are primarily located in consumer, technology, finance, hospitality, retail, and communications. Startups are taking advantage of the flood of new technology of the last decade to obtain Unicorn status. With […]

ISRO to launch Geo-imaging satellite “EOS-03” later this year
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ISRO to launch Geo-imaging satellite “EOS-03” later this year

Union Minister of State for Science & Technology Dr Jitendra Singh informed that Geo-imaging satellite “EOS-03”is scheduled for launch in third quarter of 2021. The EOS-03 would enable near-real time monitoring of natural disasters like floods & cyclones. The information was shared while replying to a question in the Rajya Sabha today. He said that […]

Understanding Cryptocurrencies
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Understanding Cryptocurrencies

Unlike paper currencies, cryptocurrencies are decentralized i.e there is no central authority that issues, controls or overlooks them. “Block chain” is the underlying technology and the security of cryptocurrencies are backed by computer encryption algorithms like hashing and cryptography giving them the adjective “crypto”-currency. Start-ups are keen on utilizing this as an investing tool which […]

Mohali’s IISER develops the coldest refrigerator using cryogenic technology, a great leap for Quantum computing
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Mohali’s IISER develops the coldest refrigerator using cryogenic technology, a great leap for Quantum computing

Scientists at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Mohali, have used cryogenic technology to achieve a low temperature of 10 milliKelvin or -272.99 degrees Celsius, slightly toasty than the extremely cold world of space where the temperature is as low as 2 milliKelvin (-273.148 degrees Celsius). The temperature achieved by the institute […]

Scientists at S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences show Space-time induces neutrino oscillations
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Scientists at S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences show Space-time induces neutrino oscillations

Professor Amitabha Lahiri of S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences (SNBNCBS) showed in a paper published along with Subhasish Chakrabarty, his student, that the geometry of space-time can cause neutrino oscillations through quantum effects even if neutrinos are massless. It was published in the journal ‘European Physical Journal C’. SNBNCBS is an autonomous […]