Sci-Tech

Rourkela: Komal Panda (22), a resident of Odisha’s Rourkela and a fourth-year industrial and product design student at the National Institute of Design (NID) Haryana, has been named the national winner of the James Dyson Award 2024 for her innovative design project named ‘Novocarry’. Announced...

Bhubaneswar: At least 3,660 cyber fraud complaints over duping people of Rs 68.79 crore have been reported at the dedicated cyber police station in Bhubaneswar over the past nine months, a senior police officer said Wednesday. Speaking to reporters, Bhubaneswar DCP Pinak Mishra said that...

Stockholm: The Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded Wednesday to three scientists for their breakthrough work predicting and even designing the structure of proteins, the building blocks of life. The prize was awarded to David Baker, who works at the University of Washington in Seattle,...

Rio de Janeiro: Brazil's Supreme Court has authorised the social media platform X to resume operations in the country after being banned for over a month due to non-compliance with court rulings. Judge Alexandre de Moraes lifted the ban Tuesday after X paid approximately 28.6...

New Delhi: After the success of the Chandrayaan-3 mission, the National Space Commission has cleared the fifth lunar mission -- the Lunar Polar Exploration Mission or Lupex. The Lupex mission will explore the Moon for water and other resources. It is a collaborative effort between...

Stockholm: John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for discoveries and inventions that formed the building blocks of machine learning. “This year's two Nobel Laureates in physics have used tools from physics to develop methods that are the foundation...

San Francisco: A jury at a district court in the US has found that tech major Cognizant allegedly discriminated against non-Indian workers in Silicon Valley, asking for punitive damages against the company. According to multiple reports, the jury verdict against Cognizant came in a class-action...

New Delhi: The model for the development of the Next Generation Launch Vehicle (NGLV) will be announced soon and that will provide a huge opportunity for industries to come into the space sector right at the beginning of design itself, ISRO chief S Somanath said...

Stockholm: The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA, a fundamental principle governing how gene activity is regulated. The Nobel Assembly said that their discovery is “proving to be fundamentally important for how...

New Delhi: Shares of Ola Electric Mobility tumbled 9 per cent Monday amid reports of service quality issues of its electric scooters and its CEO's spat on social media. Sliding for the third straight day, the stock of the company plunged 9.14 per cent to...