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K.M Joseph - A win of Judiciary

The President of India on Friday appointed Madras High Court Chief Justice Indira Banerjee, Orissa HC CJ Vineet Saran and Uttarakhand HC CJ K M Joseph as judges of the Supreme Court.The three judges can take oath in the Supreme Court on Monday.Actually, the government had accepted the recommendation of the Collegium sent for the second time to appoint Justice Joseph. After the appointment of these three new judges, the number of judges will be 25 in the Supreme Court. The judiciary and the government were struggling for the past seven months to promote Justice Joseph to the Supreme Court. Joseph's promotion became a question of prestige between the two. The Supreme Court Collegium had recommended Joseph's name for the first time on January 10 but after the government had kept pending the recommendation for four months, the name of Joseph was sent back to the collegium for reconsideration. The government had questioned the seniority of Justice Joseph after se...

Rourkela City- A Steel world

Rourkela City  - Towards the north of Sambalpur, 192 km, is a tribal heartland, the Sundargarh district and its undulating hills enriched with the deposits of valuable minerals. It remained virtually untouched of civilization till the time of setting up of the first public sector steel plant at Rourkela in 1955. Comprising of two former princely states of  Gangpur  and  Bonai , the Sundergarh district enables one to have a glimpse of traditional tribal culture amidst the excitement of a modern settlement. Rourkela is a city located at 84.54E longitude and 22.12N latitude in Sundergarh district of Odisha at an elevation of about 219 meters above mean sea level. The area of Raurkela is 200 square kilometers approximately. The city is surrounded by a range of hills and encircled by Koel and Sankha rivers which meet at Vedvyas, Raurkela and flow as a single river called Brahmani. It has got one of the largest steel plants of t...

Low 3-D Flyover of Jupiter’s North Pole in Infrared

Low 3-D Flyover of Jupiter’s North Pole in Infrared In this animation the viewer is taken low over Jupiter’s north pole to illustrate the 3-D aspects of the region’s central cyclone and the eight cyclones that encircle it. The movie utilizes imagery derived from data collected by the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument aboard NASA's Juno mission during its fourth pass over the massive planet.  Infrared cameras are used to sense the temperature of Jupiter’s atmosphere and provide insight into how the powerful cyclones at Jupiter's poles work. In the animation, the yellow areas are warmer (or deeper into Jupiter’s atmosphere) and the dark areas are colder (or higher up in Jupiter’s atmosphere).  In this picture the highest “brightness temperature” is around 260K (about -13°C) and the lowest around 190K (about -83°C). The “brightness temperature” is a measurement of the radiance, at 5 Β΅m, traveling upward from the top of the atmosphere towards Juno, expressed i...

Neuroengineer Ed Boyden

Neuroengineer Ed Boyden wants to know how the tiny biomolecules in our brains generate emotions, thoughts and feelings — and he wants to find the molecular changes that lead to disorders like epilepsy and Alzheimer's. Rather than magnify these invisible structures with a microscope, he wondered: What if we physically enlarge them and make them easier to see? Learn how the same polymers used to make baby diapers swell could be a key to better understanding our brains. https://science/1133

Full MSc and PhD scholarships are available for all international students to study in Skoltech, Russia.

 Full MSc and PhD scholarships are available for all international students to study in Skoltech, Russia. πŸŽ“ The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology πŸ‡·πŸ‡Ί established in collaboration with MIT πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) seeks for applicants to pursue Master of Science and PhD programs. The Master of Science programs are two years and taught in English. Students will complete a thesis. All students accepted into MSc programs will receive (i) a tuition waiver (covering the full price of tuition) as well as (ii) a basic starting stipend of 40k RUB (around 550 EUR; tax free) which goes to 55k RUB (around 780 EUR; tax free) after proven performance for six months and (iii) medical insurance. Applications are open to domestic and international students. Applicants must be in their final year of their undergraduate studies or hold a higher education degree (Bachelor’s degree, Master’s degree or Specialist degree) in one of the following areas of study: mat...

Rolls-Royce Is Building Cockroach-Like Robots to Fix Plane Engines

Rolls-Royce Is Building Cockroach-Like Robots to Fix Plane Engines  Rolls-Royce believes these tiny insect-inspired robots will save engineers time by serving as their eyes and hands within the tight confines of an airplane’s engine. According to a report by The Next Web, the company plans to mount a camera on each bot to allow engineers to see what’s going on inside an engine without have to take it apart. Rolls-Royce thinks it could even train its cockroach-like robots to complete repairs.

Neutrinos Linked With Cosmic Source for the First Time

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Neutrinos Linked With Cosmic Source for the First Time High-energy neutrinos have been traced back to a flaring supermassive black hole known as a blazar. The long-sought link opens the door to an entirely new way to study the universe. Neutrinos, though infamously difficult to detect, offer a key advantage over observations with light: The universe is essentially opaque to electromagnetic radiation above a certain energy. High-energy neutrinos, on the other hand, zip across the cosmos unimpeded. When they are caught, the original information they carry remains intact, no matter how far they have had to travel. Scientists hope that with enough neutrinos, they’ll be able image their sources — including the most energetic events in the universe — just like we do with electromagnetic radiation.

GHUMURA : Folk Dance of Kalahandi

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Folk Dance of Kalahandi The Ghumura dance originates from the south-eastern state of Orissa, of the Indian sub-continent. The Kalahandi district of the southern part of the state specializes in this dance form. The themes of the Ghumura songs are related to religious hymns, the glory of the rulers, mythological literature etc. The poets that have taken the Ghumura dance to an exotic level include Upendra Bhanja, Dinakrushna, Abhimanyu Samanta Singar etc. The Ghumura dance was highly  encouraged by the royalties  of the areas of Bhawanipatna, Jayapatna, Madanpur, Rampur, Khariar etc. The Ghumura dance is particularly performed to celebrate the festivals of Dussehra and Nuakhai in the state. Historical Background The birth of the Ghumura dance dates back to thousands of years. Several mythical stories and legends are attached to the history of the Ghumura dance. The Ghumura Janma Bidhan was written by the poet Kandarpa Panda in the year 1954, describing the Ghumara da...

FATHER OF DIFFERENT DISCIPLINES OF SCIENCE

1 Father of actinobiology / radiation biology : HJVS Muller 2 Father of Antibiotics : Alexander Fleming 3 Father of Ayurveda : Charka 4 Father of Bacteriology : Robert Koch 5 Father of Biochemistry : Liebig 6 Father of Biology : Aristole 7 Father of Blood circulation : William Harvey 8 Father of Blood Group : Landsteiner 9 Father of Botany : Theophrastus 10 Father of Bryology : Hedwig 11 Father of Chemotherapy :Father of Anatomy 12 Father of Cloning : Ian Willmut 13 Father of Concept of Evolution : Empedocles 14 Father of Cytology : Robert Hooke 15 Father of DNA Fingerprinting : Alec Jeffery 16 Father of Ecology : Theophrastus 17 Father of Electrocardiography : Einthoven 18 Father of Embryology : Aristotle 19 Father of Endocrinology : Thomas Addison 20 Father of Epidemiology : John Snow 21 Father of Ethology : Konard Lorentz 22 Father of Eugenics : Galton 23 Father of Experimental Genetics : T.H. Morgan 24 Father of Gene therapy : Anderson 25 Father of Genetic ...