Hon'ble Union Minister for Science & Technology Dr. Harsh Vardhan : I am very much pleased to know that Vijnana Bharati, DST & CSIR-IICT have come up with a unique and dynamic web portal, www.scienceindia.in for creating affinity towards science and nurturing curiosity among the Indian... Continue reading
India rsquo s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle GSLV MkIII-M1 successfully launched the 3840 kg Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft into an earth orbit The spacecraft is now revolving round the earth with a perigee of 169 7 km and an apogee of 45 475 km This flight marks...
The INCA Indian National Cartographers Association established in 1979 by the Department of Geography Osmania University and the Survey of India is conducting its annual map quiz programme for school children ldquo INCA-National Map Quiz rdquo The quiz consist...
Satellite RISAT-2B was launched form the Satish Dhawan Space Centre successfully The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C46 deployed RISAT-2B into an orbit of 556 km about 15 minutes and 25 seconds after lift-off After separation solar arrays of RISAT-2B were de...
Blog Series on Chemistry Nobel Laureates Continued from www scienceindia in home view blog 13 Hermann Emil FischerBorn 9th October 1852 Euskirchen in Germany Died 15th July 1919 Berlin Germany Hermann Emil Fischer won the second Nobel Prize in Chemi...
Continued from www scienceindia in home view blog 27Madam Curie received the Chemistry Nobel Prize in 1911 for the discovery of the radioactive elements radium and polonium Marie Sklodowska was born in Poland and her parents were teachers who believed strongly in t...
Light is something that we take for granted The sun is the chief source of light It is light that enables us to see reflections in mirrors Light travels in rays that move in a straight line at great speed A light ray travels through space at 186 000 miles 2...
In the peak of summer as we all sip a glass of cold water let us all talk about water All of you know water is chemically represented as H2O as it consists of one atom of oxygen bound to two atoms of hydrogen The hydrogen atoms are attached to the oxygen atom resu...