What gives desserts their texture? Or what makes paints durable? For Dr Ashish Lele, the answers lie at the microscopic level. At the National Chemical Laboratories, Pune, he has been exploring how molecular structures influence the properties of soft materials. ...
11:43 AM, Jan 05, 2013
Gardening is Dr Ajayaghosh's hobby, a getaway when he is not doing what he's best at which is working with molecules. ...
07:12 AM, Jan 01, 2013
Often in a market, buyers don't know the true value of a product, and sellers may not know how much a customer can really pay. So how does one trade in such a scenario? Dr Arunava Sen, economist and winner of the Infosys Prize, may have some answers. He has spent years analysing how buyers and sellers behave in auctions and other businesses where key information is often kept hidden....
10:19 AM, Dec 31, 2012
Small is beautiful, says nano-technologist Ashutosh Sharma. The things he builds under a microscope could one day give tiny cell phone batteries, a cure for cancer which is why he has been awarded the Infosys Science Prize for this year. "A nano-technologist has nothing to do with the Tata Nano. But we do work with very small things, things 10,000 times smaller than a human hair," says Ashutosh Sharma. He...
12:15 PM, Jan 04, 2011
Small is beautiful, says nano-technologist Ashutosh Sharma. The things he builds under a microscope could one day give tiny cell phone batteries, a cure for cancer which is why he has been awarded the Infosys Science Prize for this year. "A nano-technologist has nothing to do with the Tata Nano. But we do work with very small things, things 10,000 times smaller than a human hair," says Ashutosh Sharma. He...
12:15 PM, Jan 04, 2011
Upinder Singh was honoured for her contribution in the field of History. ...
03:57 AM, Jan 05, 2010
