The Dilemma of Digital Sleep Solutions
admin Digital aids are sweeping through a sleepless world. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto A wooden bowl, filled with water and bobbing wooden orbs, is sloshed around with a spatula. A…
Study: Delhi Street Vendors Suffer Health Issues, Financial Losses Due to Heatwaves
Dehydration, heat exhaustion, fatal heat strokes. A recent study by Greenpeace India and the National Hawkers Federation, which surveyed 721 street vendors between April and May 2024, has shed light…
Interview: Why Samsung put a UK startup centre stage
Oxford Semantic Technologies is an example of what Matt Clifford, chair of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), was thinking about when he drafted the proposals for the…
Artificial Light Harvesting Systems Based on Novel AIEgen-branched Rotaxane Dendrimers for Photocatalyzed Functionalization of C-H Bonds
Aiming at the construction of novel luminescent materials for practical use, a new type of AIEgen-branched rotaxane dendrimers with up to 42 TPE units precisely distributed with the dendrimer skeletons…
Kallakurichi Methanol Hooch Tragedy: Exposing the Deadly Nexus of Bootleggers and Lax Enforcement
In one of the worst hooch tragedies in recent times, at least 58 people, including a few women, have died, and more than 50 others are battling for their lives…
Digital twins extend to biological systems
Even though relatively new, digital twins are virtualising industrial settings, urban environments and strategic decision-making scenarios, but they can also virtualise biological systems and dynamics – even as far…
Aqueous up-conversion organic phosphorescence and tunable dual emission in a single-molecular emitter
Materials exhibiting up-conversion room-temperature phosphorescence (RTP) with multi-emissive properties in aqueous solutions hold significant potential for optical imaging and sensing applications. However, achieving such photophysical materials within the molecular emitter…
Review of The Moral Contagion by Anil Menon: Julia Hauser’s plague chronicle fascinates but falls short on promised insights into pandemics’ societal toll
A coloured wood engraving showing a street during the Great Plague in London, 1665, with a death cart and mourners. It is captioned, “Bring Out Your Dead”. | Photo Credit:…
India’s Deadly Snakebite Crisis: Karnataka Leads Charge to Tackle Hidden Epidemic
Kumar Gowda, a 60-year-old small farmer from Sannegowdara Colony in Hunsur taluk, Mysuru district, vividly remembers August 26, 2022—the day he lost his wife. After lunch, Gowda and his wife…