India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier Vikrant was handed over to the Navy by The Cochin Shipyard on Thursday The aircraft, named after India’s first aircraft carrier, the Indian Naval Ship (INS) Vikrant, which played a significant role in the 1971 war, is 262-metre-long with a displacement of close to 45,000 tonnes. Vikrant is powered by four gas turbines and was built on a cost of close to Rs 20,000 crore. "Indian Navy has created maritime history today by taking delivery of the prestigious Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (AC) 'Vikrant from her builder Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL), K
In a strategic partnership model with Indian MDL and L&T defense majors, Daewoo and Navantia have proven air-independent propulsion technologies that can be applied to long-endurance submarines. Navantia, a company that has proven AIP technology, and Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering of South Korea have shown an interest in building the submarines under Project 75 (I) India of the Indian Navy. It is unclear whether Daewoo and Navantia will be interested in building long-endurance diesel submarines in India under the strategic partnership model, despite the Defence Ministr
A new eye drop has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a treatment for age-related near-sightedness. According to the researchers, these eye drop solutions will have better vision throughout the day and might rule out the erst to require reading glasses. The formulation of Vuity contains a drug known as pilocarpine. In order to facilitate rapid adaptation to tear film pH, researchers developed technology to allow eye drops to rapidly rebalance. By taking advantage of our eyes' ability to shrink pupil size, we are able to improve near and intermediate vision while retaining
The newly started space tech company, Agnikul Cosmos, today inaugurated India's first-ever 3D-printed rocket engine factory in Chennai. The facility, named Rocket Factory 1, was unveiled by the chairman of Tata Sons and Isro, N Chandrasekaran and S Somanath respectively, in the presence of Pawan Goenka, the chairman of IN-SPACe (Indian National Space Promotion and Authorization Centre). The factory, located at IIT-Madras Research Park, is 10,000-square-foot and will have a 400mm x 400mm x 400mm metal 3D printer from EOS that will make it possible to manufacture a complete rocket engine und
NASA’s new space telescope James Webb has produced the deepest and sharpest infrared view of the distant universe ever captured. Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, this image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 is brimming with detail. For the first time, our view of the universe expanded. The first cosmic image from the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope is the farthest in terms of time and distance that humankind has ever witnessed. On Tuesday, July 12, the telescope will release four more images of the beautiful galaxy. Webb’s first cosmic image has thousands of galaxies, including
On Monday, Union Defense Minister Rajnath Singh launched the 75th newly developed Artificial Intelligence technologies in the first-ever ‘Al in Defense’. The AiDef symposium and exhibition were a part ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’ celebration which was organized by the Ministery of Defense in New Delhi. According to the government release, the celebration falls under multiple domains including Ai Platform Automation; Autonomous/Unmanned/Robotics system; Command; Block Chain-based Automation; Control, Communication, Computer & Intelligence, Cyber Security, Surveillance and Reconnais
On Wednesday, the researcher at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras developed an Artificial Intelligence-based tool- PIVOT that can detect cancer-causing genes in individuals. As per WTO, cancer is one of the main causes of death worldwide. According to the institute, this tool will be beneficial for the strategic treatment of cancer which will predict genes that are responsible for causing it, and details are published in a peer-reviewed journal ‘Frontier in Genetics’. The statement read, “The prediction is based on a model that utilizes information on mutation, expression
Scientists working with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have found three subatomic particles, an unprecedented discovery, as they work to access the functionality of the building blocks of the universe, the European nuclear research center CERN said on Tuesday. The LHC at CERN, 27 kilometers (16.8 miles) long, is the machine that discovered the Higgs boson particle, which in combination with its linked energy field, is paramount to the creation of the universe after the Big Bang billions of years ago. Now CERN scientists say they have seen a new type of "pentaquark" and the first-ever p
A Virgin Orbit rocket bearing seven U.S. Defense Department satellites was launched from a special Boeing 747 that took off from the Southern California coast and dashed toward space Friday night. The transformed large airliner set out from Mojave Air and Space Port in the Mojave Desert and set free the rocket over the Pacific Ocean, northwest of Los Angeles. The U.S Space Force persuaded the launch of a Defense Department test program. The seven satellites will carry out several experiments. “And there we have it, folks!” the company’s note on Twitter read, just before 1
In an attempt to reduce or end CO2 emissions, the 27-member European Union approved and announced its plan early Wednesday to end the sale of combustion engine vehicles by 2035. The step put forward in July 2021 will put an end to sales of petrol and diesel cars and also light commercial vehicles, entirely shifting to electric engines in the European Union from 2035. The plan is meant to help fulfill Europe's climate objectives, mostly carbon neutrality by 2050. The plea of countries including Germany and Italy, the EU-27 also accepted to contemplate a future green light for the use