Tuesday, 13 July 2021

IISc scientists discover two species of few-electron bubbles in superfluid helium

 IISc scientists discover two species of few-electron bubbles in superfluid helium

Who: Neha Yadav, Physics department, Prosenjit Sen CeNSE, and Ambarish Ghosh CeNSE
What: Few electron Bullbles (FEBs) in superfluid helium for the first time
Feature: useful to study how energy states of electrons and interaction between them in a material influence its properties
Reference: Published in Science Advances 

What to keep in mind for good heart health post angioplasty

 What to keep in mind for good heart health post angioplasty


Who: Dr. Sanjeeb Roy, Cardiologist, Jaipur
What: implanted biodegradable scaffold stent technology
Feature: in two-three year, it will dissolve in the artery and artery will come again in natural form
Advantage: Patient need not take blood thinner medicins.

IIT Mandi develops an AI-based Model for disease detection in potato crops using photos of leaves

 Who: IIT Mandi (Prof. Srikant Srivastava, School of Computing and Electrical Engineering  ) and CSIR's laboratory Central Potato Research Institute, Shimla

What: AI-based computational model: mask-region based convolutional neural network architecture
Feature: Can be integrated with smart mobile phone
How: By taking images of leaves and mapping with the existing data
Reference: Published in the Journal of Plant Phenomics 
Background: The deadliest disease is Potato Blight

Scientists develop AI model to detect gravitational waves

Who: Elie Huerta of DOE, USA, University of Chicago, Univesity of Illinois, NVIDIA, and IBM
What: AI framework/AI algorithm does GPU of LIGO data
Feature: accelerated, scalable, and reproducible detection of gravitational waves
How: By combining the power of AI and supercomputing 
Reference: Nature journal publications 
Background of GW: It was first detected in the year 2015 by LIGO (Laster Intermermeter Gravitational Wave) Observatory

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