Have a quick roundup of what happened in Science & Tech in India and across the globe by clicking the top stories of the week:
Accidental Discovery: Animal That Lives Without Oxygen – A group of Tel Aviv University researchersat the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), USAhas published a journal that confirms the existence of a multi-cellular Eukaryota organism that is a myxozoan relative of jellyfish and corals and does not need oxygen to survive. Henneguya salminicola, a 10-celled tiny parasite, lacks the Mitochondrial DNA and thus doesn’t have the ability to perform aerobic respiration.
Birth of Precursor Planet Earth Speculated to be a Speedy Delivery – According to a new theory from the Centre for Star and Planet Formation (StarPlan), the early form of our planet, the proto-Earth, formed within a time span of approximately five million years. Spellbound researchers at the Globe Institute at the University of Copenhagen suggest that this is very swift on the astronomical scale. Simply put, if the solar system formed in 24 hours, then proto-Earth formed in just 1.5 minutes. The study has been published in Science Advances.
Xiaomi-Qualcomm gears up to Amaze Redmi Smartphone Users with NavIC Tech – Chinese tech major Xiaomi has officially declared that it will bring ISRO’s Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS), NavIC technology to its next range of smartphones. US-based tech company Qualcomm is going to manufacture these chipsets. It aims to provide accurate geolocation services in up to 20-meter range in the primary service areas.
French And Indian Dream Team Find The Key To Optical Data Decryption – Researchers at Raman Research Institute (RRI), India collaborated with the University of Rennes, France to develop and demonstrate a new technique of decrypting encrypted information. Previously done electronically, this one uses optical technology for complex processes like demodulation. It has been approved by the peer-reviewed open access scientific journal, Nature Communications.
Indians were always fighters, survived supereruption even 74,000 years ago – Researchers have discovered how the Toba supereruption in India that happened roughly 74,000 years ago, was not a global catastrophe after all. An ancient and “unchanging” stone tool industry, uncovered at Dhaba in northern India, suggests instead that humans have been present in the Middle Son Valley for roughly 80,000 years, both before and after the Toba eruption.
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