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The Himalaya ‘breathes,’ with mountains growing and shrinking in cycles
Deciphering these geologic respirations can help scientists untangle earthquake risks and pin down the range’s deadly potential.
ByMaya Wei-Haas
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If we could put our planetary clock on fast forward, Earth’s surface would writhe with activity. Continents would scurry across the globe, oceans would open and close, and new mountains would shoot up toward the sky.
Yet even as mountains rise, they also periodically sink back down when the stress from tectonic collisions triggers earthquakes. These events happen in a cycle, like the chest of a rocky behemoth drawing uneven breaths, explains Luca Dal Zilio, a geophysicist at the California Institute of Technology.
TRAI directs cellular authority to assess 5Gi standard as Airtel and Jio disagree over homegrown network
The 5Gi network is developed by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and telecom giants Airtel and Jio are at odds over it. DoT has given a go-ahead to telecom service providers to undertake 5G trials in India.
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Airtel and Jio are at odds over the 5G standard 5Gi network citing the costs of the network.
While Airtel has noted that the 5Gi network will increase costs, Jio has noted that it will support anything indigenous.
DoT has encouraged the telecom service providers (TSP)s to use the 5Gi technology, in the ongoing 5G trials.
Smart classrooms
Haryana CSR Advisory Board has recently launched an initiative to empower all schools in the state with Smart Classroom Solutions so that educators can teach interactively and inspire students. Power Grid Corporation has offered to establish 330 Smart Classrooms in 165 Government Schools. Globus Infocom has also collaborated with the government to implement this project.
Study abroad collaborations
To broaden the scope of international education for Indian students, Prodigy Finance, a cross-border fintech platform offering loans for postgraduate programmes abroad, has joined with six popular universities in the U.S. and the U.K. With these collaborations, students can now have a wider choice of universities to choose from and make informed decisions to have a brighter tomorrow. The fintech platform aims to disburse loans worth more than $1b to over 20,000 deserving Indian students.
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IMAGE: Scientists investigate the evolution of Mimivirus, one of the world s largest viruses, through how they replicate DNA.
Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay shed light on the origins. view more
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2003 was a big year for virologists. The first giant virus was discovered in this year, which shook the virology scene, revising what was thought to be an established understanding of this elusive group and expanding the virus world from simple, small agents to forms that are as complex as some bacteria. Because of their link to disease and the difficulties in defining them they are biological entities but do not fit comfortably in the existing tree of life viruses incite the curiosity of many people.
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Eureka Forbes ‘Coronaguard’ Has “100% Anti Viral Effect In Air” As Per IIT Test
Intended to be used in residential, industrial and commercial environments, these test results come as a positive indicator for the Forbes Coronaguard .
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Introduced last year amid the Coronavirus pandemic, Eureka Forbes s Coronaguard has now been found to show a notable effect in attenuating the Corona family of viruses, thereby reducing the chances of infection to people in enclosed spaces significantly. Tested by The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT – Guwahati), Forbes Coronaguard has been found to have a 100% disinfection efficiency against Avian Coronavirus in the air and Avian Coronavirus on the surface and is said to be non-toxic to human cells.