Jumping Electrons Provide Stronger Passwords
04 Oct 2024 under Features
From WhatsApp messages to bank transactions, communication between humans has moved largely online. But the task of securing these communications is not simple. Today, secure communication is characterised by confidentiality and authenticity. Confidentiality involves ensuring that the message is passed to the receiver safely, and authenticity involves using tools or mechanisms to verify that the […]
IISc Physicists Find a New Way to Look at Mathematics’ Pi
03 Jul 2024 under Focus
Investigating string theory led the scientists to a new series representation for the irrational number Aninda Sinha, a theoretical physicist at the Centre for High Energy Physics (CHEP), is interested in understanding in string theory – the theoretical framework that looks at physical phenomena and seeks to find a unified way to represent them by […]
The MIDAS touch
02 Feb 2024 under Features
IISc-ICMR-ARTPARK collaboration seeks to build gold-standard medical datasets representative of the Indian population The year 1895. German scientist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen noticed a strange spark inside his laboratory apparatus. The spark, which led to the discovery of X-rays, not only got Roentgen the Nobel Prize in 1905 but also gave a fillip to medicine. Since […]
Water Supply Without Electricity
15 Dec 2023 under Focus
In India, access to irrigation is a major problem. Punit Singh, Associate Professor at the Centre for Sustainable Technologies (CST), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), has been working on a solution to address this irrigation scarcity for the past 10 years in Chhattisgarh. Chhattisgarh receives river water supply from the Ganga, Godavari, and Mahanadi basins. While canal […]
Cracking an Age-old Thermodynamic Puzzle
03 Nov 2023 under Focus
Designing a heat engine that can produce maximum power at maximum efficiency is a major challenge. Practical heat engines are limited to a theoretical efficiency called the Carnot limit, which sets a cap on how much heat can be converted to useful work. In a breakthrough, researchers at IISc and JNCASR have devised a novel […]