. Kuwait Children Science Congress and Exhibition conducted in Kuwait First ever Kuwait Children Science Congress (KCSC) and Exhibition was held on 27th November 2015 at Indian Central School, Abbassiya. The event was inaugurated jointly by Mrs. Santha Maria James (Principal, Indian Central School), Dr. S.Neelamani (Senior Scientist, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research), Dr. Narayana Bhat (Senior Scientist, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research), and Dr.Mohan Rana (Senior Scientist, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research ) by lighting the traditional lamp. Indian Community School (Juniors) and Indian Learners Own Academy in the Junior category and Indian Central School and DPS in the senior category were selected by the judges to represent Kuwait in the National Level NCSC at Chandigarh University, Mohali, Chandigarh, scheduled to be held from 27th Dec to 31st Dec-2015. Participation Certificates for the students and project guides and the memento for participating schools were distributed at the venue by Dr.Navnit Gandhi, Mr. Rajsekhar, Mr.Renjith Pillai, Mr.K.P.Suresh, Dr.Biji Basheer, Mr.Mohankumar and Mr.Prasanth Nair. Five outstanding projects from each category and the best stalls were also declared and the winners will receive prizes during Annual Sci- ence Gala, scheduled to be held by March/April 2016. KCSC was organized as part of the prestigious ‘National Children's Science Congress’. It is for the first time that the students at different Indian Schools in Kuwait are getting the unique opportunity to participate in NCSC. December, 2015
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Kuwait Children Science Congress and Exhibition conducted in Kuwait
First ever Kuwait Children Science Congress (KCSC) and Exhibition was held on 27th November 2015 at
Indian Central School, Abbassiya. The event was inaugurated jointly by Mrs. Santha Maria James
(Principal, Indian Central School), Dr. S.Neelamani (Senior Scientist, Kuwait Institute for Scientific
Research), Dr. Narayana Bhat (Senior Scientist, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research), and Dr.Mohan
Rana (Senior Scientist, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research ) by lighting the traditional lamp. Indian
Community School (Juniors) and Indian Learners Own Academy in the Junior category and Indian Central
School and DPS in the senior category were selected by the judges to represent Kuwait in the National
Level NCSC at Chandigarh University, Mohali, Chandigarh, scheduled to be held from 27th Dec to 31st
Dec-2015. Participation Certificates for the students and project guides and the memento for participating
schools were distributed at the venue by Dr.Navnit Gandhi, Mr. Rajsekhar, Mr.Renjith Pillai,
Mr.K.P.Suresh, Dr.Biji Basheer, Mr.Mohankumar and Mr.Prasanth Nair. Five outstanding projects from
each category and the best stalls were also declared and the winners will receive prizes during Annual Sci-
ence Gala, scheduled to be held by March/April 2016. KCSC was organized as part of the prestigious
‘National Children's Science Congress’. It is for the first time that the students at different Indian Schools in
Kuwait are getting the unique opportunity to participate in NCSC.
December, 2015
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Indian Institute Of Science Bangalore Makes It To The Top-100 Universities Of The World
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
Bangalore broke India's poor ranking
spell by making a debut in the world's
top 100 universities for engineering and
technology.
IISc made its entry at 99th spot in a list
that remains dominated by US institu-
tions with Stanford, CalTech and Mas-
sachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) in the top three positions in the
'Times Higher Education (THE) Rank-
ing for Engineering & Technology'.
"This year's stand out success story has to be India, making its debut in this prestigious engineering and tech-
nology ranking, which represents the top few per cent of world universities for these subject disciplines.
"Whether you look at high tech sectors such as IT or aerospace engineering or more traditional fields such as
steelmaking, India's engineering and technology prowess is highly visible the world over in the shape of com-
panies based in India or run by people born in India, such as Google and Microsoft, Infosys and Wipro or Tata
and Mittal," said Phil Baty, Times Higher Education World University Rankings editor.
THE has singled out the year as
one of Asian progress, with the
US holding 31 positions - down
from 34 last year - while Asia
holds 25 positions in the Top 100,
up from 18 last year.
Asian universities occupied six
positions in the Top 30 this year,
with Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan
and India all improving their rep-
resentation, while Singapore and
Hong Kong maintained theirs.
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India International Science Festival 2015 to be held at Delhi
India International Science Festival (IISF 2015), which aims to
provide a platform to young scientists from all over the country to
share and spread their scientific ideas, achievements and inventions,
will be organized from December 4 to 8. IISF 2015, a joint event of
Ministry of Science and Technology and Ministry of Earth Sciences,
is being organized by Technology Information, Forecasting and
Assessment Council (TIFAC) in collaboration with Vijnana Bharathi.
According to the organizers, the objectives of IISF 2015 are to expose
the fruits of Science & Technology to the masses and build a strategy
to instill scientific temper among the masses. While Indian contribu-
tions in the field of S&T over the years will be showcased, the festival
will also provide the platform to young scientists from SAARC and
neighboring countries for exchange of knowledge and ideas. Flagship
programs like Make in India, Digital India, Start-ups, Smart Villages,
Smart Cities, etc., initiated by the government will also be a focus of
IISF 2015.The highlights of the festival will be a Young Scientists'
Conference, Techno-industrial Expo, Science Film Festival, National
Level Exhibition and Project Competition (NLEPC) under 'INSPIRE'
Programme of DST, Industry-Academia Conclave and Practical Sci-
ence Laboratory Demonstration.
The programme also includes interactive workshops and informative
sessions. Young Scientists' Conference will be an attraction of the fes-
tival. According to the organizers, young people are the innovators,
creators, builders and leaders of the future. The conference will bring
together scientists up to the age of 45 years from all over the country
in an effort to provide them an opportunity to showcase their research
and achievements.
The event would also be effective in promoting scientists-students in-
teractions. Best technical papers, preferably one from each sub-theme,
adjudged by a team of juries would be given recognition and award.
Indian student has developed a
low-cost cardboard baby incuba-
tor that that could help save mil-
lions of lives in countries like
India which lack grassroots-level
infrastructure for neonatal care of
premature and underweight in-
fants.
Malav Sanghavi, studying for his
Innovation Design Engineering
(IDE) Master's dual degree
course at Imperial College Lon-
don and Royal College of Art,
won third prize for his BabyLife-
Box in a start-up competition
held at St James' Palace in Lon-
don.
"BabyLifeBox is a low-cost baby
incubator that provides basic ne-
onatal care at grassroots-level.
India has highest number of ba-
bies dying within the first 24
hours of their birth in the world,
more than 300,000 a year," Sang-
havi said.
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Indian team bags NASA award for innovative puncture prevention technology
A technology to prevent tire tube puncturing got an award in the Create the Future Design Contest-
2015 conducted by NASA Tech Brief in New York. The Burst Prevention and Puncture Curative (BPPC)
technology invented by Tychee Juno project from India became one of the top ten entries in the contest.
Tychee Juno is a firm working on Disruptive and Breakthrough Innovation in technology mostly related to
automotive division. The project team was headed by Sameer Panda, an engineer, based in Odisha.
The Mild Run Flat Tyre developed by Tychee Juno is a multi-chambered tubeless tire with sealant
inside the chamber to take care of puncture in tread and sidewall. The Mild RFT takes care of the drawbacks of
traditional sealant in tire namely leakage, deterioration of sealant due to interaction with air, problem in wheel
balancing, rubber hardening, clogging near the valve, messy feeling for customer etc. It helps to increase fuel
efficiency and life and can also be manufactured with existing technology. It is estimated that if this
technology is used in 10 million vehicles, carbon emission due to tyre replacement can be reduced up to
200,000 ton CO2 annually. 200 million gallons of gasoline consumption also can be reduced.
Another importance of this invention is that use of cancer-causing lead, which is used for wheel
balancing, can be avoided. The US has already banned the use of lead. Hindustan Times quoted Tychee Juno
team leader Sameer Panda as saying, “It has clocked more than 40,000 hours in last more than a decade in
inventing the technology that can be manufactured in existing manufacturing set-up and can also be retrofitted
in any tubeless, self-supported or auxiliary supported tire.” Procyrion Inc. USA won the grand prize in the
contest for Development of a Non-Surgical Circulatory Support Device for the treatment of chronic heart
failure. Seven other teams received awards for different categories. Scientists from 60 countries participated in
the contest.
Panda is a Masters in Business Law from National Law
School Bangalore, patent agent and inventor, and now
pursuing PhD from VSS University of Technology in
Odisha’s Sambalpur district.
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Albert Einstein’s General Theory Of Relativity Turns 100: Equations was First Unveiled On
November 25, 1915
The General Theory of Relativity was first presented by Albert
Einstein on November 25, 1915, according to Smithsonian Maga-
zine. On that date he stood before a group of scientists in Berlin at
the Prussian Academy of Sciences and stated that he had a new
theory that was complete and that it would give the world a “new
and deeper” understanding of the nature of gravity.
General relativity was a follow-up to Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity that was published in 1905. This
detailed how one of the fundamental laws of the universe is that nothing can travel faster than the speed of
light. Sir Isaac Newton’s theories predict that if one were able to take the Sun and shake it, “like some cosmic
maraca,” that the planets of the solar system would instantly shake along in sympathy, pulled by the Sun’s
gravity. The Smithsonian Magazine reports that “Einstein would have none of it.” Armed with his knowledge
that nothing could outrun light from his work with special relativity, Newton’s prediction that gravity could
outrun light bothered Einstein to no end. Newton reportedly asserted that he understood that his theory was
incomplete; the mystery was there for anyone to tackle for over 200 years. Einstein was the first to refuse to let
it remain unsolved. He is said to have taken up the investigation into the workings of gravity “in earnest” in
1907. Albert Einstein’s general relativity manuscript on display in 2010. Einstein’s answer was to build a
model of space that became warped by matter. The more massive the matter, the more influence it exerted on
space. This could be measured not only by the orbits of planets and other celestial bodies, but by observing
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light from distant stars curve around the sun, visible only during solar eclipses. The fact that matter influences
not only the path traveled by other matter, but also the path traveled by light, was a revolutionary concept.
In an experiment conceived by Sir Frank Watson Dyson in 1917, Sir Arthur Eddington traveled to Príncipe,
located in the Gulf of Guinea, near Africa, to observe a solar eclipse. Another group was set to Sobral, Brazil
in case the group in Principe experienced poor viewing conditions. During a six-minute eclipse on May 29,
1919 both locations experienced clear weather and photographs were taken. When Eddington delivered the
photographs to England for study, the data confirmed Einstein’s general relativity predictions, reports Wired.
Einstein reported that his theory had been confirmed with empirical evidence on November 6, 1919. His name
was not widely known before this date, yet his accomplishment was said to have been front page news the next
day and to have turned Albert Einstein into a “celebrity overnight.”
The month leading up to Einstein’s November 25, 1915 announcement was filled with tension.
Sometime earlier in 1915, Einstein had shared his work with an industrious German mathematician named
David Hilbert. There were fine details concerning the math involved with general relativity that caused
problems for Einstein. The two were reported to have exchanged postcards, remaining cordial, but not hiding
the rivalry that existed between them.
On November 13, Hilbert was reported to have invited Einstein to a Göttingen, Germany, presentation
on November 16 where he would explain the “solution to” Einstein’s “great problem.” Einstein replied to
Hilbert that he would not be able to attend because he had stomach pains. Then, on November 18, Einstein was
said to have received the completed manuscript from Hilbert and to have replied, “The system you furnish
agrees - as far as I can see - exactly with what I found in the last few weeks and have presented to the
Academy.”
Then, on November 25, Einstein revealed the formulas behind the General Theory of Relativity to the
amazement of the scientific community at the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
The manuscript that Hilbert sent to Einstein wasn’t published until months later.
The question of whether the manuscript Hilbert sent to Einstein actually
contained the correct formulas, or if he was “inspired” by Einstein’s announce-
ment on November 25 and changed its contents, has been the subject of debate.
Further fueling the mystery is that the important sections of Hilbert’s original
manuscript, which would have given insight into this mystery, have reportedly
been “snipped away.” Hilbert was reported to have ceded credit for the
General Theory of Relativity to Einstein and to be given his due with a form of
the equations for which both he and Einstein are cited.
