ITC to Invest Rs 100 Cr. in Renewable Energy 

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 In a bid to reduce its dependence on fossil fuel, FMCG major ITC Ltd.. plans to invest Rs. 100 core in renewables over the next two years. 

Renewable energy, which currently accounts for about 38 precent of ITC'S total consumption, is Estimated to meet up to 50 per cent of its total energy requirement in the next five years. The company has installed close to 70 MW of wind power projects across India and a 90 tone - per hour biomass fire boiler at a total investment of approximately Rs. 400 crore. 

source :-  The Hindu 

                    U.S. Approves Anti- HIV Drug 

The U.S. food and drug Administration on July 17 made history as it  gave its first ever nod for an Anti-HIV Drug, Trivada, to pharmaceutical firm Gilead sciences. Truvada is known chemically as a fixed dose, daily intake combination of entricitabine and  tenofavir disoproxit fumarate. since 2004 it has been marketed as a breatment  for those already infected with HIV.

Source :-  The Hindu 

Artificial  Jellyfish :- A  Saviour for heart Patients 

Scientists unveiled on July 22, 2012 . on artificial jellyfish created using cells from rat hearts and a seer Polymer film.the new invention could one day save patients with heart diseases.the  exploit marks Significant advance in so- called biomimicry in which a natural phenomenon inspires innovations in the  Laboratory. 'the interest in jellyfish originats from its. remarkable swimming ability , which comes from Muscles that open it's bell like body and their contracts it, this ejecting water and propelliry the creature forward. It is an extremely simple and energy - efficient procedure. offering insights for scientists trying to make small, reliable heart pumps for the future. 

source -  The Hindu 

      Glaciers  in the Himalayas are Shrinking rapidly - UMSEF        

   According to a new study, majority of glaciers in the tibetan plateau and the surrounding regions are retreating. The tibetan plateau and surrounding regions contain most of the world's glaciers out- sind the polar region.

The scientists found that the tibetan plateau and surrounding regious exhibited systematic differences in glacial shrinkage. the most intensive shrinkage is found in the himalayas (excluding the Karakoram). Here the reduction is greatest both  in terms of length and area, and also the difference between ice accumulation and loss (mass balance). In contrast, The least reduction is seen in  the pamir plateau.

   

source - UMSEF 

     Kalka - Shimla  Heritage toy train gets Solar lighting System -

The Kalka -Shimla toy train, himalayan queen, became the first in the country to have coaches operating on on solar-based power system in june2012. each coach was fitted with a 100- watt soar panel at a coast of Rs.1.25 lakh, enabling the coaches to run for two days without the sun and make two trips to Shimla. the railways will also earn carbon credits through this green initiative, the 96- km Kalka- Shimla track is on the heritage list of UNESCO. The train, passing through 102 tunnels and crossing 864 bridges, is considered on engineering marvel.

source - The Hindu 

         

                          Higgs Boson  (GOD) Particle

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    On july4,2012 Scientists finally locked onto Higgs boson, the 'God particle' a discovery  that crowns The global scientific community's most challenging and comprehensive quest for the subatomic particle rightly regarded as "the key to the cosmic riddle. Scientists at CERN  (european organization for nuclear research.) Geneva, announced the discovery on july4, in the presence of a tearful peter Higgs and many other scientists. the break through has been described as the biggest leap in physics. 

What is a Higgs boson ?

It enables particles in atoms to help invest them with mass, The basic building blocks of the  universe, 

which include everything from the lowliest of micro- organisms, through soil, water, minerals, plants, trees, insects, animals and mountains  to the most complex life forms including humans, even entire planets and galaxies.

Higgs boson is named after peter Higgs, and Satyendra Nath  Bose,

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The discovery can been likened  that of the electron, a subatomic particle, the idler first being floated in 1838, but its presence was confirmed only after 60 years.  central to the discovery is the large hadron collider (LHC) the world's  largest and most powerful particle accelerator, housed in a massive 27 km circular tunnel some 175 meters underground near Geneva. It was built by cern from 1998 to 2008.the LHC smashes beams of sub-atomic particles such as protons virtually at the speed of light, recreating conditions that existed for a billionth of a second after the big bang, heralding the birth of the universe, Scientists say the missing cornerstone of physics has been discovered with the identification of a subatomic particle called the Higgs boson which could help explain why all matter has mass.

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        Scientists Make Robot that have Human Emotions 

Scientists at the university of pisa, Italy, said on july 16, 2012 that they had edged  closer to the goal of creating a human like robot the announcement was made after the robot they had made successfully  displayed an array of human emotions  ranging from fear to happiness. It took about 30 years of research for the scientists to come  up with the robot.

The robot, modeled on a female human, is named FACE, It uses 32 motors in its face to simulate different expressions It can perform this routine in so  accurately striking a manner that it can almost look like a human. It depends an a software that mimics human emotional responses. the robot tells the motors how to respond in order to recreate  a specific look, and the special software then mixes the various emotions to produce the desired type of emotion, 

The team led by researcher nicole hazzeri, modeled the robot on the wife of one of the team members. according to the daily mail, scientists present during the experiment termed the emotion. simulating performance of the FACE robot as "very realistic '.

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source :- Daily Mail.