Param Foundation and ForceGW have signed an MoU to expand access to hands-on science learning for government school students.
Delighted to welcome students from Kannamangala Govt School on a visit sponsored by ForceGW.
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Today in India's recent scientific past...
1969 - The nationalization of major Indian banks took place. While primarily an economic event, this reshaped the infrastructure that funded several scientific and technological developments in India.
2012 - India's National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute announced its new development in biotechnology, producing biofortified wheat. This wheat variant contains enhanced levels of iron and zinc, addressing micronutrient malnutrition in the country.
2016 - The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully tested the supersonic combustion ramjet, or Scramjet, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota. This technology aims to make spaceplanes more efficient.
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Shakuntala Devi, the human computer.
She gave the 23rd root of a 201 digit number in 50 seconds. The answer was verifiedby the UNIVAC 1101 computer, for which a special program had to be written
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Moonquakes – as they are known on the moon – are produced as a result of meteoroids hitting the surface or by the Earth's gravitational pull squeezing and stretching the moon's interior, in a similar way to the moon's tidal pull on Earth's oceans.
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