Tenure track system at IITs is a recipe for failure
Flogging a small subset of young faculty to improve research and teaching metrics using the threat of tenure track while leaving the large majority of senior faculty completely unmonitored will…
Category: IIT Bombay
Irrigation, agriculture shift rainfall to northwest India, IIT Bombay finds
IIT Bombay researchers have found the reason why the summer monsoon rainfall has shifted towards northwest India and intensification of extreme rainfall is seen over central India during the month…
Science news on The Hindu website has high readership
Between January 2017 and January 2019, the Science section (excluding health, environment and technology) on The Hindu website got on average 5 lakh readers per month. And even on certain…
IIT Bombay fabricates wearable supercapacitor
IIT Bombay researchers have fabricated wearable supercapcitor which when stitched on any fabric can deliver power ranging from microwatt to milliwatt. The energy stored in the device can power GPS…
IIT Bombay’s bacteria preferentially degrade aromatic compounds
IIT Bombay researchers have used a unique strain of bacterium isolated from soil contaminated with petroleum products to selectively remove toxic aromatic pollutants from the environment. The bacteria devour aromatic…
IIT Bombay team cultures more skin cells in less time
IIT Bombay team uses indigenously developed hydrogel to multiply skin cells (keratinocytes). In contrast to plastic plates where cells grew to 1 million in 10 days, the hydrogel produced 20…
Podcast – Sniffing out lung cancer
IIT Bombay researchers explain how the platform that they developed will help sniff out volatile organic compounds in a gas phase at single molecular levels. Since certain organic compounds in exhaled…
IIT Bombay’s platform sniffs out lung cancer, explosives
IIT Bombay researchers have developed a platform that will help sniff out volatile organic compounds in a gas phase at single molecular levels. Detecting certain organic compounds in exhaled breath will…
