Innovation

Doctors have struggled for years in doing spinal surgery with accuracy. They have succeeded several times but there are incidences of failure as well. Robots can undertake the job of spinal surgery with great degree of accuracy. A robot for spinal surgery has been created by the Nottingham Trent University. The team that has created this robot is lead by Professor Philip Breedon. He is the head of Medical Design Research Group. His team has come up with a robot that can drill holes in vertebrae of human being in…

India Science Wire Indian researchers have developed a biodegradable film using lotus stem starch, whey protein concentrate, and psyllium husk that has high structural integrity and low solubility. Starch can form continuous matrix and has been considered an important polymer due to low cost and renewability. But films made from starch alone have low-mechanical strength and high water vapour content. In this study, researchers used starch along with whey protein and psyllium husk (isabgol) to make a biodegradable film. The stem of lotus plant was used as a source of…

India Science Wire A team of scientists at the Bengaluru-based Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) have developed a new technique that promises to produce hydrogels that could be used for a variety of applications like cleaning of industrial wastewater.   The method involves self-assembly of tiny cubes of metal-organic compounds into hydrogels with the help of molecular binders. The makeup of the resulting hydrogel depends on the size, shape and geometry of the molecular binder.   For instance, when researchers used cationic ammonia-based molecular binder, the resulting…

How fascinating will it be if don’t have to face any language barriers? The world will become a more beautiful and socially active place to live in. Now roaming around the globe will not be a hectic task with these AI-Powered Babel-fish in-ear translator. While slashing out all linguistic barriers and making it possible for two people to communicate with each other in different native languages can ease the conversation level. Suppose you are enjoying your world tour and you are in France with zero knowledge of French and you…