Parth Shastri AU, Education, Science and Technology

Too hot to handle: High temperature hits mating, reproduction in fruit flies

Published on July 9, 2021 AHMEDABAD: If the current hot and humid weather is making Amdavadis uneasy, a new research from the Ahmedabad University (AhdUni) pointed that rising temperatures due to climate change may be a life and death matter for the tiny insects that are highly susceptible to heat shocks. Two recently-published studies claimed … Continue reading Too hot to handle: High temperature hits mating, reproduction in fruit flies

Parth Shastri Health, Science and Technology

Ahmedabad: Innovation to make eye surgeries easier

Published on July 5, 2021 AHMEDABAD: A city-based couple along with their colleagues were granted a patent for their forceps for iris claw lenses by the Patent Office of the Government of India on July 2. The innovation will help eye surgeons during complicated cataract surgeries. The patent has been granted to Dr Deepika Singhal, … Continue reading Ahmedabad: Innovation to make eye surgeries easier

Parth Shastri Education, PDPU, Science and Technology

‘17 geothermal energy sites in Gujarat can be exploited with good returns on investment’

Published on June 20, 2021 AHMEDABAD: We may know about hot water springs at Tulsishyam or Lasundra, but there are 17 sites in Gujarat where geothermal energy can be exploited with good returns on investment, Gujarat’s first geothermal atlas highlights. The atlas was created by the Centre of Excellence for Geothermal Energy (CEGE) at PDEU, … Continue reading ‘17 geothermal energy sites in Gujarat can be exploited with good returns on investment’

Parth Shastri Education, GBRC, IIT Gandhinagar, Science and Technology

Ahmedabad: Bacteria and fungi that snack on plastic found on Mt Pirana

Published on March 10, 2021 AHMEDABAD: A potential weapon in the war against plastic waste has been found here in Ahmedabad. A group of researchers has found tiny plastic-eating bacteria at Pirana, which can be engineered to cut the city’s garbage mountain to size. In the first such study at the solid waste management (SWM) … Continue reading Ahmedabad: Bacteria and fungi that snack on plastic found on Mt Pirana

Parth Shastri Science and Technology

Khoda pahad, nikla 10m years old chuhiya

Published on February 3, 2021 Ahmedabad: A team of researchers that carefully dug through 1,500kg of fossiliferous rock at Tapar and Pashuda villages near Anjar in Kutch district, were rewarded with proverbial chuhiyas (rats). These were no simple rodents though, as the samples opened a new chapter of the late Miocene age with the remains … Continue reading Khoda pahad, nikla 10m years old chuhiya

Parth Shastri Covid-19, Science and Technology

City-origin researcher leads hunt for novel cure

Published on April 28, 2020 Ahmedabad: As scientists across the locked down world attempt to target coronavirus, an Ahmedabad-origin researcher in the US is leading the effort to lock out the virus from the human body. The popular image of the Covid-19 virus as a sphere with protruding spikes has caught the public imagination. It’s also … Continue reading City-origin researcher leads hunt for novel cure

Parth Shastri Science and Technology

Handheld power: Amdavadis shine at AppFest

AHMEDABAD: The second edition of AppFestwas a win-win for developers and enthusiasts as 40 new applications were developed literally overnight. More than 250 individuals applied their knowledge and talents to come up with new applications - while some succeeded, others went away with the prize of experience. The event organized by Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) came … Continue reading Handheld power: Amdavadis shine at AppFest

Parth Shastri Science and Technology

Autonomy can make us self-sustainable in defence

AHMEDABAD: India has come a long way in defence technology with indigenous projects such as LCA (Tejas), various missile programmes and finally building an aircraft carrier (INS Vikrant) on its own recently. However, most of the nation's budget still goes to foreign coffers due to slow research and development projects and dependence on foreign technology in all three branches … Continue reading Autonomy can make us self-sustainable in defence