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Friday, March 29, 2024
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Kashmir Science

Identifying and profiling the scientists from Jammu and Kashmir and detailing the struggles they put in to make doing science their career, this section highlights their contributions to the world knowledge pool across diverse spheres of science. It also includes reportage about innovation and incubation and profiles of various innovators.

Budding Innovator

Kashmiris might be soon warming themselves with a technology-driven Solar Kangri, the traditional firepot of the valley created by Idrees-ul-Beigh, a young engineer from...

Kashmir Scholar Bags Rare US Fellowship, Will Work With Pharma Giant Moderna

by Yawar Hussain SRINAGAR: Dr Javid Iqbal, a resident of Quil village of Bandipora has bagged the prestigious Northeastern University fellowship in the United States...

Building a glacier

Known as the ice man of Ladakh, Chewang Norfel has created at least five artificial glaciers to replenish water scarcity created by global warming....

‘Genetics May Help Humans Live A Long Life’

From a south Kashmir school to Canada’s Laval University, Dr Abdul Wajid has dedicated his research career to a better understanding of genes. To...

Computer Doctor

After completing his PhD in Computer Science, Syed Iqbal landed a Post Doctorate Fellowship in the subject - a first for a Kashmir resident. Shazia...

AI-Enabled Searches

Artificial intelligence is now hugely in use in search engines. Google and Microsoft are outwitting each other in the use of AI to enhance...

‘We Are Nearly Successful In Creating Gene-edited, Cloned Embryos of High Yeilding Pashmina Goats’

Since 1997 when the first cloned mammal was born in Europe, there have been many abortive bids to use the technology in India. It...

Data Matters

A young Kashmir data scientist currently serving a British crypto-currency platform said the AI will make lives easier but will raise the bar for...

The Innovative Parrays

A man follows his father’s footsteps and creates unique innovations. Originality and genius span the generations—and as Majid Maqbool reports—so does the struggle without...

‘Predicting Earthquake Is A Myth’

Kashmir-born young scientist, Dr Jawad Fayaz, who did his PhD from the University of California, Irvine, USA and worked as a postdoctoral research scientist...

‘Saffron Is Anti-carcinogenic; Can Delay Alzheimer’s and is Used in Treating Depression’

A leading plant scientist, Dr Nasheman Ashraf, currently Principal Scientist at CSIR-IIM, was the first to create a data bank of 64000 Saffron genes...

Kashmir Scientists’ Team Develops Crucial Tool That Helps Understand Brain Disorders

SRINAGAR: A Kashmiri researcher at the Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) has led a team of scholars in developing an optogenetic tool that can help...

Beyond Universe

From his dimly lit office chamber Dr Sheikh Javid has successfully explored the unexplored part of the universe. Saima Bhat talks to the genius...

A Potato Culture

Working in SKUAST-K’s potato laboratory, a scholar was desperate for the MS media, a key ingredient for tissue culture but the lab lacked funds....

‘We Are Exploring Ways and Means to Generate Novel Vaccines Against Plant Diseases.’

After spending seven years at the world-famous Max Plank Institute of Biochemistry (Munich Germany) researching Rubisco, the most abundant protein on earth and deconstructing...