About IIST and Conscientia
Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, a premier institution under the Indian Space Research
Organization (ISRO), is proud to present its annual technology and astronomy festival, Conscientia
2011. This festival is the only fest in the country with an entire section devoted to astronomy and space
sciences. It is being held from 3rd to 6th March 2011 at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

Events
From RC planes to robo-wars, from hacking to cracking, from mechanisms to electric circuits,
Conscientia’s events are sure to enthrall any genre of students. Add to this, a total prize money of worth
Rs. 3,00,000 and you have one of the largest technical festivals in the country.

With the Worldcup football fever entering to the next level of excitement in the pre quarter stage, the big football tournament in South Africa is dripping with stories like a thick layer of frosting on a 10-foot high cake. Will brilliant Brazilian goal-keeper Julio Cesar lead his team to the Cup title? Will Ghana’s Kevin-Prince Boateng, born of a German mother and Ghanaian father, find himself opposing his half-brother Jerome, who plays for Germany and is in the same grouping as Ghana?These stories and much more are instantly available for free on Nokia S60 5th Edition and widget-enabled S60 3rd Edition devices through ESPNsoccernet.

BarCamp Kerala 8 will be held on 28^th March, 2010 at MACFAST, Thiruvala Finally its here to refresh the minds with technical beverages – its Barcamp time.

Don’t know what a barcamp is?

BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences – open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants – often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.

Wikipedia

Venue

BCK 8 will be held at MACFAST, Thiruvala. More details are available at the venue page

Orkut , this free-access social networking service is loved by all of us and virtually many we know live in it . Orkut is unique, because it’s an organically growing network of trusted friends. That way we won’t grow too large, too quickly and everyone will have at least one person to vouch for them. But its sad that some find fun in hacking this world of ours for personal and non-personal reasons [:-( ] , they may range from people we know to strangers far across the globe ,but my friends do u know that along with our orkut ID you may end up loosing your email account and many valuable informations regarding you ? .Well, if you don’t , believe it –its for real. Let me help the friends among us who needs a help in protecting their account and orkut freely and safley as it should be  .

Hubble, the astronomer, looked beyond the boundaries of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, and discovered that the universe is much larger than we thought. Hubble, the telescope, has peered even farther into the outer reaches of our universe, further enhancing our understanding of the cosmos.

Cornell researcher Michael King has developed an implantable device that captures and kills cancerous blood cells as they travel throughout the body, halting their spread. He calls the device a “lint brush” for the blood. King, who is an associate professor of biomedical engineering says the implantable cancer-killing device takes advantage of the body’s natural ability to fight infection, and might be used to treat a variety of cancers.

I might sound crazy, but am I really? I came across this article recently and did a lot of googling and finally I am writing about it.

A mobile battery can be charged using two peepal leaves.

Charging Mobile with Leaves

However unbelievable it may sound, people who came to learn about this tested it, and found encouraging results.

You would have to take out your mobile battery from the handset and connect it with peepal leaf. After that without shaking mobile set the battery should be placed back in the handset. After some time your mobile would be charged.

Many scientists have tried to use the cloning technique to bring back the extinct  species like ,u noe, woolly mammoths.But  unfortunately they  had to throw in the towel..cos firstly,the DNA of these animals have degraded cos of the ice crystals and  they  cudnt isolate the live cells from the obtained fossils..

BUT the time has come for the resurrection from the permafrost…

recently ,scientists Teruhiko Wakayama at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe and co-workers have successfully cloned a mice from  cells that remained  frozen for 16 yrs and that too at a temp below -20 °C . Isn’t tat amazing…

Biotechnology may be as old as human civilization but modern biotechnology is less than three decades old. Traditional Biotechnology that led to the development of processes for producing products like yogurt, Vinegar, alcohol and cheese was entirely empirical and bereft of any understanding of the mechanisms that led to the product. There was no possibility of a deliberate design to produce a desired new product.