An award-winning successful scientist, a dancer and a loving mother; here is all you need to know about Dr. Sangeeta Bhatia who received the Heinz Award in Technology, the Economy and Employment category. Dr. Sangeeta Bhatia receives the Heinz Award in Technology, the Economy and Employment category, for her seminal work in tissue engineering and disease detection, including the cultivation of functional liver cells outside of the human body, […]

Researchers led by engineering professor Animesh Dutta, director of the Bio-Renewable Innovation Lab at the University of Guelph in Canada, have found a solution: pressure cooking. Cooking farm waste — especially ‘wet’ waste such as corn husks, tomato vines and manure — can turn it into biofuels to produce energy, researchers led by an Indian-origin scientist have found. Dry farm waste, such as wood chips or sawdust, is easier to […]

Washington:  Defying gravitational forces, an Indian-origin scientist-led team has developed a new way of making surfaces that can actively control how fluids or particles move across them. The discovery may enable new kinds of biomedical or microfluidic devices or solar panels that could automatically clean themselves of dust and grit. “Most surfaces are passive. They rely on gravity or other forces to move fluids or particles,” said Kripa Varanasi, an […]