India appoints 'part-time' science minister

EU appoints Ebola coordinator.

The European Union is stepping up its efforts to tackle the Ebola crisis in west Africa by appointing an overall coordinator, increasing funding, and deploying more medical and support staff to the region. The issue was high on the agenda of the EU leaders’ summit meeting in Brussels on 23 and 24 October. They agreed that, with the first confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease in Europe, protect...

Science and India

Medical Science in India

Science in Ancient India

‘Veda’ means knowledge. Since we call our earliest period Vedic, this is suggestive of the importance of knowledge and science, as a means of acquiring that knowledge, to that period of Indian history. For quite some time scholars believed that this knowledge amounted to no more than speculations regarding the self; this is what we are still told in some schoolbook accounts. New insights in arc...

College Science in India

The reduction in number of electrodes usage is a significant advancement in Brain computer Interface (BCI) research if not compromised with quality. The two major advantages of reducing the number of electrodes are the operational flexibility and reduction of volume in the feature date involved. The experiment results of a BCI are analyzed with two different electrode configurations and the fin...