Using a simple self-forming technique, scientists at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research in Bengaluru, an autonomous institute of the Indian government's Department of Science and Technology, developed a new approach for fabricating an artificial synaptic network (ASN) that resembles a biological neural network (the device structure is formed by itself while heating). The JNCASR team looked into a material system that imitated neuronal bodies and axonal network connections, similar to the biological system, to fabricate a synaptic device for neuromorphic applications with a straightforward fabrication technique. They discovered that constructing such a structure via a self-forming mechanism was straightforward, scalable, and cost-effective. The JNCASR team used dewetted Silver (Ag) metal to construct branched islands and nanoparticles with nanogap separations that looked like bio neurons and neurotransmitters in their research. Dewetting is the rupturing of a continuous film into isolated/disconnected islands or spherical particles.

New Delhi: Indian scientists are using artificial intelligence (AI) to develop a smart diagnostics system to predict the onset of Alzheimer's disease early. Professor Pravat Mandal and his group at the National Brain Research Centre (NBRC), and Neuroimaging and Neurospectroscopy Laboratory (NINS) are together working to develop a model to map metabolic patterns in different brain regions in healthy and pathological conditions. Alzheimer's disease is a chronic degenerative brain disorder. Alzheimer's disease is an irreversible progressive brain degenerative disorder. It manifests as cognitive deterioration and associated behavioral disturbances, leading to impairment of activities of daily living.

Noted Indian scientists from the National Brain Research Centre (NBRC), and Neuroimaging and Neurospectroscopy Laboratory (NINS) are using artificial intelligence to develop a smart system to predict Alzheimer's disease early. According to a report in Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, Professor Pravat Mandal are working to develop a model to map metabolic patterns in different brain regions in healthy and pathological conditions. Alzheimer's is the most common form of dementia, a general term for memory loss and other cognitive abilities serious enough to interfere with daily life. The greatest known risk factor is increasing age, and the majority of people with Alzheimer's are 65 and older. But Alzheimer's is not just a disease of old age.

NEW DELHI – Scientists from Britain and India will release underwater robots into the Bay of Bengal in a bid to more accurately predict India's monsoon, an event critical to millions of farmers, they said Tuesday. Researchers will also fly a plane packed with scientific equipment over the bay to measure the atmosphere as part of the multimillion-dollar study of the monsoon, which hit southern India last week. Better forecasting will improve the livelihoods of India's more than 200 million farmers and agricultural laborers, who are reeling from a devastating drought. Scientists from the University of East Anglia will release seven underwater robots from an Indian ship next week to study how ocean processes influence monsoon rainfall. At the same time, colleagues from the University of Reading and climate experts in India will use instruments on board the plane flying from the southern city of Bangalore to measure heat and moisture in the air.