Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Western Ghats Region at Risk from Rapid Soil Erosion

The first-of-a-kind study has used remote sensing data to quantify long-term soil losses across the entire Western Ghats region.

The Western Ghats Region (WGR) is a unique lan...

Indian Flavours of Attosecond Physics

Contributions of IIT Bombay researcher to the field that won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics

We, humans, discovered a world of wonders when we were able to see ob...

Breaking ground in wastewater disease surveillance

A new portable DNA sensor to detect viral and bacterial pathogens in sewers and water bodies

Scientists from the Indian Institute of...

IIT Bombay’s Marigold-like nanostructured material demonstrates the highest solar heat absorption

The material converts over 87% of light falling on it into usable heat energy.

Heat or thermal energy is a fundamental form of energy essential for life. Human...

Shifting Towards Scaled Decentralisation: The Future of Urban Water Infrastructure

The new study suggests that a paradigm shift towards scaled decentralised systems is necessarytoachievesustainability and resiliencein urban waterinfrastructure.

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A Mathematical Technique to Fix Shaky Videos

A new algorithm removes effects of unintended motion from videos shot with small robots or drones

Test setup using a spherical robot (diameter 20 cm.) with camera (front view)...

Prof. Debabrata Maiti of IIT Bombay awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize 2022

The SSB Prize 2022 to Prof. Debabrata Maiti of IIT Bombay is in recognition of his work on valorisation.

Prof. Debabrata Maiti, Professor at the Department of...

A counterintuitive chemical reaction to simplify the production of biologically important compounds

The reaction simplifies the production of pharmaceutically important molecules called lactones and other complex compounds.

Scientists from the Indian Institut...