Meera Srinivasan Courtesy The Hindu It is not only the government that defended the move, but also Jaffna-based fisher cooperatives. Days after Tamil Nadu fishermen protested Sri Lanka’s efforts to build an artificial reef off Delft island, west of Jaffna peninsula, authorities defended the move aimed at enhancing fish breeding”. Last week, Sri Lanka’s Department […]

by Cassandra Willyard Courtesy Technologyreview.com The hype around scariants” is overblown. But we also shouldn’t be too complacent. On May 10, the World Health Organization added a new virus to its list of covid-19 variants of global concern. The variant, B.1.617, is being blamed for the runaway infections in India. It is the fourth addition […]

By Jonathan Amos BBC Science Correspondent China has successfully landed a spacecraft on Mars, state media announced early on Saturday. The six-wheeled Zhurong robot was targeting Utopia Planitia, a vast terrain in the planet’s northern hemisphere. The vehicle used a combination of a protective capsule, a parachute and a rocket platform to make the descent. The […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror When the first sign of intelligent life first visits us from space, it won’t be a giant saucer hovering over New York. More likely, it will be an alien civilization’s trash.  Avi Loeb, the chair of Harvard’s Department of Astronomy, believes he’s already found some of that garbage.  In his upcoming […]

Rohan Abeygunawardena Professor Ravi P. Silva  (පරිවර්තනය කළේ ගම්පහ ආනන්ද වික්‍රමාරච්චි විසිනි) කොරෝනා වයිරස් හෝ කොවිඩ්19 වසංගතය මුළු ලොවටම අහිතකර ලෙස බලපා බොහෝ රටවල් සම්පූර්ණයෙන් වසා දැමීමට භේතුවී ඇත. දැන් ආර්ථික විශේෂඥයන්  සාකච්ඡා කරන්නේ ‘නව ආර්ථික පිළිවෙලක්’ ස්ථාපිත කිරීම සහ ඉදිරියට යා හැකි මාර්ග පිළිඹඳවය. වර්තමාන පරම්පරාව දැනුවත් කරලීම සඳහා උතුරු මැද පළාතේ වැසි ජලය […]

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By Thameenah Razeek  Courtesy Ceylon Today Minister of Environment, Mahinda Amaraweera, has instructed the Geological Survey and Mines Bureau (GSMB) and the Atomic Energy Board (AEB) to conduct an investigation regarding the claims made by the heads of certain authorities that the sand distributed and sold locally for construction purposes, subsequent to the removal of […]

Courtesy RT Through constant vigilance and some good fortune, astronomers have managed to capture the moment a supermassive black hole in a galaxy 215 million light-years away tore a star apart. The so-called ‘tidal disruption event’ (TDE) is the closest such death of a star humanity has ever witnessed.  Astronomers were alerted by the intense […]

Courtesy RT It turns out that Earth might not be so special after all, as scientists have identified a plethora of planets outside our solar system with conditions that make them more suitable for life than our home. A study published in the journal Astrobiology identified two dozen planets with conditions which may be more […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Skills Development, Vocational Education, Research and Innovation has initiated measures to setup a coordinating unit to bring Technology, Research and Innovation related services closer to the general public, as well as to provide technical guidance in addressing the issues related to the said fields faced by the general public, in pursuance […]

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Courtesy Hiru News A team of officers from the Geological Survey of Sri Lanka visited the Kandy area today to inquire into the unusual tremors that are reported to have occurred in several areas. The tremors have been felt in Kandy, Anuragama, Haragama, Gurudeniya, Thalathuoya and several other areas last night. The tremors were recorded at […]

නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන, වෘත්තීය අධ්‍යාපන,පර්යේෂණ හා නව නිපැයුම් රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය Covid 19 වෛරස් ආසාදිත පුද්ගලයින්ගේ ප්‍රතිකාර සඳහා යොදාගත හැකි දේශීය නව නිර්මාණයක් වූ MCPR යන්ත්‍රය ( Chest Compressor Machine)  අද දින නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන, වෘත්තීය අධ්‍යාපන, පර්යේෂණ හා නව නිපැයුම් රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය විශේෂඥ වෛද්‍ය සීතා අරඹේපොල මහත්මිය විසින් නිරීක්ෂණය කළා ය.  මෙම යන්ත්‍රය නිර්මාණය කළ කොළඹ විශ්ව […]

Home News Dr. Jay Gunawardana, a Sri lankan-born blood cancer researcher at the University of Queensland (Translational Research Institute in Brisbane, Australia) has received the prestigious American Society of Haematology Global Research Award. This highly sought-after award is the result of a global search for competitive research proposals. It will enable Dr. Gunawardana to investigate […]

By Chandre Dharmawardana Dr. Nalin the Silva refers to an article in the recent issue of Science (dated 11August 2020 although Science is a weekly journal) entitled: Senior U.S. lawmaker wants National Academies to scrutinize racism in science”, and uses this to jump to another topic, which he says is NOT discussed in the above […]

Dr. Gamini Padmaperuma The terms Robotics is often mentioned these days. There were many local inventions that were presented in mass media recently highlighting the possible use of Robotics in health care industry to meet the challenges faced under the COVID -19. The local innovators need to be congratulated and supported to ensure their prototypes […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Institutional collaboration for online training of health professionals was among the subjects discussed Colombo, July 29 (newsin.asia): Dr. Sushil Kumar, First Secretary (Technical Cooperation) in the Indian High Commission met Mrs.H.W.M.Pushpalatha Manike, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Health and Indigenous Medicine Services of Sri Lanka on July 27th, 2020 and discussed cooperation in the […]

By Asha de Vos Courtesy Scientific American Conservation projects in the developing world should invest in local scientific talent and infrastructure As a Sri Lankan marine biologist, I have often found myself challenging stereotypes. At the beginning, some of my fellow Sri Lankans questioned my choice of career path. Despite coming from a tropical island with […]

Aswathi Pacha Courtesy The Hindu Formations like the El Niño of the Pacific Ocean could emerge About 19,000-21,000 years ago, ice-sheets covered North America and Eurasia, and sea-levels were much lower, with Adam’s Bridge exposed so that the Indian subcontinent and Sri Lanka were contiguous. This period, the peak of ice age conditions, is called […]

by Dilrukshi Handunnetti Courtesy Mongabay A new study has finally solved a herpetological mystery surrounding Dendrelaphis bifrenalis, a species of bronzeback snake endemic to Sri Lanka. Researchers have established, through morphological differences and DNA sequencing, that the dry-zone populations of the snake are the true D. bifrenalis, and the wet-zone populations are a species new to […]

by Dilrukshi Handunnetti Courtesy Mongabay Sri Lanka’s southwestern mountains have yielded a new snake species, Dryocalamus chithrasekerai, based on specimens collected in 2009 and 2017. Chithrasekara’s bridle snake, named in honor of local conservationist Nagamulla Hewage Chithrasekara, is the latest species in its genus, which researchers say should be kept taxonomically distinct from another genus of […]

By Jocelyn Kaiser Courtesy Science Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center. COVID-19, caused by the new pandemic coronavirus, is strangely—and tragically—selective. Only some infected people get sick, and although most of the critically ill are elderly or have complicating problems such as heart disease, some killed by the disease are previously healthy and […]

By Tina Hesman Saey Courtesy Science News Scientists took conspiracy theories about SARS-CoV-2’s origins seriously, and debunked them The coronavirus pandemic circling the globe is caused by a natural virus, not one made in a lab, a new study says. The virus’s genetic makeup reveals that SARS-CoV-2 isn’t a mishmash of known viruses, as might be […]

ප්‍රවෘත්ති නිවේදනයයි තාක්ෂණ හා නවොත්පාදන රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශය උසස් අධ්‍යාපන, තාක්ෂණ හා නවෝත්පාදන අමාත්‍යාංශය (MHETI) සහ  තාක්ෂණ හා නවෝත්පාදන රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශය (SMTI) විසින් එම අමාත්‍යාංශ යටතේ ක්‍රියාත්මක රාජ්‍ය පර්යේෂණ ආයතන (GRI), විශ්වවිද්‍යාල සහ පෞද්ගලික අංශයේ සහයෝගීතාවෙන් සංවිධාන කරන  INNOTECH 2020  – තාක්ෂණ හා නවෝත්පාදන ජාතික  ප්‍රදර්ශනය  මාර්තු මස 11 වන දින සිට 14 වන දින දක්වා […]

By Craig Welch Courtesy National Geographic Scientists have found large natural stores of the toxin in the Arctic. It’s not clear how much will get into food webs as the planet warms. Scientists have uncovered another hidden threat buried in the icy frozen north—massive natural reserves of mercury, a toxic heavy metal that in some […]

Emma Davies Courtesy  Proactive Investors Australia he Mannar Island project has power, road and rail infrastructure, is backed by a government supportive of foreign investment and is ideally situated for product export to Asian markets. Panning of RC aircore samples from below the water table at the Mannar Island project Titanium Sands Ltd‘s (ASX:TSL) initial assay […]

ප්‍රවෘත්ති නිවේදනය තාක්ෂණ හා නවෝත්පාදන රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශය රොබෝ තාක්ෂණය සදහා වන විශිෂ්ටතා මධ්‍යස්ථානයේ අඩුපාඩු සකස් කර   දියුණු මධ්‍යස්ථානයක් බවට පත් කිරීමට ඍජුව මැදිහත් වන බව තාක්ෂණ හා නවෝත්පාදන රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය තිලංග සුමතිපාල මහතා පැවසීය. වත්මන් රජය යටතේ තාක්ෂණ හා නවෝත්පාදන රාජ්‍ය  අමාත්‍යාංශය යටතට පත්කර ඇති මෙම ආයතනයේ නිරීක්ෂණ චාරිකාවකට එක්වෙමින් අමාත්‍යවරයා මේ බව ප්‍රකාශ කළේ  […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Project Orange Elephant exploits the elephant’s utter aversion for oranges (and other citrus fruits) to protect farms. By Chathuranga Dharmarathne, Chandima Fernando, Chinthaka Weerasinghe & Ravi Corea Colombo, January 25 (DailyFT/ www.nature.com) : Human-wildlife conflicts are an increasing problem as human land use encroaches on wildlife habitats. Augmenting farmers’ crops with orange trees through […]

ප්‍රවෘත්ති නිවේදනය Media Unit, – State Ministry of Technology and Innovation මෙරට විද්‍යාත්මක හා තාක්ෂණික කරුණු පිළිබඳ ප්‍රමුඛතම ප්‍රතිපත්ති සම්පාදන හා උපදේශන ආයතනය ලෙස සැලකෙන උසස් අධ්‍යාපන, තාක්ෂණ හා නවෝත්පාදන අමාත්‍යාංශය යටතේ ක්‍රියාත්මක වන ජාතික විද්‍යා හා තාක්ෂණ කෙමිෂන් සභාවේ (NASTEC)   නව සභාපතිනිය ලෙස පත් වූ මහාචාර්ය ක්ෂණිකා හිරිඹුරේගම මහත්මිය අද දින (16) මහා සංඝරත්නයේ […]

Media Unit State Ministry of  Technology and Innovation. Thilanga Sumathipala, State Minister of Technology and Innovation said that SLIATE will be converted to a degree awarding institution. He made these remarks at a special discussion held with the representatives of the association of academic staff of SLIATE, focusing on the measures to be taken towards […]