Dementia Diagnosis, Price of Data, Creating Super-Alloys, Measuring Coating Degradation and more ...

Weekly Newsletter | Issue #7 - 12 Feb, 2025

Feb 12, 2025

Greetings from Research Matters!

This week, the world observed the 10th anniversary of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Although India produces the largest number of women graduates in the world, we still have a long way to achieving gender equality. Check out our story and infographic to know more.

Check out our weekly stories on early diagnosis of dementia with machine learning, a framework for pricing and trading data, a new tool to create super-alloys without rare and expensive materials, and a new method to measure the rate of degradation of metal coatings. There are also stories from other media and events happening this week. Don’t forget to check out Scidle - the science wordle, for a new science word every day. If you have events/talks workshops that you would like us to add to the newsletter, please hit us up on any of our social media channels or email.

Stories in this edition

IISc scientists investigate early signs of dementia to help delay Its onset | IISc

Researchers from IISc have studied the behavioural and physiological changes in the brains of persons showing early signs of dementia to understand and aid early diagnosis.

Data is the new Oil, but how much is it worth? | IIT Kanpur, IISc

Researchers from IIT Kanpur and IISc have created a framework for pricing and trading data.

A new framework to balance performance and sustainability in alloy design | IIT Guwahati, University of Leeds, others

Researchers have used machine learning and optimization tools to create new super-alloys without any rare and expensive materials.

International Day of Women and Girls in Science: Closing the gender gap in STEM

The United Nations observes the International Day of Women and Girls in Science on February 11. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the day, and the theme is ‘Unpacking STEM Careers: Her Voice in Science’.

Featured Article

IIT Bombay researchers use new technique to measure rate of degradation of coatings on iron | IIT Bombay

Combining two electrochemical techniques, hydrogen permeation-based potentiometry (HPP) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), the researchers efficiently measured the coating degradation rates on the industrially relevant metal.