This is mainly concerned with the cultural mapping of cuisines of the tribal/ Adivasi communities of Kerala. A cultural mapping to understand the culinary habits of the native tribal population will help in sensitizing the people regarding the necessity to preserve and cultivate the natural and ethnic products, which will ultimately help in guaranteeing food sufficiency. In the post-pandemic world, where people are more concerned with health and lifestyle diseases, embracing one’s roots through the culinary will help in guaranteeing a healthy generation.

India has the largest dairy industry in the world and accounts for a significant share of the global emission of livestock methane (CH4), a potent greenhouse gas (GHG). While previous works have examined the large-scale livestock CH4 emissions in India, bottom-up studies are essential to account for the diverse farm conditions and practices across the subcontinent. We developed a Methane Calculator for Indian livestock sector using the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Tier 2 methodology for estimating methane emissions from enteric fermentation and manure management.

Access, equity, affordability, and cost effectiveness are the watchwords of Indian healthcare system. Telemedicine in India is still in its stage of infancy but the impact of Covid 19 pandemic increased the acceptance, demand, and expansion of the Telemedicine technology. In the wake of Covid 19 Pandemic the entire health care system of India is undergoing changes and the need of Telemedicine is significant in this scenario.

Space programmes all over the globe bring in the scientific, technological, industrial, and security capabilities and have been conceived as important tools used to enhance the socioeconomic development through their use of applications in the civilian domain.

Space programmes all over the globe bring in the scientific, technological, industrial, and security capabilities and have been conceived as important tools used to enhance the socioeconomic development through their use of applications in the civilian domain.

The Kerala government launched its ambitious virtual learning programme, with the help of Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE), targeting 4.5 million students in the state from 1 June 2020. The step was both challenging and progressive, considering the digital divide in the state. This study examines the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the education of Adivasi communities in Kerala.

The extragalactic background light (EBL) is the radiation at all wavelengths accumulated throughout the entire age of the Universe. The full spectrum of EBL captures the energy released by all stars and active supermassive blackholes (quasars), as well as the energy absorbed and reprocessed by the dust and gas in between. Direct observations of the EBL are only possible in the local Universe (see figure below for local observations and our model), and impossible at extreme UV wavelengths because of the shielding from the interstellar medium of our Milky-Way.

The Global View of Star Formation in the Milky Way (GLOSTAR) survey is a blind survey of the Galactic Plane in the 4 – 8 GHz range of frequencies using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array, carried out by an international collaboration including IIST. The data are taken with the telescope being in both D and B configurations in order to get good resolution along with sensitivity at large angular scales.

A supernova explosion heralds the death of a massive star and a supernova remnant represents the heated leftover gaseous matter of this event in the neighbourhood. The supernova remnant G351.7, was discovered using GMRT by a team led by IIST. In addition, a jet of atomic hydrogen has been found emanating from a region in the supernova remnant G351.7 in a follow-up study. This is the first time that such a highly collimated HI jet from a SNR has been detected.

Globular clusters are the best laboratories to study the evolution of stars. The globular cluster NGC 2808 was studied in ultraviolet using the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) on-board AstroSat by a team led by IIST researchers. Using different wavebands (filters), the team discovered the presence of a distinct group of red horizontal branch stars in the cluster, which sheds light on the understanding of multiple populations within the cluster.