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initiatives and also in creating an ecosystem for attracting right talents to the field of research . Potential applications : It can be used research initiatives such as computational chemistry , computational electromagnetic , computational fluid dynamics , civil engineering structures , nana-block selfassemble , optimization etc . It can be also used for Weather , climate modeling and seismic data processing .

MIT scientists develop new technique to find signs of life on Mars :

Scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) US have developed a novel spectroscopic technique to find signs of present or former extraterrestrial life on the Mars . The technique incorporated on instrument dubbed as SHERLOC ( Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals ) may help NASA ’ s new Mars rover to be launched in 2020 to find signs of life on Mars . What will new Mars rover do ? The new Mars rover will be tasked to probe a region of the planet scientists believe could hold remnants of ancient microbial life . It will collect samples of rocks and soil , and store them on the Martian surface and these samples would be returned to Earth so that scientists can meticulously analyse them . The rover can quickly and non-invasively identify sediments on the Mars that are relatively unaltered , and that maintain much of their original composition . How it
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