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Millions of kilometres of pipelines carrying oil, gas and water criss-cross the face of the earth. Making sure that they are in good health requires robots that can crawl through their insides and check if the inner walls have defects. Prof. Bishakh Bhattacharya and his team have a low-cost solution. Its a PIG.

Shruthi Pandey, P Venkitanarayanan and Ishan Sharma are trying to understand the failure mechanism of ice laden with dirt when subjected to sudden, rapid and very large loads. Dirty ice is often the cement binding boulders that make up glacial dams holding huge volumes of water. Understanding how they fail is crucial to modelling ice dam bursts that are known to cause devastation in the high mountains.