What’s in News: Researchers from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have developed a way to make bricks from Martian soil with the help of bacteria and urea. These ‘space bricks’ can be …
Why in News: IISER professor Deepak Dhar becomes first Indian to win Boltzmann Medal. About the award The Commission on Statistical Physics of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) presents this medal once in three years for …
Why in News: The PSLV C-52 carrying the Earth Observation Satellite, EOS – 04, the INS-2TD, a technology demonstrator from ISRO and the INSPIREsat-1, a student satellite, lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre. About the satellites The INS-2TD …
Why in News: Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is gearing up for a number of missions in 2022. What are the missions? These include the launch of the Earth Observation Satellites, EOS-4 and EOS-6 on board the Polar Satellite Launch …
What’s in News: Skyroot Aerospace successfully tested Dhawan-1 and became the country’s first privately developed fully cryogenic rocket engine running on two high-performance rocket propellants — liquid natural gas (LNG) and liquid oxygen (LoX). The indigenous engine was developed using …
What are they? The natural world is analog while computing is digital. Computers perceive the natural world through sensorchips whose output is analog. The analog output is converted into the language of computers through a digitizer chip or an analog …
Who is he? Thanu Padmanabhan is an Indian astrophysicist who tweaked Albert Einstein’s theory of gravitation to explain dark energy. Prof Thanu Padmanabhan was also honoured with a Padma Shri. Dark energy is the name given to the mysterious force …
What is decomposition? When a plant, animal, or insect dies, that plant, animal, or insect is broken into tiny pieces and those pieces become part of the soil. This is called decomposition. Bacteria, fungi, and some worms break down dead …
About Chandrayaan 2 Chandrayaan 2 is an Indian lunar mission that attempted to conduct a soft landing on the Moon’s south polar region. Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) launched Chandrayaan 2, a mission comprising an orbiter and a soft lander …