What is GM Crop? A genetically modified organism (GMO) or living modified organism (LMO), is any organism whose genetic material has been modified using laboratory-based transfer of genetic material from another organism. Development of GM crops starts with the identification …
Why in News: A team of Australian researchers have identified a biochemical marker in the blood that could help identify newborn babies at risk for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Babies who died of SIDS had lower levels of an …
What is it? RFID is a passive wireless technology that allows an object or person to be tracked or matched. Tags and Readers are the two main components of the system. The reader sends out radio waves and receives signals …
What’s in News Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope(EHT) facility, a collaboration of over 300 researchers, revealed the first image of the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way. This image of the black hole referred to as …
Why in News: A Boeing 737-800 aircraft of SpiceJet experienced severe turbulence What is it? Turbulence is an irregular motion of the air resulting from eddies and vertical currents. Eddy is nothing but a fluid current which has a different …
Why in News: The mission to Venus is likely to cost between ₹500 crore and ₹1,000 crore depending on the level of instrumentation, said, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) India’s mission to Venus Shukrayaan-1 is a proposed orbiter to Venus …