What’s in News: Microsoft said it had disrupted cyberattacks from a Russian nation-state hacking group called ‘Strontium’ after it targeted Ukrainian firms, media organisations, government bodies, and think tanks in the U.S. and the EU. More about Strontium Strontium, also …
Why in the news? Recently, a team of researchers from Stanford University have said that on one of Jupiter’s moons Europa, a prime candidate for life in the solar system, there might be an abundance of water pockets beneath formations …
Why in News: Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru, researchers have found support for one way to understand the aberrant behaviour of Blue Straggler stars. For this, the researchers also made use of the observations by the UVIT instrument (UltraViolet Imaging …
Why in News: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is aiming to carry out a landing experiment (LEX), a critical component of the Reusable Launch Vehicle-Technology Demonstration (RLV-TD) programme About the experiment RLV-LEX involves taking an unmanned, winged prototype to …
Why in News: According to one of the experts who worked with Paris-based consultancy Systra on the feasibility report for the Silverline Project, Kerala should investigate the possibility of introducing tilting trains on existing broad gauge rail tracks, which would …
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 the news? Nearly two decades ago, when scientists published the map of the human genome for the first time, it was hailed as a breakthrough. That was incomplete, however: about 8% of the human DNA was left unsequenced. …
Why in News: Google Pay has recently launched a new feature in India, ‘Tap to pay for UPI’. The feature makes use of Near Field Communication (NFC) technology. The functionality will allow users with NFC-enabled Android smartphones and UPI accounts …
What’s in News: The results of a study to understand the pace of evolution, titled — “direct observation of adaptive tracking on ecological timescales — in Drosophila” was published in the journal Science. Taking fruit flies ( Drosophila melanogaster) as …