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 …
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 …