Why in News: Microplastic pollution has been detected in human blood for the first time. The study, published in the journal Environment International, tested 22 anonymous blood samples. What are microplastics? Microplastics are tiny bits of various types of plastic …
Why in News: With space junk posing an increasing threat to Indian assets in space, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is building up its orbital debris tracking capability by deploying new radars and optical telescopes under the Network for …
Why in News: Google is said to be testing support for variable refresh rates (VRR) in the Chrome OS The feature could improve gaming experience What is VRR? Refresh rate is the number of times a display is capable of …
What’s in News: Biologists from Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad (CCMB), have conducted a study to understand how mitochondria became an inseparable part of animal and plant cells. Background of the study Today, mitochondria are well known to …
Why in the news? Recently, the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) chaired by the Defence Minister cleared the Approval for procurement of a GSAT 7B satellite, along with equipment like Night Sight (image intensifier), 4X4 light vehicles, and Air Defence Fire …
What are hypersonic weapons They are manoeuvrable weapons that can fly at speeds of at least Mach 5, five times the speed of sound. The speed of sound is Mach 1, and speeds above Mach I are supersonic and speeds …
About Indian Neutrino Observatory The Indian Neutrino Observatory (INO) is a proposed underground particle physics research mega project. The project was conceived in 2005, a site under the Bodi West Hills in Tamil Nadu’s Theni district was identified by 2009. …
Why in News: Microsoft has partnered with Fortum, a Finnish energy company to heat homes, services and businesses in Finland with sustainable waste heat from a new datacentre region. What is a data centre ? A data centre is a …
About the Mission Announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2018, Gaganyaan is the first Indian Human Space Flight Programme (HSP) with the objective to demonstrate the capability to send humans to low earth orbit on board an Indian launch …