Why in the news? Recently, The Konkan region, including Mumbai, has been experiencing sweltering heat, with the maximum temperatures touching the 40 degrees mark. What is a heatwave? A region or locality is considered to be under the influence of …
Why in News: The Ukraine-Russia conflict is expected to further impact the already stressed global semiconductor supply as raw material exported from the two countries such as neon gas, chemical C4F6 and palladium. Effects Ukraine crisis will result in shortages …
Why in News: India will soon scour the ocean bed to unravel the mysteries of the origins of life as scientists are set to travel up to 6,000 metres below the sea surface under a deep ocean mission (DOM). About …
Why in News: The United States approved a $200-million arms package for Ukraine, which would include US-made Stinger Missiles, which are a type of shoulder-fired Man-Portable Air-Defence Systems (MANPADS). What are MANPADS? Man-Portable Air-Defence Systems are short-range, lightweight and portable …
What are solar spicules These are jets of plasma, shooting out from the Sun’s outermost layer – the Chromosphere – and making incursions into its atmosphere. Solar spicules rise like forests from the Sun’s Chromosphere and pierce the Sun’s atmosphere …
What is it? SARAS is a niche high-risk high-gain experimental effort of Raman Research Institute to detect extremely faint radio wave signals from the depths of time, from our “Cosmic Dawn” when the first stars and galaxies formed in the …
Why in the news? In a landmark surgery in the United States , doctors replaced the heart of a 57-year-old patient with the heart of a genetically altered pig. Cross-species transplant(or)Xenotransplantation Xenotransplantation is “any procedure that involves the transplantation, implantation …
Why in News: The first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig has died, two months after the groundbreaking experiment. Prior attempts at such transplants — or xenotransplantation — have failed largely because patients’ bodies rapidly rejected the …
About TB TB continues to be one of India’s severest health challenges. India has a large number of ‘missing’ cases every year that are not detected or reported. In 2018, the Government of India started a holistic initiative to End …