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 …
Why in News: The Russian invasion is making the global chip shortage situation worse. How did the shortage crisis begin? After reaching its peak in 2011, the laptop market growth slowed down with the rise of alternatives such as smartphones …
Context: The recent publication of The Lancet’s global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance highlights the necessity of a robust AMR policy. What does the report say? It estimated that 4.95 million deaths were associated with bacterial AMR in 2019 alone. …
Why in News: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has announced plans to retire and decommission the International Space Station (ISS) by 2031. About ISS The ISS was launched in 1998 as part of joint efforts by the U.S., …