Context Non fungible tokens (NFTs) have, thanks to their ability to assign value to everything from art to music to a simple selfie, taken the world by storm. The sales of NFTs surged $25 billion in 2021 as the crypto …
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. …
Context One of the three persons diagnosed with Lassa fever in the UK died recently. What is Lassa fever and how does it spread? The Lassa fever-causing virus is found in West Africa and was first discovered in 1969 in …
Why in News: The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted its first star. The first picture sent back of the cosmos is far from stunning: 18 blurry white dots on a black background, all showing the same object: HD 84406 …
Why in News: ISRO plans to place, into orbit, an Earth Observation Satellite (EOS – 04) on board the PSLV C-52 Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) is the third generation launch vehicle of India. It is a four-staged launch vehicle …
What are they? Solar storms/wind are magnetic plasma ejected at great speed from the solar surface. They occur during the release of magnetic energy associated with sunspots (‘dark’ regions on the Sun that are cooler than the surrounding photosphere), and …
Why in News: Scientists in the United Kingdom said they have achieved a new milestone in producing nuclear fusion energy, or imitating the way energy is produced in the Sun. A team generated 59 megajoules of sustained energy. 1 Joule …
What is it? It is an initiative spearheaded by the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) in collaboration with ISRO, DRDO, Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and the Indian Navy. …
Context For over two decades, the International Space Station (ISS) has been orbiting Earth at a speed of about eight kilometres per second, while an international crew of astronauts and cosmonauts onboard conducted groundbreaking scientific investigations that have thrown open …