Why in News: Researchers from IIT Madras and IISER Kolkata have developed a method to detect minute quantities of chemicals in solution. How did they achieve this They use a variation of absorption spectroscopy that surpasses the systemic limits imposed …
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. …
What is food fortification? Food fortification is defined as the practice of deliberately increasing the content of an essential micronutrient, i.e. vitamins and minerals (including trace elements) in a food, to improve the nutritional quality of the food supply and …
What’s in the news? Recently, seven people were killed, 17 injured and over 35 missing after a cloudburst hit a remote village of Jammu and Kashmir. Cloudburst events have been reported from several places in J&K, Union Territory of Ladakh, …
Why in News? Indian scientists have found a theoretical model explaining a unique kind of motion, called direction reversing active motion, exhibited by some bacteria. How does a bacteria move Bacteria move by propelling themselves with a velocity that changes …
Why in News? Scientists from the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) Consortium, an international collaboration of around 30 institutions, reported the most complete sequencing of the human genome until now. What is a gene? The gene is the basic physical unit of inheritance. …
Why in News: The government announced that Chandrayaan-3 mission is likely to be launched in late 2022. Details of the mission The Chandrayaan-2 mission, launched in 2019, was scheduled to be an effort aimed at landing a rover on the …
Who are they? Amateur radio operators are known as radio amateurs or hams who use radio frequency spectrum for purposes of non-commercial exchange of messages, wireless experimentation, self-training, private recreation, radiosport, contesting, and emergency communication. HAM refers to the Amateur …
What is it? Microtunneling is a trenchless underground tunnel construction technique generally used for constructing smaller tunnels for utilities diversion such as drainage pipelines to minimise the public inconvenience caused during the construction. Advantages Microtunneling is an efficient, fast and …
Why in the news? Recently, the safe mode was activated in the Hubble telescope after an onboard computer halt, leading to all non-essential systems being shut down – essentially meaning the telescope is not being used for astronomy observations for …