Why in News? NASA has converted carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into pure, breathable oxygen. How NASA achieved it? The extraction of oxygen, literally out of thin air on Mars, was achieved by an experimental device aboard Perseverance. In …
NEWS Their rights, privacy, and well-being must be protected in digital environments just as they are in the physical world CONTEXT In present times we are now living among history’s very first “AI” generation. The children and adolescents of today …
Why in News: NASA’s miniature robot helicopter Ingenuity performed a successful takeoff and landing on Mars Ingenuity Helicopter The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is a technology demonstration, carried out by the Perseverance rover. The rover released the mini helicopter that successfully …
Why in the News? NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter, which was sent to Mars strapped to the Perseverance rover, will take its first experimental flight on the Red Planet. What is the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter? NASA had unlocked the rotor blades of …
Why in News? Fermilab, which houses the American particle accelerator, has released the first results from its ‘muon g-2’ experiment which showed the anomalous behaviour of the elementary particle called the muon. What is a muon? Muon is an elementary …
Why in News? Iran has announced that it has started up advanced uranium enrichment centrifuges in a breach of its undertakings under a troubled 2015 nuclear deal, days after the start of talks on rescuing the accord. To know about …
Why in News: The ‘double mutant’ virus that scientists had flagged last month as having a bearing on the spread of the pandemic in India, has a formal scientific classification: B.1.617 Other Variants Certain variants of the coronavirus, for instance, …
Why in News? A team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati (IIT-G) has developed a technique of boosting the performance of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles (EVs). Why is this technique pathbreaking? The technique can precisely …