Why in news: Ground support for Aditya-L1 will be played by the ARIES facility ( Aryabhata Research Institute for observational Sciences) What is Aditya-L1 ISRO is gearing up for Aditya-L1, its first scientific mission to research the Sun. The Polar …
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 …
Why in News? The Railways had completed the arch closure of the 1315m Chenab bridge, the world’s highest railway bridge. Why was it constructed? The Chenab bridge is part of the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla rail link project (USBRL) and completion of the …
Why in News: Landslides and flash floods from torrential rains in eastern Indonesia killed at least 41 people and displaced thousands What is a flash flood Flash floods are defined as floods that occur within six hours of heavy rainfall …
Why in the News? Recently, Russian scientists launched one of the world’s biggest underwater neutrino telescopes called the Baikal-GVD (Gigaton Volume Detector) in the waters of Lake Baikal, the world’s deepest lake situated in Siberia. Importance of Neutrino study Studying …
Why in News? Researchers from India, the U.K. and Russia anticipate an increase in incidence of diphtheria which may be fomented by the diversity of the species, emergence of variant toxin genes and progression of antimicrobial resistance. What is Diphtheria? …