Why in News: Recent studies have found the emergence of multi-drug resistant Salmonella typhimurium DT104 that causes infections in humans and cattle The rapid and unselective use of traditional antibiotics gives rise to the emergence of drug resistant phenotype in …
About Vernon Dvorak Dvorak was an American meteorologist best credited for developing the Dvorak technique in the early 1970s. The technique has been upgraded multiple times since then, and after a recent software update this year, it has been named …
Why in News: Crash Detection feature makes the phone detect when the user has a fall and makes a call to emergency assistance service. The feature is also designed to share important information like location of the user with assistance …
What’s in News: A gamma ray burst originated in the constellation Sagitta, called GRB221009A about 2.4 billion light years away is being called “the BOAT” – the brightest of all time – and is so powerful it has even affected …
Why in News: The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) heaviest rocket Launch Vehicle Mark 3 (LVM3 or GSLV Mark 3) has successfully orbited 36 satellites of U.K.-based OneWeb. With this launch, LVM3 has made its entry into the global commercial …
Why in News The Indian Space Research Organisation, along with the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST), is set to organise a two-day conference themed ‘Akash Tatva’ (the element Akash) in Dehradun What is the conference about? To expose youth …
Background In 2017, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave (LIGO) observatories recorded a signal which indicated that two massive and dense stellar bodies had merged to form a third body, likely a black hole. In the process they gave off vibrations that …
Why in News: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has mandated the tokenisation of credit/debit cards for online merchants from October 1. Till then, card details for online purchases were stored on the servers of these merchants in order to …
What is it? Lab-grown meat—also known as cultured, cultivated, cell-based, or clean meat is an alternative to animal farming with advantages such as reducing carbon footprint and the risk of transmitting diseases in animals. Rather than being part of a …