What’s in News: The 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to chemists Carolyn R. Bertozzi and K. Barry Sharpless from the U.S., and Morten Meldal from Denmark, for their work in the field of click chemistry and bioorthogonal …
What’s in the news? The Government of India recently announced that by the end of 2022, India will establish the country’s first Dark Sky Reserve at Hanle. The Hanle Dark Sky Reserve (HDSR) will come up within the Changthang Wildlife …
Why in News Swedish scientist Svante Pääbo has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology for the year 2022. What was his research based on Svante Pääbo sequenced the genome of the Neanderthal, an extinct relative of present-day humans Through …
The need Satellite broadband services can connect the most remote parts of the country which are otherwise difficult to connect through fibres. Satellite broadband services can, therefore, help in addressing the need of the market for fibre-like connectivity in the …
What is it? The Vande Bharat train(Train 18) is an indigenously designed and manufactured semi high speed, self-propelled train The Vande Bharat coaches incorporate passenger amenities including on-board WiFi entertainment, GPS-based passenger information system, CCTVs, automatic doors in all coaches, …
What’s in News: DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft collided with the space rock Dimorphos. NASA has confirmed that the collision of the 600 kilogram weighing DART, on the Dimorphos(Didymos B), about five billion kilogram in mass (orbiting around the …
Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) – NavIC IRNSS is an independent regional navigation satellite system developed by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). In April 2016, with the last launch of the constellation’s satellite, IRNSS was renamed Navigation Indian …
Why in News: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said that it has successfully demonstrated a hybrid propulsion system that uses a solid fuel and liquid oxidiser. The hybrid system is more efficient, ”greener’‘ and safer to handle and paves …
Why in News: Ethereum blockchain fully transitioned to a new way of processing transactions. Ethereum’s Merge event, as it is known, could change the nature of crypto and Web3 itself. Developers say the transition to what is called a ‘proof-of-stake’ …
About Lumpy skin disease (LSD) is caused by infection of cattle or water buffalo with the poxvirus Lumpy skin disease virus (LSDV). The virus comes under the genus capripoxvirus. It is transmitted by blood-feeding insects like mosquitoes, flies, lice, and …