Category: Science and Technology Current Affairs

Global Positioning System (GPS): Cargo ships transiting the Mediterranean and the Black Sea are encountering a growing number of incidents related to GPS jamming. This trend has become more common since the Hamas attacks on Israel in October 2023. This situation is concerning, and some merchant ships have been additionally fitted with the GLONASS satellite […]

Mercenary Spyware: Apple Apple issued threat notifications to iPhone users in India and 91 other countries, warning of potential attacks by mercenary spyware, including Israel’s Pegasus spyware. The notifications, sent via email, highlighted the possibility of specific targeting due to the user’s identity or activities. While Apple didn’t attribute the attack to any entity, it […]

PACE Satellite: NASA is now publicly distributing science-quality data from its newest Earth-observing PACE satellite. The Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite is placed in Sun-synchronous orbit. The primary science instrument for PACE is the Ocean Colour Instrument(OCI) which is designed to measure the ocean’s colour across a spectrum from ultraviolet to shortwave infrared. […]

New Features For The Unified Payments Interface: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has recently introduced two new features for the Unified Payments Interface (UPI). These new features are poised to make UPI even more versatile and user-friendly, benefiting both consumers and financial institutions. New Features: UPI Access for Prepaid Payment Instruments (PPIs) through Third […]

Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI): DESI’s groundbreaking project harnesses 5,000 robots to peer 11 billion years into the past, revealing unprecedented insights into our expanding universe. It found the most precise measurement of the universe expansion rate at a rate of 68.5 (±0.6) kilometres per second per megaparsec (a million parsec; 1 parsec equals 3.2616 […]

Wigner Crystal: Scientists have for the first time successfully visualized the elusive Wigner crystal, a strange kind of matter that is made entirely of electrons. Wigner Crystal is the solid phase of electrons, first predicted by Eugene Wigner in 1934. It is one of the first proposed many-body phases stabilized by the electron-electron interaction. Interaction […]

Mange Disease : Outbreak Among Dogs The forest department is monitoring an outbreak of mange among a pack of Asiatic wild dogs in the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (MTR) in the Nilgiris. Mange Disease is a skin disease of animals caused by mite infestations, characterized by inflammation, itching, thickening of the skin and hair loss. The […]

API Access To GPT-4 With Vision: Following its launch, OpenAI’s ChatGPT has evolved by leaps and bounds and also recently announced API access to GPT-4 with Vision. GPT-4 Vision also referred to as GPT-4V which allows users to instruct GPT-4 to analyse image inputs. It has been considered OpenAI’s step forward towards making its chatbot […]

Fractals: An international team of researchers’ discovered first fractal molecule in nature. Fractal is a never-ending pattern which is infinitely complex and self-similar across different scales. They are created by repeating a simple process over and over in an ongoing feedback loop. In essence, a fractal is a pattern that repeats forever, and every part […]

International Narcotics Control Board: India’s Jagjit Pavadia was re-elected for a third term for five years from March 2025-2030 to the International Narcotics Control Board. International Narcotics Control Board was established in 1968 and is the independent and quasi-judicial monitoring body for the implementation of the United Nations international drug control conventions. It was established […]