Category: Science and Technology Current Affairs

BEML Secures Contract for India’s First Indigenous Bullet Trains: State-owned BEML has been awarded a contract worth ₹866.87 crore by Integral Coach Factory (ICF) to design, manufacture, and commission India’s first indigenously built bullet trains. This project marks a significant milestone in India’s high-speed rail journey, as it will feature two high-speed trainsets

Darwin’s Finches : Recent Study In research published recently, biologists have identified a key connection between ecology and speciation in Darwin’s finches, famous residents of the Galapagos Islands. Darwin’s finches, named after Charles Darwin, are small land birds. They comprise a group of 15 species endemic to the Galápagos (14 species) and Cocos (1 species) […]

Haber-Bosch Process: A hundred million tonnes of nitrogen are now removed from the atmosphere and converted into fertilizer via the Haber-Bosch process, adding 165 million tonnes of reactive nitrogen to the soil. Haber-Bosch Process is a process that fixes nitrogen with hydrogen to produce Ammonia (NH3)—a critical part of the manufacture of plant fertilizers. The […]

India’s First Demonstration Facility For Biopolymers In Pune: The Union Minister inaugurated India’s first Demonstration Facility for Biopolymers in Pune. Biopolymers are materials that have been manufactured from biological sources such as fats, vegetable oils, sugars, resins, and proteins. The biopolymers have more complex structures than synthetic polymers therefore they are more active in vivo. […]

Tele MANAS: Tele MANAS is now available as a comprehensive mobile platform – Tele MANAS App – developed for the public. Tele Mental Health Assistance and Networking Across States (Tele MANAS) was started by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare 2022. It seeks to function as a comprehensive, integrated, and inclusive 24×7 tele-mental health […]

Europa Clipper mission: NASA is set to launch Europa Clipper mission today. The spacecraft is scheduled to launch from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a Falcon Heavy rocket. About Europa Clipper Mission Europa Clipper Mission is a NASA mission aimed at exploring Jupiter’s moon Europa, which is considered one of the top candidates […]

AI-Generated Synthetic Medical Images: The rise of AI-generated synthetic medical images can provide an ethical, scalable, and cost-effective solution to the medical field. Synthetic Medical Image is generated by AI or computer algorithms without being captured by traditional imaging devices such as MRI, CT scans, or X-rays. These images are entirely constructed using mathematical models […]

Alkanes : Study Researchers have developed a novel method to activate alkanes using confined chiral Brønsted acids, significantly enhancing the efficiency and selectivity of chemical reactions. Alkanes are organic compounds that consist entirely of single-bonded carbon and hydrogen atoms and lack any other functional groups. Alkanes have the general formula CnH2n + 2 (where n […]

X-Band Radar: After recent devastating floods and landslides in Kerala’s Wayanad district, the Union Ministry of Earth Sciences approved an X-band radar to be installed in the district. An X-band radar is a radar that emits radiation in the X-band of the electromagnetic spectrum: 8-12 GHz, corresponding to wavelengths of around 2-4 cm. The smaller […]

Rare Diseases : In News The Delhi High Court issued directions aimed at improving the availability of so-called “orphan drugs”, which are medications used to treat “rare diseases”. Rare Diseases is a health condition of low prevalence that affects a small number of people compared with other prevalent diseases in the general population. There are […]