LignoSat : Japan’s Tiny Wooden Satellite In a world-first, Japanese researchers have built a tiny wooden satellite named LignoSat that will be launched into space in September. LignoSat a fusion of “ligno” (the Latin word for wood) and “satellite”,. It is developed by collaborative research and development by a team comprising members from Kyoto University […]
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Pig Liver Transplant In Cancer Patient
Pig Liver Transplant In Cancer Patient: A man with advanced liver cancer who is 71 years old is the first person in history to receive a liver donation from a genetically modified pig. This is a huge step forward in medicine. Doctors at Anhui Medical University’s First Affiliated Hospital in China did this historic treatment. […]
Dengue Outbreaks Rise In Americas Due To Climate Change
Dengue Outbreaks Rise In Americas Due To Climate Change: While dengue fever used to only happen in tropical areas, there are now an alarmingly high number of cases in both those areas and other places, like the US and Europe. This rise in dengue cases is a growing global health issue. It is thought to […]
Golden Rice : Permit For commercial Production
Golden Rice : Permit For commercial Production The Philippine Court of Appeals recently revoked biosafety permits for the commercial production of genetically modified golden rice and Bt eggplant. The court cited the government’s failure to establish safety monitoring mechanisms. Golden Rice (approved for commercial production in 2021) is genetically engineered to contain beta carotene, giving […]
eMigrate Project
eMigrate Project: A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) is entered into between Ministry External Affairs (MEA), Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and Common Service Centre eGovernance Services India Limited to create a synergy between Common Service Centre (CSC) SPV & MEA to provide the eMigrate services through CSCs in the country. eMigrate project is […]
Insurance Regulatory And Development Authority Of India
Insurance Regulatory And Development Authority Of India: The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) recently made some major changes in the regulatory norms for health insurance policies. IRDAI is a statutory body formed under an Act of Parliament, i.e., the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority Act, 1999 (IRDAI Act 1999), for the overall […]
Indian Computer Emergency Response Team
Indian Computer Emergency Response Team: India’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) recently issued a warning for a high-severity vulnerability reported in Google Chrome for desktops. CERT-In is the national nodal agency for responding to computer security incidents as and when they occur. It is a functional organisation of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, […]
Caterpillars : Electroreception
Caterpillars : Electroreception British scientists have found something very interesting about caterpillars: they have a sixth sense that most land animals don’t have. Through special hairs on their bodies called setae, they can pick up on electric fields with this sense, called electroreception. The study, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy […]
India’s First Quantum Diamond Microchip Imager
India’s First Quantum Diamond Microchip Imager: IIT Bombay and TCS, India’s biggest IT services company, are working together to make the country’s first quantum diamond computer imager. A quantum diamond computer imager works in a way that is similar to how MRIs work in hospitals. It makes image magnetic fields possible so that semiconductor chips […]
What Is Carbon Fiber?
What Is Carbon Fiber? Vice President recently visited National Aerospace Limited (NAL) facilities and laid the foundation stone of the Centre for Carbon Fiber and Prepregs in Bengaluru. Carbon fiber can have higher cost than other materials which has been one of the limiting factors of adoption. Carbon fiber, also known as graphite fiber or […]
