Category: Science and Technology Current Affairs

FINDER Device : NASA NASA has developed a technology that can remotely detect the tiniest motions of the body that will be used by disaster relief teams in earthquake-stricken Turkey. The devices, called FINDERs( Finding Individuals for Disaster Emergency Response), use microwave radar sensors to find survivors underneath the rubble. It was designed to detect […]

Verkko Software : For Genome Sequencing Researchers have developed and released an innovative software ‘Verkko’ to assemble truly complete, gapless genome sequences from a variety of species. Verkko software is an innovative software for assembling complete, gapless diploid genomes. It is developed by researchers from National Institutes of Health (NIH), US. Verkko grew from assembling […]

SURAJ Drones : Solar Powered Garuda Aerospace displayed the solar-powered drone SURAJ at Aero India 2023. SURAJ Drones is a solar-powered, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) high-altitude drone which can fly at an altitude of 3,000 ft. It is designed specifically for surveillance operations, providing real-time information to the high command, and protecting jawans on […]

First Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) Framework : Puducherry Puducherry has launched the country’s first Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) framework as part of a pact under the Indo-Norway Integrated Ocean Initiative. Puducherry and Lakshadweep were chosen as coastlines to pilot the MSP initiative after a 2019 Memorandum of understanding (MoU) between India and Norway. Marine Spatial […]

National Organ Transplantation Guidelines: The Central Government has recently made major changes in the organ transplant regulations in the country under its ‘one nation, one policy’ rule by removing the 65-year age cap for recipients and allowing them to register in any state and not just their state. The primary legislation governing organ transplantation in […]

US Scientist Recently Discovered Quasicrystals: A US scientist recently discovered quasicrystals. The major difference between an ordinary crystal and a quasi-crystal is that the atomic patterns in quasi-crystals do not repeat themselves as that of an ordinary crystal. They are rare to occur naturally. However, can be created artificially. So far, we have discovered only […]

Black Galaxy: A research team from Italy has detected an elusive black galaxy, dubbed ‘invisible galaxy’ using ALMA. Dark Galaxy is a hypothesized galaxy with no, or very few, stars. They received their name because they have no visible stars, but may be detectable if they contain significant amounts of gas. Scientists used the Gravitational […]

First Woman Astronaut Into Space : Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia is set to send its first woman astronaut, Rayyana Barnawi, on a 10-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS) later this year, aboard a SpaceX Dragon. A Saudi Arabian woman will become the first woman astronaut from the country to go on a space […]

ChatGPT-Powered WhatsApp Chatbot: The Ministry of Electronics and IT’s (MeitY) BHASHINI is working on a ChatGPT-Powered WhatsApp Chatbot to help Indian farmers learn about various government schemes. BHASHINI (BHASHa INterface for India) is India’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) led language translation platform. The launch of the WhatsApp chatbot may take time as ChatGPT currently relies on […]