Category: Science and Technology Current Affairs

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 […]

C-Dome : Israel for the first time deployed its ship-mounted defence system, called the C-Dome. C-Dome is a naval version of Israel’s Iron Dome air defence system, used to shield against rocket and missile attacks. The Iron Dome, which was activated in 2011 and has an effectiveness of about 90%, works by using radars to […]

Higgs Boson : Nobel prize-winning British physicist Died Nobel prize-winning British physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of a mass-giving particle, which became known as the Higgs boson or the “God particle”, has died aged 94. The Higgs boson is the fundamental force-carrying particle of the Higgs field, which is responsible for granting fundamental […]

Global Hepatitis Report 2024: According to the Global Hepatitis Report 2024 released by the World Health Organisation (WHO), India is one of the countries with the highest burden of viral hepatitis. Hepatitis is inflammation of the liver. It can be an acute (short-term) infection or a chronic (long-term) infection. There are different types of hepatitis, […]

Lab-Grown Minibrains: Minibrains grown in the lab may help explain why concussions and other traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) raise people’s risk of dementia. Lab-grown minibrains are scientifically known as brain organoids, but often called “minibrains” and serve as miniature, simplified models of full-size human brains. Scientists typically grow brain organoids from stem cells, a type […]