Category: Science and Technology Current Affairs

Donanemab : New Alzheimer’s Drug A new Alzheimer’s drug, donanemab, has received support from an FDA advisory committee, moving closer to approval. Intended for early-stage Alzheimer’s, it shows significant slowing of cognitive decline. The drug works by targeting amyloid beta protein deposits in the brain. Alzheimer’s disease is a brain disorder that slowly destroys memory […]

The Global Nitrous Oxide Budget 2024: According to a new study by the Global Carbon Project (GCP) titled, “Global Nitrous Oxide Budget (1980-2020)”, the emissions of nitrous oxide have been rising continuously between 1980 and 2020. A study found that in 2021 and 2022, nitrous oxide was released into the air faster than ever before, […]

Fintech Companies : Leading India’s Start-up Ecosystem Fintech Companies continue to be an attractive option for entrepreneurs in the Start-Up ecosystem. As per the data from Tracxn (a company that provides market intelligence data for private companies), fintechs have received over 15% of the total equity funding into start-ups in FY24 so far. Fintech, a […]

CRISPR/Cas9 : Study Researchers recently used CRISPR/Cas9 to alter photosynthesis for the first time. CRISPR, short for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, is a gene-editing technology that can be used to alter the genetic sequence of a specific gene by removing, adding, or altering sections of the DNA sequence. It makes it possible to […]

Starship : SpaceX’s SpaceX’s Starship rocket accomplished its first fully successful test flight last week, with both its booster and spacecraft making a gentle splashdown after an hour-long sub-orbital space flight. SpaceX’s Starship is an ambitious spacecraft designed to be fully reusable for missions to various destinations in space, including Mars. It is part of […]

Enterobacter bugandensis: Scientists from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have carried out a collaborative study of the behaviour of multi-drug resistant pathogens aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Enterobacter Bugandensis is a relatively new species within the Enterobacter genus. It was first described in 2013, after being […]

Apple Intelligence: Apple introduced “Apple Intelligence,” a generative AI system integrated into iPhones, iPads, and Macs via iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia. Apple Intelligence combines generative AI with personal context to provide personalized, context-aware responses, enhancing user experience while prioritizing privacy through on-device processing and Private Cloud Compute. Key features include: Writing Tools […]

Southern Cryonics: Southern Cryonics (a company in Australia) announced that it has successfully frozen its first client, with the hope of bringing him back to life in the future. The first patient was an 80-year-old man, who died in May 2024 at a hospital in Sydney. Cryonics involves keeping the human body at cryogenic temperatures […]

Aditya-L1 Spacecraft : Image The Aditya-L1 spacecraft started its trip toward the Sun on September 2, 2023. It was India’s first mission to study the sun. The Lagrangian point L1 was successfully reached on January 6, 2024, just 127 days after launch. It is in a key location about 1.5 million kilometers from Earth. The […]

Quantum Data: A new quantum computing study claims that a recent finding in the production, storage and retrieval of “quantum data” has brought us one step closer to the quantum internet Quantum Data refers to information that is stored and processed using the principles of quantum mechanics. Unlike classical data, which is represented by binary […]