Category: Science and Technology Current Affairs

LignoSat : Launched Into Space The world’s first wooden satellite LignoSat built by Japanese researchers was launched into space in an early test of using timber in lunar and Mars exploration. LignoSat”, a fusion of “ligno” (the Latin word for wood) and “satellite”. It is developed through collaborative research and development by a team comprising […]

What Are Orphan Drugs? India faces significant challenges in ensuring the development, affordability, and accessibility of orphan drugs, especially compared to other countries like the United States and the European Union. Orphan drugs are pharmaceutical agents developed specifically to treat rare (orphan) diseases These diseases, though affecting only a small portion of the population, often […]

Diffraction Limit: The resolution limit of an optical instrument that uses light is constrained by the diffraction limit, a fundamental boundary that prevents improvement beyond a certain point.This diffraction limit affects the instrument’s ability to distinguish between two close objects. Due to the diffraction limit, scientists could use the light microscope to see cells but […]

Visible Emission Line Coronagraph: Scientists from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) in Bengaluru have reported initial significant observations from the Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC) onboard ADITYA-L1, India’s first solar mission launched by ISRO.The VELC on ADITYA-L1 successfully captured and precisely estimated the onset time of a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) that erupted from […]

ISRO to Launch EU’s Proba-3 Satellite: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is set to launch the European Union’s Proba-3 Solar Observation Mission in December from Sriharikota. The satellite, arriving at Sriharikota, is designed to study the Sun’s faint corona, a crucial aspect of solar science. This marks India’s third collaboration with the EU in space, […]

Royal Enfield Launches EV Brand “Flying Flea”: Royal Enfield has recently unveiled its highly anticipated electric vehicle (EV) brand, “Flying Flea”, an homage to one of the brand’s most iconic models. The original Flying Flea was a compact, lightweight motorcycle designed in the 1940s for military use during World War II. Engineered to be air-dropped […]

Iron Beam: Israel’s ‘Iron Beam’, designed to use a high-power laser to down projectiles, will be operational within a year, according to reports. The Iron Beam, also known as Magen or Light Shield, is a new laser-based missile defence system developed by Israel. It is a 100kW class High Energy Laser Weapon System (HELWS) that […]

Transponder : For Fishermen At Sea The Central government has planned to install indigenously developed transponders on one lakh fishing vessels for a two-way communication and support system that enhances the safety and security of fishermen at sea. A transponder is a wireless communication, monitoring, or control device that picks up and automatically responds to […]

Hydrogels : New Discovery A new way discovered by a team of researchers at the Department of Chemical Sciences in Bose Institute to create hydrogels using tiny protein fragments of just five amino acids from the SARS-CoV-1 virus, could help improve targeted drug delivery & reduce side effects. Hydrogels is a three-dimensional network composed of […]