Category: Science and Technology Current Affairs

Juice Mission : European Space Agency The European Space Agency is set to launch the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) mission to explore Jupiter and its icy moons, namely Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa. Juice Mission launched from French Guiana on an Ariane 5 launcher. The mission is set to reach Jupiter in 2031. The spacecraft […]

Large Hadron Collider: Currently, engineers are warming up the LHC for its third season of operations,with upgrades. Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest science experiment that smashes tiny particles called hadrons together at really high speeds. It uses protons as the particles and has a long circular pipe where they’re accelerated. LHC is […]

Zero Click Spyware: An Israeli company’s (QuaDream Ltd) Spyware has been used against journalists, opposition figures and advocacy organizations across at least 10 countries – according to new research published Tuesday by Microsoft Corp and the internet watchdog Citizen Lab. Spyware refers to software programs that are designed to collect data from a computer or […]

New Uranium Isotope: In pursuit of a ‘magic number’, Physicists in Japan have recently discovered a new isotope of uranium with atomic number 92 and mass number 241. It was identified as uranium-241 and measured the mass of its nucleus. Theoretical calculations suggest that this new isotope could have a half-life of 40 minutes. This […]

New Rules For Online Gaming: The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has recently notified the final rules for online gaming. Every state in India, except Goa, Sikkim, and the Union Territory of Daman explicitly prohibits any sort of gambling, betting or wagering on games of chance. Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Nagaland, Odisha, Tamil Nadu […]

Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO Project: LIGO is an international network of laboratories. It aims to detect the ripples in spacetime produced by the movement of large celestial objects. LIGO-India is a collaborative project between a consortium of Indian research institutions and the LIGO Laboratory in the USA, along with its international partners. It […]

Genome India Project: Government aims to sequence 10,000 genomes by the end of the year 2023 under the Genome India Project (GIP). The Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology has sequenced close to 7,000 genomes and 3,000 of these are already available for public access Genome India Project is a scientific initiative inspired […]

Indian Space Policy 2023: The Union Cabinet has approved the Indian Space Policy, 2023 to enhance the role of the Department of Space, boost activities of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) missions and give a larger participation of research, academia, startups and industry. Indian Space Policy 2023 seeks to institutionalise the private sector participation in […]

National Mission In Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems: The Experts deliberated on ways to strengthen the National Mission in Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS) at the National Workshop on Technology Innovation in Cyber-Physical Systems (TIPS). National Mission in Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems was launched in 2018 at a total outlay of Rs.3660 Crores for a period of five years. […]

Cassiopeia A: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured never-before-seen detail of Cassiopeia A (Cas A). Cassiopeia A is a remnant of a massive star that exploded some 340 years ago. It is the youngest remnant off a the massive star in our galaxy known to mankind. Cas A belongs to the prototypical type of supernova […]