Category: Science and Technology Current Affairs

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 […]

Monkeypox : Report   According to a recent statement by the World Health Organization (WHO), as many as 85,765 confirmed and 1,382 probable cases of monkeypox were reported from 110 countries since January 1, 2022. Monkeypox is caused by the monkeypox virus which belongs to the orthopoxvirus genus. The virus is normally seen in African […]

Marburg Virus Disease : First-Ever Outbreak The World Health Organization recently said that Equatorial Guinea had confirmed its first-ever outbreak of Marburg disease. Marburg virus disease (MVD) earlier known as Marburg hemorrhagic fever, is a rare but severe hemorrhagic fever that affects both people and non-human primates. MVD is caused by the Marburg virus, a […]

TAPAS UAV: The Prime Minister of India has shared aerial coverage of Ground and Air displays captured from an indigenously developed Medium Altitude Long Endurance TAPAS UAV during rehearsal from a height of 12000 feet. TAPAS UAV is known as Tapas-BH (Tactical Airborne Platform for Aerial Surveillance-Beyond Horizon 201), formerly referred to as Rustom-II. The […]

MicroLEDs : New Display Technology Apple is reportedly working on a new display technology called microLEDs, which is considered the next big thing in the display industry. MicroLEDs are self-illuminating diodes that have brighter and better colour reproduction than Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) display technology. MicroLED technology is based on the use of sapphires, […]