Category: Science and Technology Current Affairs

Trojan Asteroids: NASA’s Lucy spacecraft first time caught a glimpse of the Jupiter and Trojan asteroids. Trojan asteroids are mysterious space rocks which have been gravitationally trapped in Jupiter’s orbit around the Sun for billions of years These are thought to be remnants of the primordial material that formed the outer planets. They orbit the […]

Galaxy GN-z11: The spectroscopic results from galaxy GN-z11 identified and confirmed that there is the complete absence of dust particles from its surroundings for an interim period despite possessing a very high star formation rate. The process of star formation and the subsequent stellar evolution inevitably generates massive amounts of dust and makes the host […]

Animal Health System Support For One Health: Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying will launch the “Animal Pandemic Preparedness Initiative (APPI)” Animal Health System Support for One Health (AHSSOH) project under the aegis of National One Health Mission on 14th of April 2023 at India Habitat Center, New Delhi. Animal Health System Support […]

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 […]