Category: Science and Technology Current Affairs

Venomous Jellyfish : Bloom Across The Visakhapatnam Coast A bloom of venomous jellyfish was reported across the Visakhapatnam coast. The species, Pelagia noctiluca, also known as the mauve stinger or purple-striped jellyfish, has a painful sting and causes different degrees of illnesses such as diarrhoea, extreme pain, vomiting and anaphylactic shock and can be life-threatening. […]

Hubble Tension: In a study published recently, scientists from Germany and the U.K. led a radical explanation for the Hubble tension. Hubble Tension refers to a discrepancy between the measurements of the rate of expansion of the universe, known as the Hubble constant. The Hubble constant, denoted as H0, describes the rate at which galaxies […]

Global Positioning System (GPS): Cargo ships transiting the Mediterranean and the Black Sea are encountering a growing number of incidents related to GPS jamming. This trend has become more common since the Hamas attacks on Israel in October 2023. This situation is concerning, and some merchant ships have been additionally fitted with the GLONASS satellite […]

Mercenary Spyware: Apple Apple issued threat notifications to iPhone users in India and 91 other countries, warning of potential attacks by mercenary spyware, including Israel’s Pegasus spyware. The notifications, sent via email, highlighted the possibility of specific targeting due to the user’s identity or activities. While Apple didn’t attribute the attack to any entity, it […]

PACE Satellite: NASA is now publicly distributing science-quality data from its newest Earth-observing PACE satellite. The Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite is placed in Sun-synchronous orbit. The primary science instrument for PACE is the Ocean Colour Instrument(OCI) which is designed to measure the ocean’s colour across a spectrum from ultraviolet to shortwave infrared. […]

New Features For The Unified Payments Interface: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has recently introduced two new features for the Unified Payments Interface (UPI). These new features are poised to make UPI even more versatile and user-friendly, benefiting both consumers and financial institutions. New Features: UPI Access for Prepaid Payment Instruments (PPIs) through Third […]

Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI): DESI’s groundbreaking project harnesses 5,000 robots to peer 11 billion years into the past, revealing unprecedented insights into our expanding universe. It found the most precise measurement of the universe expansion rate at a rate of 68.5 (±0.6) kilometres per second per megaparsec (a million parsec; 1 parsec equals 3.2616 […]

Wigner Crystal: Scientists have for the first time successfully visualized the elusive Wigner crystal, a strange kind of matter that is made entirely of electrons. Wigner Crystal is the solid phase of electrons, first predicted by Eugene Wigner in 1934. It is one of the first proposed many-body phases stabilized by the electron-electron interaction. Interaction […]

Mange Disease : Outbreak Among Dogs The forest department is monitoring an outbreak of mange among a pack of Asiatic wild dogs in the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (MTR) in the Nilgiris. Mange Disease is a skin disease of animals caused by mite infestations, characterized by inflammation, itching, thickening of the skin and hair loss. The […]

API Access To GPT-4 With Vision: Following its launch, OpenAI’s ChatGPT has evolved by leaps and bounds and also recently announced API access to GPT-4 with Vision. GPT-4 Vision also referred to as GPT-4V which allows users to instruct GPT-4 to analyse image inputs. It has been considered OpenAI’s step forward towards making its chatbot […]