Category: Science and Technology Current Affairs

James Webb Space Telescope : Evidence Of Extraterrestrial Life On a Distant Exoplanet Scientists have found tentative but strong evidence of possible extraterrestrial life on a distant exoplanet named K2-18b, located 124 light years away from Earth in the Leo constellation. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in December 2021, is the largest and […]

NASA’s Curiosity Rover : Discovered Carbon-Bearing Minerals On Mars NASA’s Curiosity Rover has discovered carbon-bearing minerals on Mars, marking the first solid evidence of a carbon cycle on the Red Planet. The discovery was made during the rover’s exploration of an 89-meter stretch of terrain in an ancient lakebed in the Gale Crater, where it […]

Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) Technology: The Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB), in partnership with IIT Bombay, has launched a pilot V2G project to test its feasibility in the state. Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) is a set of technologies that enable Electric Vehicles (EVs) to send stored electricity back to the power grid when they are not in use. When […]

India Set to Become Fastest-Growing Major Aviation Market by 2026: India is poised to become the world’s fastest-growing large aviation market by 2026, according to Airports Council International (ACI). While China remains significantly ahead in overall aviation market size, India’s growth is being fuelled by increasing demand for air travel among its vast population, where […]

Pilot Program of ANPR-FASTag-based Barrier-Less Tolling System: Satellite-based Tolling System will be launched from 1st May 2025 to replace the current FASTag-based toll collection, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) and the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) have officially denied any such decision. Instead, the government has announced a pilot implementation of […]

WAVES 2025 – Anti-Piracy Challenge: A key initiative under “Create in India” to promote indigenous innovation in Digital Content Security. The Anti-Piracy Challenge is a flagship initiative under the Create in India Challenge, part of WAVES (World Audio Visual and Entertainment Summit) 2025. Organized by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, WAVES […]

Type 5 Diabetes : Recognized Type 5 diabetes has been officially recognised as a distinct form of diabetes by the International Diabetes Federation. Type 5 diabetes primarily affects lean, undernourished teenagers and young adults in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). It is caused by malnutrition-induced reduction in insulin production, unlike Type 2 diabetes, which involves […]

India’s First Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) Over Multi-Core Fibre: the Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT), in collaboration with Sterlite Technologies Ltd. (STL), has successfully tested India’s first Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) transmission over a 4-core Multi-Core Fibre (MCF). This achievement marks a significant leap forward in India’s efforts to establish a secure and cost-effective […]

What is a TPU (Tensor Processing Unit)? A TPU is also a type of ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit), meaning it is built for a specific function — in this case, AI tasks. First introduced by Google in 2015, TPUs are specially designed hardware units built from the ground up to handle machine learning operations. TPUs […]