Context: The Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) is now ready and has been delivered to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The telescope is set to be integrated with the ADITYA-L1 mission, expected to be launched in mid-August this year. About Aditya-L1 Mission: Aditya-L1 is the first Read More
Context As per the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Revitalization Act of 1993 which mandated the inclusion of “women and minorities” in clinical trials in a bid to reduce health disparities and explore the field of gender-specific research in medicine. However, till now there is Read More
Context In recent years, the field of taxonomy, the science of naming and classifying all living beings, has been witnessing a raging debate — whether species with objectionable scientific names should be renamed. About the issue: Some of the species have names Read More
Context: Researchers from the Department of Physics at IIT-Madras have developed critical components for a highly efficient, cost-effective way to electrolyze seawater to generate hydrogen. Image Source: The Hindu Key Features of the Invention: Alkaline Seawater Electrolyzer: The team replaced fresh water with alkaline seawater Read More
Why in News? According to a study, funded by ICMR (Indian Council of Medical Research), one in five healthy individuals has the glucose metabolism of a Prediabetic. The researchers used Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGMs) to detect Pre-Diabetes.Continuous glucose monitoring automatically tracks blood glucose levels Read More
Context: Recently, ISRO chairman said that the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will begin a fresh bid to land a rover on the moon in the middle of July this year through the launch of the Chandrayaan-3 mission. What is Chandrayaan-3? Chandrayaan-3 Read More
Context: Pune based astronomers have discovered two new Millisecond Pulsars (MSP) — rotating neutron stars — using an indigenously developed novel technique, which was applied during an ongoing sky survey conducted by the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT). Image Source: The Indian Read More
Context Recently, the latest version of the draft Pandemic Instrument, also referred to as the “pandemic treaty,” was shared with Member States at the World Health Assembly (WHA), where addressing ‘antimicrobial resistance ‘in the Pandemic Instrument were at risk of removal. Background Work on the Pandemic Read More
Context: Ever since the Dot-com bubble burst in 2000, the rapid scale and pace of development of technology have radically and disruptively transformed our societies and daily lives. Challenges to notion of Nation-State: First, as defined by political theorists, the fundamental notion of a Read More
Context: Recently, physicists working with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle smasher at CERN, in Europe, reported that they had detected a Higgs boson decaying into a Z boson particle and a photon. This is a very rare decay process that tells us important Read More