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Thermocol could be the material of the future for construction of earthquake-resistant buildings, with thermal insulation and could also save energy required to develop construction materials. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Researchers at IIT Roorkee have found that thermocol or Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) is used as a composite material in core of reinforced concrete sandwich, […]

The actual turmeric slices or turmeric powder that we use every day in preparing our meals (as Haldi, Manjal, Pasupu, Arishina, Halud) has about 3% of the active component molecule called curcumin, a polyphenol diketone (and not a steroid). Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Researchers point out that there is another molecule in turmeric called

Moderna has indicated that it may begin human trials for a vaccine for HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) in September, employing the same m-RNA platform that it has used in its COVID-19 vaccine. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Formally known as mRNA-1644, it is made in a way to stimulate the B cells of the immune

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California announced that an experiment carried out in its National Ignition Facility has made a breakthrough in nuclear fusion research. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 In the experiment, lasers were used to heat a small target or fuel pellets. These pellets containing deuterium and tritium fused and produced more

Indian Space Research Organisation will launch a Bhutanese satellite which is being built by 4 Bhutanese engineers who are being trained by ISRO in December 2021. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The development of the INS-2B satellite of Bhutan is being underway by four Bhutanese engineers who were trained at ISRO’s UR Rao Satellite Centre