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IIT Ropar recently developed a device ‘Jivan Vayu’ which can be used as a substitute for a CPAP machine. Dr Khushboo Rakha, Assistant Professor, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering developed the device at the Advanced Materials and Design Lab of IIT Ropar. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The device is the nation’s first such device that […]

A Finnish company called Arctic Astronautics is working on sending the world’s first wooden satellite to space by the end of this year from New Zealand. It has sensors that have been developed by the European Space Agency (ESA). Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The satellite will be launched to test the applicability of wooden

Scientists have assembled the largest collection of fast radio bursts (FRBs) in the telescope’s first FRB catalogue with the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) Collaboration, which include researchers at the Pune-based Tata Institute for Fundamental Research (TIFR) and the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA). Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 CHIME is an interferometric

A glitch at Fastly, a popular CDN provider, left websites like Twitch, Amazon, Spotify facing an outage. Fastly has also updated its Status page confirming that it is facing an outage. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Fastly is an American cloud computing services provider. It describes its network as an ‘edge cloud platform’, which is

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, researchers developed Early Cyclone Detection Technique to strengthening of tropical cyclones in the atmospheric column prior to satellites over ocean surface in the North Indian Ocean region. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Researchers have devised a novel method using Eddy detection technique to investigate the formative stages and advance

Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos will be flying to space on the first crewed flight of the New Shepard, the rocket ship made by his space company, Blue Origin. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Founded in 2000, Blue Origin Federation, LLC is an American privately funded aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company headquartered in Kent,

OneWeb’s Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation reached 218 in-orbit satellites following the successful launch of 36 satellites. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The company only has one more launch to complete before it obtains the capacity to enable its ‘Five to 50’ service of offering internet connectivity to all regions north of 50 degrees latitude.

Researchers at the New Delhi-based National Institute of Immunology (NII), an Autonomous Institute of Department of Biotechnology (DBT), and clinicians at Cancer Institute, Adyar, Chennai have been working together to translate new scientific discoveries into improved care for cancer patients. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 India’s first indigenous tumour antigen SPAG9 was discovered by Dr

Scientists at Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL), Sector 36, have developed an indigenous chip-off technique for helping the investigative agencies to produce credible evidences against criminals in the trial courts. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Using the technique, data has been retrieved from a smart cell phone which had been locked with the finger prints