The Indian programme to study the Sun and the region between the Sun and the Earth from space – Aditya-L1 – is due to be launched next year (2022). It will carry seven payloads which have been developed by various institutions across the country. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 This role will be played by […]
According to a new study from National Institutes of Health scientists, the experimental antiviral drug MK-4482 significantly decreased levels of virus and disease damage in the lungs of hamsters treated for SARS-CoV-2 infection. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 SARS-CoV-2 is the virus that causes COVID-19. MK-4482, delivered orally, is now in human clinical trials. Remdesivir,
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Scientists from the city-based Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences (CeNS) have developed an electronic nose with biodegradable polymer and monomer that can detect hydrogen sulphide (H2S). Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 H2S is the primary gas produced from the microbial breakdown of organic matter in the absence of oxygen, and this necessitates easy
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The Energy Forum (TEF) and the Federation of Indian Petroleum Industry (FIPI), under the aegis of Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India, are organising a Hydrogen Roundtable titled “Hydrogen Economy- the Indian Dialogue-2021” on 15th April, 2021 Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The Edition is organising to discuss emerging hydrogen ecosystems and
Astronomers have discovered a new active galaxy, identified as the farthest gamma-ray emitting galaxy that has so far been stumbled upon. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 This active galaxy called the Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxy, which is about 31 billion light-years away, opens up avenues to explore more such gamma-ray emitting galaxies. Scientists from
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Minister for Railways and Commerce & Industry and Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, Piyush Goyal launched DGFT ‘Trade Facilitation’ Mobile App for promoting ease of doing business and providing quick access to information to importers/exporters. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 It has been developed by the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS),as per the directions of
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Researchers from IIT Guwahati have developed a technique to improve the performance of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, which power most of the portable devices used today. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was jointly awarded to Stanley Whittingham, John Goodenough and Akira Yoshino for work that led to the development of
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NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft launched 20 years ago on April 7, has made it the oldest spacecraft still working at the Red Planet. The orbiter, which takes its name from Arthur C. Clarke’s classic sci-fi novel “2001: A Space Odyssey”, was sent to map the composition of the Martian surface in 2021. Daily Current Affairs
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The “double mutant” virus that scientists had flagged on March 2021 as having a bearing on the spread of the pandemic in India, has a formal scientific classification: B.1.617. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The variant is common in India and has a couple of defining mutations, E484Q and L425R, that enable it to become
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Newly published results of an international experiment hint at the possibility of new physics governing the laws of nature. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The results of the experiment, which studied a subatomic particle called the muon, do not match the predictions of the Standard Model, on which all particle physics is based, and instead
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