Puerto Rico’s massive Arecibo telescope, famous for its stellar contributions to astronomy, collapsed, leaving many among the scientific community in shock and anguish. The collapse was devastating also for many Puerto Ricans, for whom the observatory was culturally significant. Daily Current ...

A powerful new telescope ASKAP, in Australia has mapped vast areas of the universe in record-breaking time, revealing a million new galaxies and opening the way to new discoveries. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points ASKAP is a telescope designed over a decade ago and located about ...

NASA has confirmed that the Near-Earth Object called 2020 SO is the rocket booster that helped lift the space agency’s Surveyor spacecraft toward the Moon in 1966. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Surveyor-2 spacecraft was supposed to make a soft landing on the Moon’s ...

IIT Kanpur researchers have demonstrated how with the use of a micro-structured hour-glass shaped metastructure in the lattice unit, one can get a wider variation of propagation and stop bands. The hour-glasses are developed in the Smart Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points ...

The theremin is an electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the thereminist (performer). Theremin instrument turned 100 years old this year. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The instrument was invented in 1920. It is named after its inventor, Leon ...

US drugmaker Moderna was applying for emergency use authorisation for its Covid-19 vaccine. A few days earlier, Pfizer applied for emergency use authorisation for the vaccine it has developed in collaboration with BioNTech. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Vaccines and ...

Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) has launched 100 Octane petrol in India. Branded as XP100, this premium-grade petrol will initially be available in only 10 cities -  Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida, Agra, Jaipur, Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Mumbai, Pune, and Ahmedabad. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 ...

Influenza is caused by a virus, but the most common cause of death in influenza patients is secondary pneumonia caused by bacteria, rather than the influenza virus itself. While this is well known, what is largely unknown is why influenza infections lead to an increased risk of bacterial ...

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited announced that it had delivered the largest-ever cryogenic propellant tank (C32 LH2) fabricated by the state-run company to the Indian Space Research Organisation. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The main goal of launch vehicle designers is to ...

A tiny freshwater fish named ‘Zebrafish’, barely 2-3 cm long can efficiently regenerate its damaged heart within a short time period. Scientists at Pune-based Agharkar Research Institute have used this tiny animal model and identified genes that can promote heart regeneration. Daily Current ...