Astronomers have found 19 asteroids that once belonged to a distant star system have been found orbiting the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune. The asteroids have been circling the sun for more than 4.5 billion years, since the very inception of the solar system. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 ...

The commercial launch of Agappe Chitra Magna was announced by Dr VK Saraswat, NITI Aayog member and President of Institute body of Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST). Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points SARS-COV-2, the causative virus of ...

NASA engineers have developed a new, easy-to-build high-pressure ventilator tailored specifically to treat COVID-19 patients. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points VITAL (Ventilator Intervention Technology Accessible Locally) ventilator has passed a critical test at the Icahn School ...

The Department of Science and Technology (DST) has approved support for upscaling an antiviral nano-coatings developed by Professor Ashwini Kumar Agrawal of Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi for use as appropriate material for producing anti-COVID-19 Triple Layer Medical masks and N-95 ...

A team of researchers at Faridabad-based Regional Centre for Biotechnology (RCB) led by Dr Avinash Bajaj has initiated a study to engineer virucidal coatings to prevent the Covid-19 transmission. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The study includes antimicrobial molecules that ...

The Indian Institute of Food Processing Technology (IIFPT) is making nutrient-rich foods for patients affected by COVID-19 and also those who have recovered from the disease. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points IIFPT has been manufacturing such nutrient-rich foods for COVID-19 ...

The Tianwen-1 mission launched atop a Long March 5 rocket from Hainan Island's Wenchang Satellite Launch Center on July 23. China National Space Administration's (CNSA) Mars mission as "Tianwen." It means Heavenly Questions or Questions to Heaven, a poem written by China's well-known poet Qu Yuan ...

NIF boosts new varieties of Anthurium, a flower with high market value, by lady innovator from Kerala D Vasini Bai, a women innovator from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, has developed ten varieties of Anthurium, a flower with high market value, by cross-pollination. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 ...

Scientists from Pune based Agharkar Research Institute (ARI) have developed a microreactor that that can produce large quantities of uniform size of nanoparticles, thus serving a major requirement in biomedical technology. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The microreactor could ...

Scientists at the CSIR's Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology have come up with a low-cost coronavirus test that will not require any expensive machines for detection of the pathogen. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The device 'Feluda' was named after the detective ...