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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 (340-278 BC). Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points CNSA […]

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 Key-Points Anthurium (Anthurium spp.) is a vast group of blooming

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 synthesize metal, semiconductor, and polymer nanoparticles by continuous flow active microreactor. Microreactor has parameters such

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 character in legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray’s stories. The test was developed

Government has refuted claims that Centre is preparing to procure thousands of wristbands which will be embedded with its Arogya Setu app to monitor movements of COVID-19 patients in hospital and home quarantine. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points These bands will help medical personnel and authorities keep track of the movement of patients in

In order to effectively track the home-quarantines citizens and ensure they are actually staying in the home, a mobile application named Saiyam has been developed by the Pune Municipal Corporation under Smart Cities Mission (SCM). Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The app has been developed to monitor home quarantined citizens. The city administration has

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) have discovered hundreds of Li-rich giant stars indicating that Li is being produced in the stars and accounts for its abundance in the interstellar medium. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The researches have also associated such Li enhancement with central He-burning stars, also known as red

Researchers at the Agharkar Research Institute (ARI), Pune have developed a sensitive and low-cost sensor to rapidly detect bacteria. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The bug sniffer is a biosensor that uses synthetic peptides, magnetic nanoparticles, and quantum dots to detect the presence of bacteria. It will provide a cost and time-effective way of

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mandi has developing magnetic Random Access Memory (RAM) which is faster, more energy-efficient and capable of storing more information in a smaller volume than existing data storage technologies. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Spin-transfer torque (STT) based nano spintronic device is expected to put an end to computer

Researchers from Indian Institute of Geomagnetism (IIG), Navi Mumbai have developed a global model to predict the ionospheric electron density with larger data coverage—a crucial need for communication and navigation. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The new ANNIM uses long-term ionospheric observations to predict the ionospheric electron density and the peak parameters. Generally, ANNs