Sodium-ion battery tech Subject :Science and Technology Section: EV Context: Sodium-based battery technology might soon be a viable alternative to lithium-based ones. A homogeneous oxysulfide glass electrolyte has been developed, which makes it significantly more viable to produce sodium ion-based batteries commercially and on a larger scale. It enables reversible sodium plating and […]
Significance of James Webb Space Telescope’s First Deep Field image from NASA Subject :Science and Technology Section :Space Context: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) delivered its deepest and sharpest infrared image of a distant universe to date What is the First Deep Field? A composite made from images at various wavelengths captured […]
DCGI nod to SII’s HPV jab for cervical cancer Subject : Science and Technology Section:Biotechnology Concept: CERVAVAC, the country’s first quadrivalent human papilloma virus vaccine (qHPV) manufactured by Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII) HPV is a common virus that is passed during sex. Long-lasting infection with certain types of HPV is the […]
James Webb Space Telescope Subject: Science & Tech. Context: The United States space research agency NASA said in a release on Monday (July 11) that its James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has produced the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe that has ever been seen, heralding a major event in […]
The search for dark matter Subject: Science & Tech. Context: A next-generation dark matter detector has started operations, already delivering its first results, which show it to be the most sensitive machine of this type on Earth What is LUX-ZEPLIN experiment? The LUX-ZEPLIN detector is set up to specifically search for a hypothesized […]
Rocket fuel: Bacteria that pack a punch Subject: Science and Technology Section: Science Context: Scientists at the US Lawrence-Berkeley Lab have developed a fuel from a bacterium that packs more energy than even the rocket fuels in use today. How the common streptomyces promises to fuel rockets This bacterium is used to make […]
NASA Chief Warned China May Try to Claim the Moon. That’s Unlikely. Subject :Science and Tech Section : Space Context: Some Chinese officials and government documents have expressed intentions to build a permanent, crewed International Lunar Research Station by 2027 In 2019, China became the first country to land a spacecraft on the […]
Variants, Sublineages, and Recombinants: The Constantly Changing Genome of SARS-CoV-2 Subject: Science and technology Section: Biotechnology Mutation When a virus replicates, it makes copies of all of its genes. In the process, it makes mistakes, like typos in the string of 30,000 letters that make up the SARS-CoV-2 genome. Those mistakes may result […]
CAR-T therapy Subject: Science and technology Section: Biotechnology Context: In 2019, when Immuneel Therapeutics Ltd, founded by Pulitzer winning author and US oncologist Dr Siddhartha Mukherjee and leading biotech entrepreneur Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, planned to set up a breakthrough cell therapy facility for Chimeric antigen receptor T cells are T cells that have […]
Cell therapy cancer centre takes shape in Bengaluru, trials are on Subject: Science and technology Section: Biotechnology Context: In 2019, when Immuneel Therapeutics Ltd, founded by Pulitzer winning author and US oncologist Dr Siddhartha Mukherjee and leading biotech entrepreneur Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, planned to set up a breakthrough cell therapy facility for cancer. […]