INDEMNITY CLAUSE AND COVID 19 VACCINES Subject: Science & tech Context: The Union government is in talks with foreign manufacturers of COVID-19 vaccines on their demand for indemnity from liability as a condition for selling their vaccines to the country. Concept: Pfizer, which supplies the Pfizer-Biotech mRNA vaccine, is said to have requested […]
CIBER 2 AND COUNTING OF STARS Subject : Science & tech Context : Recently, a NASA-funded rocket’s launch window will open at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, USA. Concept : Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment (CIBER)-2 The scientists have estimated that on average each galaxy consists of about 100 million stars […]
ECHOLOCATION Subject : Science & tech Context : The Durham research, published on Wednesday in the journal PLOS One, focuses on how easily visually impaired people can learn echolocation, and whether age influences learning. Concept : Echolocation Echolocation, also called bio sonar, is a biological sonar used by several animal species. Echolocating animals […]
NCDC STUDY POINTD TO DELTA VARIANT BEHIND APRIL CORONA WAVE Subject : Science & tech Context : In a study carried out by scientists of INSACOG (the consortium of labs undertaking genome sequencing in India) and National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on the reasons behind the second wave has revealed that despite […]
DECLINE IN STAR FORMATION ACTIVITY Subject : Science & tech Context : Recently, a team of astronomers from the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA-TIFR) in Pune, and the Raman Research Institute (RRI) have discovered the reason behind decline in star formation activity 8 billion years ago Concept : The study stated that […]
USE OF MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES WILL HALT COVID PROGRESSION Subject : Science & tech Context : The initial use of monoclonal antibody cocktail, the combination of drugs used on former US President Donald Trump and given emergency use approval in India in early May, has given encouraging results, with doctors involved touting it as […]
RIL SUBMITS A PROPOSAL FOR A POTENTIAL COVID DRUG Subject: Science & tech Context: Reliance Industries Ltd’s R&D arm has proposed the use of Niclosamide – the drug used to treat tapeworm infestation – for treating COVID-19 patients. Concept : Niclosamide, a drug on the World Health Organisation’s list of essential medicines, has […]
H10N3 BIRD FLU DETECTED IN HUMAN Subject: Science & tech Context : A 41-year-old man in China’s eastern Jiangsu Province is the first known human to be infected with a strain of bird flu known as H10N3, China’s National Health Commission said on Tuesday — a development that experts said merited close monitoring […]
CHINA’S ARTIFICIAL SUN EXPERIMENTAL FUSION REACTOR Subject: Science & tech Context: For 20 seconds, China’s ‘artificial sun’ EAST achieved a peak temperature of 288 million degrees Fahrenheit, which is over ten times hotter than the sun Concept: China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), which mimics the energy generation process of the sun, set […]
LEO TECHNOLOGY: INTERNET FROM SKY Subject: Science & technology Context: Following the successful launch of 36 satellites on May 28, OneWeb’s Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation reached 218 in-orbit satellites. Concept: The company only has one more launch to complete before it obtains the capacity to enable its ‘Five to 50’ service of […]