Subject: Science and tech Context: Vaccine trials bring importance of Safety and Immunogenic of vaccine Concept: Immunogenicity is the ability of a foreign substance to enter a person’s body and cause an immune response. A great example of immunogenicity is a vaccination. When a person gets vaccinated, they are injected with a very tiny amount of […]
Subject: Science and tech Context: The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is working on developing “mega labs” to ramp up testing for COVID-19 as well as improve the accuracy rate. Concept: These labs will be repurposing large machines, called Next Generation Sequencing machines (NGS), which are normally used for sequencing human genomes, to […]
Subject: Science and tech Context: A massive Sunspot group, AR2770, was observed last week, claimed using images of the Sun’s surface from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Concept: Sunspots are areas that appear dark on the surface of the Sun. They appear dark because they are cooler than other parts of the Sun’s surface. It’s cool […]
Subject: Science and tech Context: The Engineered Material Arresting System (EMAS) approved by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is one of the most common safety mechanisms in use around the world. Concept: TheUS Federal Aviation Administration (FAA ) began conducting research in the 1990s to determine how to improve safety at airports where the full […]
Subject: Science and tech Context: In India, Perseid meteor shower starting August 11 or August 12 and the visibility of the meteor shower is high late in the night from 2 AM to dawn Concept: A meteor is a space rock or meteoroid that enters Earth’s atmosphere. As the space rock falls toward Earth, the […]
Subject: Science and tech Context: Investigators have found the “black boxes” of the ill-fated Boeing 737-800 aircraft which get crashed at Kozhikode Concept: The black boxes are two orange metallic boxes containing the recorders which date back to the early 1950s, when, following plane crashes, investigators were unable to arrive a conclusive cause for the […]