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Balon Protein

Source: TH Recently, scientists have discovered a protein, called Balon, that allows a bacterium, Psychrobacter urativorans to inhibit its cellular...

25 Jun 2024 Scientific Innovations & Discoveries

Holocaust and World War II

For Prelims: World War I, World War II, Decolonisation, Artificial Intelligence For Mains: Causes and Effects of World War II, Rise of Global...

20 Jun 2024 Scientific Innovations & Discoveries

Fintechs Leading India’s Start-up Ecosystem

For Prelims: Fintech industry, Internet, Crypto-currencies, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), Jan Dhan Yojna, Direct Benefits Transfer,...

13 Jun 2024 Scientific Innovations & Discoveries

Hawking Radiation

Recently, scientists proposed that small, hot "morsel" black holes, ejected during larger black hole mergers, could emit detectable high-energy...

12 Jun 2024 Scientific Innovations & Discoveries

Indian Army Received Hydrogen Buses

Source: PIB Recently, the Indian Army has collaborated with Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) for demonstration trials of Hydrogen Fuel Cell Bus...

06 Jun 2024 Scientific Innovations & Discoveries

Recombinant Proteins Using Monosodium Glutamate

Source: TH Why in News? Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru have made a significant breakthrough in the mass...

31 May 2024 Scientific Innovations & Discoveries

Sympatric Speciation

Source: IITB Why in News? A recent study from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-B) sheds light on the mechanisms of sympatric...

31 May 2024 Scientific Innovations & Discoveries

Working of Anaesthetic Drugs in the Brain

Source: TH Why in News? Recent research provides new clues into the mechanism of general anaesthesia suggesting that these drugs might act...

30 May 2024 Scientific Innovations & Discoveries

Astronomical Transients

Source: TH Recently, an Indian-American astronomer Shrinivas Kulkarni was awarded the Shaw Prize for Astronomy in 2024 for his work on the physics...

28 May 2024 Scientific Innovations & Discoveries

Electric Vertical Take-off and Landing Aircraft

Source: DTE The emergence of electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft has captured the attention of innovators, urban planners, and...

24 May 2024 Scientific Innovations & Discoveries

China’s High Energy Photon Source

Source: TOI Why in News? China is on the brink of a major scientific breakthrough with the construction of the High Energy Photon Source (HEPS), a...

18 May 2024 Scientific Innovations & Discoveries

GPT-4o

Source: IE Why in News? Recently, OpenAI introduced its latest large language model (LLM) called GPT-4o, billing it as their fastest and most...

16 May 2024 Scientific Innovations & Discoveries

Xenotransplantation

Source: IE Why in News? Recently, the first recipient of a modified pig kidney transplant passed away after his groundbreaking xenotransplantation...

14 May 2024 Scientific Innovations & Discoveries

Marine Cloud Brightening

For Prelims: Marine cloud brightening, Coral bleaching, Global warming, Great Barrier Reef, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. For Mains:...

24 Apr 2024 Scientific Innovations & Discoveries

Israel's GPS Spoofing Against Iran

Source: BS Why in News? Recent reports suggest that Israel employed Global Positioning System (GPS) spoofing techniques to protect against Iranian...

24 Apr 2024 Scientific Innovations & Discoveries

PRATUSH Telescope

Source: TH Why in the News? Astronomers globally are anticipating a new era of exploration with high-resolution telescopes set to be placed on the...

19 Apr 2024 Scientific Innovations & Discoveries

Time Zone for Moon

Source: LM Why in the News? Recently, the European Space Agency is planning a universal timekeeping system for the moon. What is Timekeeping on...

13 Apr 2024 Scientific Innovations & Discoveries

Semiconductor Chip Manufacturing Technology

For Prelims: Semiconductors, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Critical Information Infrastructures, Industry 4.0,...

09 Apr 2024 Scientific Innovations & Discoveries

Using AI in Elections

For Prelims: Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI), Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Deep fake, World Economic Forum’s (WEF’s),...

30 Mar 2024 Scientific Innovations & Discoveries

Google DeepMind’s SIMA and AlphaGeometry

For Prelims: Scalable Instructable Multiworld Agent, AI gaming agent, OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, Generative AI. For Mains:...

28 Mar 2024 Scientific Innovations & Discoveries