Volcano erupts in Southern Caribbean

The La Sourfriere Volcano located on the eastern Caribbean island recently erupted after decades of inactivity. The volcano forced thousands in the surrounding villages to evacuate. About the Volcano The Volcano was dormant since 1979. It started showing signs of activity in December 2020. When the volcano erupted in 1979 it created 100 million USD ..

Month: Current Affairs - April, 2021

Category: International Current Affairs • Science & Technology Current Affairs

Topics: Active Volcano • Caribbean • Caribbean Island • Coral reef • tectonic plates

What are Dark Sirens?

A team of scientists have recently found a way to solve cosmological tensions through dark sirens. What are Dark Sirens? The Dark Sirens are nothing but gravitational waves from neutron stars or black holes. The Dark sirens can be picked up by gravitational wave detector but not by ordinary telescopes. What are the Cosmological tensions ..

Month: Current Affairs - April, 2021

Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs

Topics: Dark Sirens • Gravitational wave • Hubble Constant • LIGO • Milky Way • Quasars

NanoSniffer: Microsensor based Explosive Trace Detector

The Union Education Minister recently launched the world’s first Microsensor based Explosive Trace Detector called the “NanoSniffer”. About NanoSniffer The NanoSniffer was developed by an IIT Bombay incubated startup called NanoSniff Technologies. It is marketed by the IIT Delhi incubated startup Kritikal Solutions. The NanoSniffer can detect explosives in less than ten seconds. It can ..

Month: Current Affairs - April, 2021

Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs

Topics: Explosives • IIT Bombay • IIT Delhi • Incubation Centre • MEMS • nanosniffer • Nanotechnology • Research and Development

What are Quasars? How do they help in understanding Universe?

Recently, a group of astronomers have discovered a dozen of quasars that were warped by naturally occurring cosmic lens. Warping is twisting. With this discovery, the number of known quasars have increased by 25%. This can help to determine the expansion rate of the universe and will also help address other mysteries. What are Quasars? ..

Month: Current Affairs - April, 2021

Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs

Topics: Black hole • Cosmic rays • Expansion of Universe • Hubble Constant • Milky Way • Quasars

Robo Plant: Technology to interact with plants

The scientists from Singapore have developed a technology to interact with plants. The technology has been named as “Robo Plant”. About the Robo Plant Technology The technology helps to control the plants using smart phone applications. In future, this technology can be further used to enable farmers to detect diseases in plants. The plants can ..

Month: Current Affairs - April, 2021

Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs

Topics: Agriculture • Biomedical Research • Diseases • Farmers • plant diseases • Research • Robo Plant • Singapore