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Earth Trojan Asteroid

The Trojan asteroids are those asteroids that share a common orbit with a planet in the solar system. These rocks circle the same star as that of the...

February 3, 2022

KAVACH Technology in Railways

During the budget presentation, the finance minister Smt Nirmala Sitaraman announced that the safety of the Indian trains is to be increased through the KAVACH technology. The railways...

February 3, 2022

Working of e – Passports

The Government of India is to launch e – passports from 2022 – 23. This is to increase the convenience of the citizens. This was announced by the...

February 3, 2022

Plastic snowfall in the Alps

The researchers from Austria, Netherlands and Switzerland have found that trillions of plastic particles fall along with snow in Switzerland. These particles travel 2000 kilometres through air. What...

February 2, 2022

Humbertium covidum: New hammerhead flatworm species

Scientists recently discovered Humbertium covidum. These are new flat worn species. They look like a mini cobra. The new species were found hunting snails in Italy and France....

February 2, 2022

SpaceX Italian Earth-observation satellite

On February 1, 2022, SpaceX launched the Italian Earth-observation satellite, Cosmo-SkyMed Second Generation FM2 (CSG-2) after scrubbing the scheduled lift-off for fourth consecutive time. It was launched from...

February 2, 2022

New Leprosy Cases during 2020-21 in India

Though India was declared “leprosy-free” in 2005, it still accounts for around 60 per cent of world’s new leprosy patients. Key Points According to data of ‘National Leprosy...

February 1, 2022

NASA HERMES Mission

On January 27, 2022, NASA’s HERMES mission passed a critical mission review. Highlights HERMES mission is a four-instrument suite, which will be mounted outside NASA’s Moon-orbiting Gateway. The...

February 1, 2022

NASA Study: Water on Mars

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has found that Mars had water two billion years ago. But today all the water in the planet are evaporated. This was confirmed by...

February 1, 2022

COVID: IIT-J AI-based Chest X-Ray

An Artificial Intelligence (AI) based chest X-Ray technique was recently developed by researchers from Indian Institutes of Technology Jodhpur (IIT-J). This chest X-Ray technique will be used for...

January 31, 2022

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