Science and technology current affairs – important updates from the field of science and technology
India Becomes First Country To Land On Moon’s South Pole: Chandrayaan-3, India’s third lunar mission, achieved a remarkable milestone by successfully touching down on the Moon’s surface at 6:03 PM IST on Wednesday, August 23. This accomplishment is significant because it marks India as the first nation to land a Read more…
National Technology Day 2023 In this 21st century, technology has successfully changed the dynamics of modernity. Science has always proved to be a boon in every life segment. All the sectors such as health, transportation, banking, hospitality, entertainment, information and data management, mass communication, and other aspects of daily survival Read more…
GPT 4 vs Chat GPT: OpenAI, a startup supported by Microsoft Corp, has started introducing GPT-4, a robust AI model that surpasses the technology utilised in the widely favoured ChatGPT. GPT-4 is “multimodal,” implying that it can create content based on image and text prompts. Since its release in November of last Read more…
Greatest Inventions of All Time and Their Inventors: It is difficult to definitively determine the best inventions of all time, as different people may have different criteria for what makes an invention valuable or important. However, some inventions that have had a significant impact on society and changed the world Read more…
James Webb Space Telescope First Image (the deepest image of the universe ever taken) has been released on 12 July 2022. The first full-color and high-resolution image from Nasa’s James Webb space telescope is out. During a White House event on Monday, July 11, President Joe Biden unveiled this image Read more…
International Space Station Retirement Plan: NASA has announced that the ISS – a lab in space – is scheduled to be retired in January 2031, after which it will fall into the Pacific Ocean. As the International Space Station enters its third decade of operation, it is entering its most Read more…
NASA Parker Solar Probe: Our understanding of the Sun is being revolutionized by NASA’s historic Parker Solar Probe mission, which is measuring how changing solar conditions can affect Earth and other planets. In order for humanity to get the closest observations of a star, Parker Solar Probe travels through the Read more…
Extraterrestrial Photosynthesis Discovery: In school, we learned about photosynthesis, in other words, how plants change carbon dioxide into oxygen. How about the Moon’s soil that can convert carbon dioxide into oxygen and fuel too? Scientists at Nanjing University in China found that lunar soil contains compounds capable of achieving this. Using Read more…
International Liquid Mirror Telescope: The world’s largest liquid mirror telescope has been commissioned in India, which is expected to help observe transient and diffuse astronomical phenomena more cost-effectively. Scientists from India, Belgium, and Canada built the instrument, which will be housed in Devasthal Observatory of the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Read more…
X-Particles: Scientists at CERN’s Large Hadron CXollider in Switzerland were recently able to detect a vanishingly rare particle they believe was present at the beginning of time. For now, the particle is called an X particle since nobody knows exactly what it is. It was created by colliding billions of Read more…