Science and technology current affairs – important updates from the field of science and technology
Oil-eating Bacteria – Introduction A team of scientists from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England has discovered a unique oil eating bacteria in the deepest part of the Earth’s oceans – the Mariana Trench. The discovery that could one day save the planet from the ecological devastation of Read more…
Homo luzonensis – An international team of paleoanthropologists has found that a new human species with a unique mix of primitive (that is, Australopithecus-like) and derived (that is, Homo sapiens-like) morphological features lived in the Philippines approximately 67,000 years ago. The new species was uncovered in Callao Cave in the Peñablanca Read more…
The matter is termed as the “stuff” of the universe — the atoms, molecules, and ions that make up all physical substances. Basically, matter is anything that has mass and takes up space. In elementary science, we learned that there are three basic states of matter namely – solid, liquid Read more…
Black Hole Image Congratulations, humanity! The first-ever REAL image of a black hole from the center of the galaxy M87 has finally been published today on April 10, 2019, by the scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration terming it a groundbreaking result. We know that a picture is worth a Read more…
Stephen Hawking’s theory on tiny black holes as the source of dark matter does not hold true anymore. An international team of scientists has proved wrong to the late and great Stephen Hawking’s theory on primordial black holes and dark matter by putting his theory to its “most rigorous test to Read more…
World’s first country to adapt 5G Technology (World’s first 5G phone) 5G mobile services are now on, officially, after the recent announcement from South Korea that the country has launched the world’s first 5G mobile network. South Korea has claimed the feat beating the US by a matter of hours! Read more…
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in its 47th mission of Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C45) will launch the primary electronic intelligence satellite, EMISAT, 28 international customer satellites and three scientific instruments, namely, Automatic Identification System (AIS) from ISRO, Automatic Packet Repeating System (APRS) from AMSAT (Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation), India and Advanced Read more…
India’s first anti–satellite (ASAT) missile test, dubbed as Mission Shakti, has finally been confirmed with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s another address to the nation. With this milestone, India has entered an elite space club becoming the fourth nation to do so. Till now only three countries- the US, Russia, and China Read more…
What is West Nile Virus? West Nile Virus is a single-stranded RNA virus that causes West Nile fever. It was discovered in the West Nile district of Uganda in 1937 and was identified in birds (crows and columbiformes) in the Nile delta region in 1953. Before 1997 West Nile Virus Read more…