Contents1 What is the News?2 What is Sagittarius A*(SgrA*)?3 Is this the first-ever image of a black hole?4 How is Sagittarius A* different from M87*?5 What is an Event Horizon Telescope?6 What is the significance of this discovery? What is the News? Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope(EHT) facility have revealed the first image of… Continue reading Astronomers reveal first image of black hole at the heart of Milky Way galaxy
Category: Factly: Science and Technology
This category contains all Current Affairs Factly Articles for Prelims, related to Science and Technology. You can find all relevant Science and Technology related updates on this page. This page is specifically useful for UPSC Prelims exam.
Adenoviruses: The Mystery of an Unknown Bug, Sick Kids
What is the News? The World Health Organization(WHO) has said that 348 probable cases of hepatitis in children potentially linked to adenovirus have been reported from 20 countries across five global regions. What is Hepatitis? Click Here to read about it What are Adenoviruses? Adenoviruses are a group of common viruses that infect the lining… Continue reading Adenoviruses: The Mystery of an Unknown Bug, Sick Kids
What is tomato flu? Who does it affect?
What is the News? Tamil Nadu has ramped up surveillance at its borders in the wake of “tomato flu” cases being detected in Kerala. What is Tomato Flu? Tomato Flu got its name from the tomato-shaped blisters it causes on the body. Vulnerable Population: The flu is affecting children below the age of five in… Continue reading What is tomato flu? Who does it affect?
New low-cost iron aluminide coatings can increase corrosion resistance in harsh media to four times of mild steel
What is the News? Scientists have developed low-cost iron-based intermetallic powders that can be used as a corrosion-resistant coating for materials exposed to harsher environments like high temperature in thermal power plants where oxidation, corrosion and wear and tear takes place simultaneously. Background Wear and corrosion cause major damage to materials that are exposed to… Continue reading New low-cost iron aluminide coatings can increase corrosion resistance in harsh media to four times of mild steel
A historic initiative by Department of Telecommunications – India advances in 5G/ORAN testing ecosystem through public private partnership
What is the News? Telecommunication Engineering Center(TEC), a technical arm of the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with VVDN Technologies Private Limited. The signing of MoU will facilitate registered startups, innovators and MSMEs working in the field of Open RAN to get their products tested at the existing lab… Continue reading A historic initiative by Department of Telecommunications – India advances in 5G/ORAN testing ecosystem through public private partnership
The standard model of particle physics gets a jolt
Contents1 What is the News? 2 What is the Standard Model of Elementary Particles?3 What are the Fundamental Particles described by this Model?4 Why is the standard model believed to be incomplete?5 What is W Boson? What is the News? Researchers from the Collider Detector at Fermilab(CDF) Collaboration in the U.S announced that they have made… Continue reading The standard model of particle physics gets a jolt
Explained: What is monkeypox, a smallpox-like disease from Africa that has been reported in the UK?
What is the News? Health authorities in the United Kingdom have confirmed a case of monkeypox, a rare viral infection similar to smallpox in an individual who recently travelled to the UK from Nigeria. What is Monkeypox? Monkeypox is a viral zoonotic disease (a disease that is transmitted from infected animals to humans) that occurs… Continue reading Explained: What is monkeypox, a smallpox-like disease from Africa that has been reported in the UK?
Explained: What is the Rocket-Propelled Grenade, used in attack on Punjab Police Intelligence HQ in Mohali?
What is the News? The Rocket-Propelled Grenade(RPG) attack on the Punjab Police’s Intelligence headquarters in Mohali has brought the weapon into focus. What is a Rocket Propelled Grenade(RPG)? Rocket-Propelled Grenade(RPG) is a weapon of Soviet origin and its initials stand for Rucknoy Peotivotankovvy Granaromyot which roughly translated means a handheld anti-tank grenade launcher. It is… Continue reading Explained: What is the Rocket-Propelled Grenade, used in attack on Punjab Police Intelligence HQ in Mohali?
Explained: Why VPN providers believe new rules will undermine users’ privacy
Contents1 What is the News?2 What is an IP address?3 What is Virtual Private Network(VPN)?4 Why is VPN important for users? What is the News? Virtual private network(VPN) service providers are up in arms against a new directive of The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team or Cert-In that mandates they must maintain all customer data… Continue reading Explained: Why VPN providers believe new rules will undermine users’ privacy
Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying hands over a “Go Kasht” machine to Project Arth and ENACTUS IIT Delhi students”
Contents1 What is the News?2 What is Go Kasht?3 How does the machine work?4 What are the benefits of this machine? What is the News? The Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying have handed over a cow dung log machine named “Go Kasht” to Project Arth and ENACTUS IIT Delhi students. What is… Continue reading Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying hands over a “Go Kasht” machine to Project Arth and ENACTUS IIT Delhi students”
