Recently, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) transferred cost-effective Lithium-ion battery recycling technology to nine recycling industries and start-ups.   About Li-ion battery recycling technology – It is the indigenously developed technology that could process assorted types of discarded Li-ion batteries. It has the capacity of recovering more than 95 per cent Lithium… Continue reading Li-ion Battery Recycling Technology

The railways recently confirmed that there was no ‘Kavach’ system installed on the trains involved in the accident in Odisha’s Balasore district.   About Kavach System – It is an indigenously developed Automatic Train Protection (ATP) system. Kavach was developed by the Research Design and Standards Organisation (RDSO) under Indian Railway (IR) in collaboration with… Continue reading KAVACH System

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), which hosts the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), recently announced that scientists at the organisation found the first evidence of the rare process by which the Higgs boson decays into a Z boson and a photon.   About Higgs Boson – It is the fundamental force-carrying particle associated with the Higgs… Continue reading Higgs Boson

Astronomers have recently discovered a ‘quasi-moon’ called ‘2023 FW13’ that orbits the Earth but is actually gravitationally bound by the Sun.   About 2023 FW13 – It is an asteroid which has been designated as a quasi-satellite or a quasi-moon. It is among the few known quasi-moons or satellites that we know of in our… Continue reading 2023 FW13

A Foucault pendulum that rotates on its axis is suspended from the ceiling of the entrance hall of the Constitution Hall of India’s new Parliament building, signifying the integration of the idea of India with the idea of the cosmos. Created by the National Council of Science Museum (NCSM, Kolkata), the pendulum is being dubbed… Continue reading Foucault’s Pendulum

A group of scientists recently discovered a new antibiotic that can kill a deadly superbug called Acinetobacter baumannii.   About Acinetobactor baumannii – Acinetobacter is a group of bacteria (germs) commonly found in the environment, like in soil and water. While there are many types, the most common cause of infections is Acinetobacter baumannii, which accounts… Continue reading Acinebacter Baumannii

The European Space Agency’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) recently flashed an encoded message to Earth from its orbit around Mars.   About ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) – TGO is the first in a series of joint missions between the European Space Agency (ESA) and Roscosmos, the Russian space agency. Goal — To gain… Continue reading ExoMars GTO

The Indian Space Research Organisation is collaborating with the Raman Research Institute (RRI), Bengaluru to build the X-Ray Polarimeter Satellite (XPoSat) that is scheduled to be launched later this year.   What is the XPoSat mission? XPoSat will study various dynamics of bright astronomical X-ray sources in extreme conditions. It has been billed as India’s… Continue reading XPoSat

Recently, India’s AI Supercomputer ‘AIRAWAT’ has been ranked at No. 75 in the world at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC 2023) in Germany.   About Supercomputer ‘AIRAWAT’ – The supercomputer has been named in the 61st edition of the Top 500 Global Supercomputing List released recently. The AI supercomputer AIRAWAT’ is installed at C-DAC, Pune.… Continue reading AIRAWAT

Science and Technology Minister recently said that India is working on new technologies such as the small modular reactors.   About Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) – They are advanced nuclear reactors that have a power capacity of up to 300 MW(e) per unit, which is about one-third of the generating capacity of traditional nuclear power… Continue reading Small Modular Reactors