Category: CA Concepts

US developed and field-tested GE version of American chestnut tree (named as Darling 58) and is awaiting clearances from government agencies to grow them in wild.

Recently, a new study has found that non-natural light had increased the brightness of Skyglow, by 9.2-10% every year between 2011 and 2022 with significant ecological, health and cultural implications.

Demo-run of inland water vessel (SB Gangadhar) powered by methanol blended diesel (MD15) in Guwahati, Assam was held in run-up to India Energy Week 2023 (IEW 2023).

Swedish state-owned mining company (LKAB) discovered more than one million tonnes of rare earth oxides in the northern area Sweden which is the largest known deposit in Europe.

After 4 months and 55 deaths, the latest Ebola epidemic in Uganda (worst in 2 decades) was declared over by the WHO.

As per an autonomous Research and Development Centre of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), a new method of deposition of Nickel alloy coatings on engineering-grade materials can replace environmentally toxic chrome plating.

A group of researchers from Italy used “state-of-the-art theoretical and computational approaches” to explain the superconductivity in Mercury using BCS theory.

NTPC with Gujarat Gas Ltd (GGL) started India’s 1st green hydrogen blending operation in Piped Natural Gas (PNG) network in Surat.

Researchers have found the first known “Virovore”, an organism that eats viruses which may change our understanding of the role viruses play in the food chain at a microscopic level.

Recently, six children with rare disorders caused by deletion in the genomes of their mitochondria were successfully treated for the first time by Stem-cell derived Mitochondria Transplantation.

Bharat Biotech’s intranasal vaccine, BBV154 or Incovacc is the world’s first intranasal vaccine to be approved as a booster dose for Covid-19.

Recently, the results of a trial of messenger Ribonucleic Acid vaccine made by Moderna and MSD (Merck & Co.) when taken along with an immunotherapy drug Keytruda has shown promising results against advanced melanoma, a kind of skin cancer.