Category: CA Science

02
Jan

Deep Technology

Government will launch the Digital India Innovation Fund to support deep tech startups.

30
Dec

India’s first waste-to-hydrogen project

India is planning to build its first waste-to-hydrogen project in Pune, Maharashtra.

24
Dec

Sand Battery

Finland has installed the world’s first fully working “sand battery” in its town called Kankaanpaa capable of storing green power for months at a time.

24
Dec

Incovacc – Intranasal Covid-19 Vaccine

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.

20
Dec

Anticancer mRNA Vaccine

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.

16
Dec

DNA Base Editing for Cancer Treatment

Recently, scientists in the United Kingdom (UK) have successfully tested a new form of cancer therapy, ‘Base Editing’ for the time in a patient with T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (T-ALL).

15
Dec

Near-Earth Asteroid Ryugu

A sample of a space rock called Ryugu that was carried to Earth in 2020 by the Japanese space agency’s asteroid sample-return mission, Hayabusa 2 may hold the answers to the origin of the Earth.

14
Dec

Nuclear Fusion

Recently a few scientists at the Lawrence Livermore facility, the US have achieved a net gain in energy from a nuclear fusion reaction, which is seen as a big breakthrough.

12
Dec

NASA’s Orion

NASA’s Orion Returns to Earth after historic Moon Mission.

12
Dec

HAKUTO-R mission

Japan’s ispace launches world’s 1st commercial moon lander.

03
Dec

Equuleus Spacecraft

Recently, Japan’s space agency JAXA successfully used steam to propel Equuleus (EQUilibriUm Lunar-Earth point 6U) Spacecraft toward the moon.

30
Nov

Satellite Earth Station Gateway

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released recommendations on ‘Licensing Framework for Establishing and Operating Satellite Earth Station Gateway (SESG)’.