What’s the Difference Between a Comet, Asteroid and Meteor?
Where asteroids are located? Most asteroids lie in a vast ring between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Not everything in the main belt is an asteroid, for instance, comets have…
SUNSPOT CYCLE
Sunspot cycle: The amount of magnetic flux that rises up to the Sun’s surface varies with time in a cycle called the solar cycle. This cycle lasts 11 years on…
Goldilocks Zone
NASA has reported the discovery of an Earth-size planet, named TOI 700 d, orbiting its star in the “habitable zone”. Details: A habitable zone, also called the “Goldilocks…
What is Planet?
Three conditions for a celestial object to be called a ‘planet’ – it must orbit the Sun it should be massive enough to acquire an approximately spherical shape…
30th April – Editorials/Opinions Analyses
Contents Afghan peace and India’s elbow room Limitations of online learning COVID-19 A greater impact on women Strategic Shift – Reserving Healthcare for those who need it most…
VACCINE HESITANCY
Recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) in a report held that Vaccine hesitancy is among the top 10 threats to global health in 2019. WHO defines Vaccine hesitancy as a delay in…
microRNA
A team from the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bengaluru, has found that the rich colour in fruits and leaves of plants are indirectly controlled by specific…
MUKTOSHRI ARSENIC-RESISTANT RICE
West Bengal government’s rice research centre has come up with a new variety of rice called Muktoshri that can be grown in arsenic prone areas. It was developed jointly by the Rice Research Station at Chinsurah,…
FOOD IRRADIATION
Food irradiation is a technology in which food products are subjected to a low dosage of radiation to treat them for germs and insects, increasing their longevity and…
POLYCRACK TECHNOLOGY
It is world’s first patented heterogeneous catalytic process which converts multiple feed stocks into hydrocarbon liquid fuels, gas, carbon and water. The process is a closed-loop system and…