Union Minister for Science and Technology Harsh Vardhan on January 8, 2018, dedicated India’s fastest and first ‘multi-petaflops’ supercomputer “Pratyush” to the nation in Pune. ‘Pratyush’, (the sun) is the High Performance Computing (HPC) facility and it has been established Read More …
Category: Science&Tech
Falcon Heavy: World’s Most Powerful Rocket
-USA’s private space organisation, Space-X will launch ‘the world’s most powerful rocket’, ‘Falcon Heavy’ in January 2018. This rocket will be fired on Mars. -The Falcon Heavy ‘megarocket’ will be fired from Kennedy Space Centre near Cape Canaveral, Florida. It Read More …
20% Less Depletion in Ozone Layer since 2005
-As per the study published in Geophysical Research Letters, a global effort to contain ozone layer depletion has resulted positively. -Due to decline in ozone depleting chemicals, specifically chlorine, has resulted in 20% less depletion since 2005. – According to Read More …
Oumuamua-First known interstellar object
Oumuamua, an cigar like object that passed through our solar system, is now classified as an ‘interstellar object’ by the International Astronomical union. This object was earlier considered a comet, but it didn’t develop a tail passing near the sun, Read More …
SOFIA-world’s largest airborne astronomical observatory
-SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) is the world’s largest airborne astronomical observatory. -SOFIA is a joint project between NASA and the German Aerospace Centre, DLR. – It is gearing up for 2018 with missions planned between February 2018 and January 2019. Read More …
Four new dwarf hot Jupiter planets discovered
Scientists of Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany have discovered four new G-type ‘hot Jupiter’ extra-solar planets orbiting dwarf stars. These planets are: HATS-50, HATS-51, HATS-52 and HATS-53. -These were discovered ssing telescopes of the Hungarian-made Automated Telescope Network-South (HATSouth) Read More …
NASA’S Parker Solar Probe for Sun
US space agency, NASA is turning 60 in 2018 and on this occasion it is planning to launch a slew of important missions in 2018. -One of those planned mission for 2018 is NASA’s Parker Solar Probe to explore the Sun’s Read More …
World’s first double whirlpool discovered
-Finally, scientists have discovered the world’s first double whirlpool, which was earlier existed only in theory. -Scientist of University of Liverpool, London have done this miracle. -Scientists have discovered this unique world’s first double whirlpool, called Modons, in Tasman sea. Read More …
Scientists discovered pair of eddies or ‘smoke rings’ in the Tasman Sea
Scientists of University of Liverpool, UK have discovered ‘smoke rings’ in the Tasman Sea which may ‘suck up’ small marine creatures and carry them at high speed and for long distances across the ocean. -Researchers found a pair of eddies Read More …
WFIRST: New telescope for the largest picture of universe
NASA will launch a space telescope that will provide the largest picture of our universe ever seen, with the same depth and clarity as the Hubble Space Telescope. -It has been named as Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope or WFIRST. -NASA Read More …
3200 Phaethon—an Apollo asteroid: captured by Arecibo Observatory
According to the Space.com, 3200 Phaethon—an Apollo asteroid—came the closest to Earth it has ever been on December 16. On that date, the Arecibo Observatory Planetary Radar—the world’s second largest single dish radio telescope captured high-quality images of the asteroid, which Read More …
A new neural network chip-machine think like human
Researchers from University of Michigan in the US have developed a new type of neural network chip that can dramatically improve the efficiency of teaching machines to think like humans. -The network, called a reservoir computing system, could predict words Read More …
Kunlong, the World’s largest amphibious aircraft
World’s largest amphibious aircraft in production, China’s indigenous AG600, , took to the skies on 24 December for its maiden flight from the southern city of Zhuhai -This aircraft is codenamed Kunlong. With a wingspan of 38.8 metres (127ft) and powered Read More …
Remains of a 150 million-year-old giant carnivorous marine reptile or Plesiosaur discovered in Antarctica
Scientists have discovered the remains of a 150 million-year-old giant carnivorous marine reptile or Plesiosaur that lived in the waters of Antarctica. The creature is the first of its species located in Antarctica and the oldest creature ever found on Read More …
Breakthrough of the Year 2017: Cosmic Convergence
Famous academic journal Science Magazine on Dec. 21 declared first observation of a neutron-star merger (Cosmic Convergence) as a ‘Science’s 2017 Breakthrough of the Year’. According to the journal the way the event was spotted, which involved detecting the gravitational Read More …