Category: Current Science &Technology Updates

Blockchain Technology :How it works and applications

Blockchain is a shared, immutable ledger that facilitates the process of recording transactions and tracking assets in a business network. An asset can be tangible (a house, car, cash, land) or intangible (intellectual property, patents, copyrights, branding). Virtually anything of value can be tracked and traded on a blockchain network, reducing risk and cutting costs for all involved. A simple analogy for understanding blockchain technology is a Google […]

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Review of india’s renewable energy resources

India’s renewable power capacity is the fourth largest in the world and is growing at the fastest speed among all major countries. India is a big market and a lot of countries are attracted towards it in terms of One Sun, One World, One Grid The renewable energy capacity in India is currently 136 Giga Watts, which is about 36% […]

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Agriculture Affecting Climate & Changing Climate Affecting Agriculture

While the agriculture sector is responsible for climate change due to Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions, it is also severely impacted by the effects of changing climate. Climate change is also threatening India’s agricultural growth with frequent dry spells, heat waves and erratic rainfall. Besides, the changing rainfall patterns in the form of delayed onset or early withdrawal […]

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Application of Gene-Editing

Application of Gene-Editing Agriculture: It is being tried out in agriculture primarily to increase plant yield, quality, disease resistance, herbicide resistance and domestication of wild species. The huge potential to edit genes using this tool has been used to create a large number of crop varieties with improved agronomic performance; it has also brought in sweeping […]

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eco-friendly crude oil bioremediation mechanism technology

The National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), Chnnai has developed an eco-friendly crude oil bioremediation mechanism technology using consortia (group of two or more species) of marine microbes wheat bran (WB) immobilized (microbes controlled degradation) on agro-residue bacterial cells. Wheat bran is the hard outer layer of the wheat kernel. It’s stripped away during the milling process. Key Points Eco-friendly Crude Oil Bioremediation Mechanism Technology Bioremediation: It […]

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Increasing emission of nitrous oxide

Nitrous Oxide (N2O): It is a greenhouse gas (GHG) 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide (CO2). It has the third-highest concentration, after CO2 and methane (CH4), in Earth’s atmosphere among GHGs responsible for global warming. N2O is also the only remaining threat to the ozone (O3) layer, for it accumulates in the atmosphere over a long period of time, just like CO2. It can live in the atmosphere […]

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Lithium Production in Stars

Lithium Production in Stars Scientists performed a large-scale systematic investigation of the ‘He-flash’ (on-set of He-ignition at the star’s core via violent eruption), at the end of the star’s core hydrogen-burning phase. Hydrogen burning is the fusion of hydrogen nuclei into a helium nucleus. This He-flash has been identified as the source of Li production suggesting that all low-mass stars undergo Li production.Our Sun will […]

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What is biofortification?

What is biofortification? Biofortification is the process of increasing nutritional value of food crops by increasing the density of vitamins and minerals in a crop through either conventional plant breeding; agronomic practices or biotechnology. Examples of these vitamins and minerals that can be increased through biofortification include provitamin A Carotenoids, zinc and iron. How are […]

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xenobots a ‘new form of life’—neither living organisms nor machines

Medicinal bioengineering has made tremendous advances in the past year. Nothing, however, compares with the development of xenobots, designed by an evolutionary algorithm and surgically engineered using embryonic stem cells from a frog species, by scientists at the University of Vermont and Tufts University. Michel Levin, a lead researcher involved in this development, calls xenobots […]

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Himalayan Gold/aphrodisiac

Himalayan Gold In the Himalayas, the reliance of local communities on the trade and collection of Himalayan Gold, caterpillar fungus has become extremely popular in recent decades. Caterpillar fungus (Ophiocordyceps Sinensis) is a fungal parasite of larvae (caterpillars) that belongs to the ghost moth. It has been used in traditional Tibetan and Chinese medicine as […]

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