Science Repository

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Based on Current Affairs ranging from July'22 till Dec'23

Vaccines in News

• Intra Nasal Vaccine
• mRNA Vaccine
• DNA Vaccine
• VLP Vaccine ➡️ CERVAVAC
• Indigenous Dengue Vaccine
• Malaria Vaccines
• Biosynthetic Vaccine
• Polysaccharide Vaccine
• Live Attenuated Vaccines
• Inactivated Vaccine

Disease Outbreaks & Micro-organisms in News

• Norovirus
• Lumpy Skin Disease
• Legionnaires Disease
• Wolbachia Method curbing dengue by 77%
• Strep A
• H3N2 Influenza Virus
• H5N1 Avian Influenza
• MPOX - no more a threat acc to WHO
• Paxlovid
• NIPAH Virus
• Scrub Typhus
• Western Equine Encephalitis

Genetic Disorders in News

• Thalassemia
• Duchenne’s Muscular Dystrophy

Other Diseases in News

• Osteoporosis
• CAR T-Cell Therapy for Cancer
  • NexCAR19
• Proton Beam Therapy for Cancer

Telescopes in News

• Euclid Space Telescope
• James Webb Telescope
• SUIT
• International Liquid Mirror Telescope
• SARAS 3 Telescope

Satellites in News

• Blue Walker 3 Satellite
• X Ray Polarimeter Satellite
• Advanced Navigation Satellite NVS 01
• First Global Surface Water Survey Satellite
• SSLV - D2
• POEM - PSLV C55
• NISAR
• Solar Orbiter Aircraft
• INSAT 3DS

Nuclear Technology

• India’s first indigenously developed 700 MW Nuclear Power Reactor

Biotechnology in News

• cfDNA
• Fungi based Enzyme for Industrial Dye Effluents
• Pink Bollwarm
• Organ chips
• Organoid Intelligence
  • Brain Organoids
    • Bio Computers
• GIP

Space Technology in News

• China’s Tiangong Space Station
• ISS
• New India Space Policy 2023
• India’s LIGO Project by 2030
• India’s first dark reservoir ➡️ Hanle
• Positioning Systems
• India’s first private launch vehicle

Space Missions / Other Key Missions

• ADITYA L1 Mission 1
• Chandrayaan - 3
• Artemis Mission
• LUPEX
• OSIRIS REx
• JUICE
• Shukrayaan I Mission
• Gaganyaan Mission
• Samudrayaan - Deep Ocean Mission

Intra-stellar Findings

• Fast Radio Bursts
• Quasars
• Muons and Muography
• Jupiter with the highest Moons

Surveys, Reports & Findings

• Non Communicable Diseases Rising in India
• Only 1% of women screened for cervical cancer in India (Hindu Data Point)

Sub-atomic Particles, Elements & Compounds in News

• Carbon Nanoflorets
• White Phosphorous
• Thallium
• Graphene
• Higgs Boson
• National Quantum Mission : 2023-2030
• Qubits and Phonons
  • Majorana Zero Modes
• Quantum Dots
• New Quasicrystal Discovery
• Tantalum in Sutlej
• Attoseconds Science
• New material offers lossless energy possibility

ICT

• eSIM
• Artificial Synapse via ScN
• Bandicoot Robot
• MicroLED Display Technology
• AI Related
  • Multimodal AI
  • Regulation of Deep Fakes
  • Google’s BARD
  • ChatGPT
  • Alphafold
• Cybersecurity Related
  • BharOS
  • MAYA OS
  • Dark Patterns
  • E2E Encrption
  • Lockbit Ransomware

Defence Technology & Infra.

• Ballistic Missile AGNI PRIME
• Indigenous Air Independent Propulsion System for Submarines
• Vshorad Missile System
• High Altitude Balloons
• Nagastra
• BRAHMOS II Missile

Health Missions & Eradication Targets

• National Tobacco Control Program
• National Mental Health Program
• Ayushman Bharat - PM Jan Arogya Yojana
• Eat Right India Movement ➡️ by FSSAI for trans fat free by 2022
• National Salt Reduction Initiative
• National Action Plan for NCD
• NP-NCD
• AMR Initiatives
• Elimination of Kalaazar
• Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis by 2027
• TB Elimination by 2025
• Leprosy Elimination by 2027