by Team Spectrum Books | Oct 3, 2023 | Science and Technology
Hurricane Idalia made its landfall on Florida’s Gulf Coast in August 2023, which proved to be more dangerous than the meteorologists had predicted. Initially, the meteorologists had predicted a near-normal Atlantic hurricane season, but as the worldwide surface...
by Team Spectrum Books | Sep 17, 2023 | Science and Technology
Scientists at the US National Ignition Facility (NIF) in California have successfully produced a nuclear fusion reaction which could pave the way for abundant clean energy in future. According to the researchers, the fusion experiments released more energy than was...
by Team Spectrum Books | Sep 17, 2023 | Science and Technology
In a major breakthrough, researchers of IIT-Jodhpur have designed special nanoparticles to fight cancer cells. Cancer cells develop drug resistance. Research was going on to find a way of killing cancer cells because cancer cells have developed ‘multi-drug resistance’...
by Team Spectrum Books | Sep 17, 2023 | Science and Technology
The first patient suffering from incurable T-cell cancer, namely Alyssa of 13, has been treated with base-edited T-cells gene therapy by the scientists in the UK. This trial was led by doctors and scientists at the University College, London, and Great Ormond Street...
by Team Spectrum Books | Sep 17, 2023 | Science and Technology
A hybrid solar eclipse, the rare celestial event, occurred with the greatest totality—the Moon fully covering the Sun—on April 20, 2023 (7.06 a.m. IST till 12.29 p.m. IST). It was observed in the region of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, specifically western Australia,...
by Team Spectrum Books | Sep 17, 2023 | Science and Technology
In June 2023, scientists unveiled the evidence that the Universe is reverberating with a background hum, or ‘ripples in the fabric of spacetime’ called gravitational waves. This cosmic sound is created by huge objects that keep moving around, colliding, and merging...
