by Team Spectrum Books | Mar 3, 2023 | Science and Technology
The rare Green Comet, C/2022 E3 (ZTF), discovered in March 2022, at the Zwicky Transient Facility, in California, USA made its closest approach to the Earth on February 2, 2023. According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Green Comet...
by Team Spectrum Books | Nov 15, 2022 | Science and Technology
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), successfully crashed into its asteroid target, Dimorphos on September 26, 2022. This is the world’s first planetary defence technology demonstration. NASA’s first attempt was to shift and deflect the position of an...
by Team Spectrum Books | Nov 15, 2022 | Science and Technology
During the Seventh Bengaluru Space Expo 2022, Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced, in September 2022, that India is planning to design and build reusable rocket for the global market that would significantly cut the cost of launching...
by Team Spectrum Books | Nov 11, 2022 | Science and Technology
India’s first intranasal vaccine, iNCOVACC (BBV154) has been approved for primary inoculation by Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO). The vaccine was manufactured by Bharat Biotech and was developed by scientists at the Washington University. iNCOVACC...
by Team Spectrum Books | Nov 5, 2022 | Science and Technology
The gene-editing technology, CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) has been a breakthrough solution for many health problems in recent years. CRISPR has almost unlimited potential and has produced many flawless results in many clinical...
by Team Spectrum Books | Sep 26, 2022 | Science and Technology
A group of researchers from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, and the Tata Institute for Genetics and Society (TIGS), Bengaluru, have established a novel method of studying...
