by Team Spectrum Books | Mar 26, 2022 | Science and Technology
Cellular networks have been witnessing a major transformation since the launch of the first-generation mobile services. The first-generation (1G) mobile services in the early 1980s were capable of transmitting only voice calls. The present generation of mobile...
by Team Spectrum Books | Mar 23, 2022 | Science and Technology
A team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Bhopal, have developed a new way to produce silver nanomaterials (AgNMs) which can be used as antimicrobial agents. The process is proved to be safe and easy compared to...
by Team Spectrum Books | Mar 23, 2022 | Science and Technology
In March 2021, the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) published the draft of the Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Rules 2021. The union government sought the feedback on the draft UAS rules from academia, start-ups, end-users, and other stakeholders. The draft rules...
by Team Spectrum Books | Dec 18, 2021 | Science and Technology
Despite prohibitory orders and bans on manual scavenging in sewers and septic tanks, there have been many deaths due to this practice. As per the statement of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, in the last five years till December 31, 2020, 340 deaths...
by Team Spectrum Books | Dec 11, 2021 | Science and Technology
The Matosinhos Manifesto, a manifesto on the use of space in Europe, was approved by the European Space Agency (ESA) on November 19, 2021. The council of ministers of ESA unanimously adopted the resolution at the intermediate ministerial meeting (IMM) held in...
by Team Spectrum Books | Sep 12, 2021 | Science and Technology
A new technique has been developed by researchers from IIT Madras and IISER Kolkata to detect minute quantities of chemicals in solution. They used a variation of absorption spectroscopy that surpasses the systemic limits, imposed by conventional absorption...
