by Team Spectrum Books | Aug 14, 2021 | Science and Technology
Scientists have, for the first time, detected gravitational waves ripples in the fabric of space-time produced by the collision of a neutron star and a black hole (NS-BH). On January 5, 2021, the Advanced LIGO detector in Louisiana, US, and the Advanced Virgo detector...
by Team Spectrum Books | Aug 10, 2021 | Science and Technology
Space tourism has been in news recently because of two billionaires, Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos who went into space as tourists using their personal rockets and aircraft. Space tourism is about humans travelling into space for recreational purposes, paying a hefty...
by Team Spectrum Books | Jul 12, 2021 | Science and Technology
The union cabinet on June 16, 2021, approved the Deep Ocean Mission (DOM), announced in the Union Budget for 2021-22. The mission seeks to tap vast marine living and non-living resources, conduct research on climate variables, develop deep-sea technologies for...
by Team Spectrum Books | Jun 18, 2021 | Science and Technology
Recently, a team of scientists have discovered how rice crops could be efficiently grown and cultivated by reducing the wastage of nitrogenous (N) fertilisers in order to save costs, and limit nitrogen related pollution. The inter-disciplinary team of researchers was...
by Team Spectrum Books | Jun 16, 2021 | Science and Technology
On April 7, 2021, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (or Fermilab) had conducted an experiment on elementary particles (similar to electrons) known as ‘muons’. Fermilab, established in 1967, and located near Chicago (US), is a United States Department of Energy...
by Team Spectrum Books | Apr 19, 2021 | Science and Technology
A study conducted in March 2021 by the Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, Delhi, in collaboration with the Department of Ocean Studies and Marine Biology, Pondicherry University, has for the first time found a deadly hospital pathogen, known as, the Candida auris, or...
