The Ministry of Mines is to launch the National Geoscience Data Repository (NGDR) Portal on 19th December 2023 in a ceremony in New Delhi.
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Additional organic molecules found in Enceladus’s plume
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‘New Delhi Declaration’ on artificial intelligence adopted.
New Delhi Declaration on artificial intelligence About Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) GPAI Summits Responsible AI (RAI) Data governance Principles for responsible stewardship of trustworthy AI National policies and…
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, currently over 16 million kilometres away inspace, successfully fired a laser signal at Earth recently in November 2023.
The spacecraft is on its way to a unique metal-rich asteroid, orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. Scientists believe this asteroid is the nickel-iron core of an early planet,…
The UK drug regulator recently approved a gene therapy for the cure of sickle cell disease and thalassaemia
This is the first licensed therapy in the world based on thegene editing technology Crispr-Cas9 that earned its innovators a Nobel Prize in 2020. About Casgevy Working of Therapy ●…
CAR-T cell therapy
IN NEWS: The Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) recently granted market authorization for NexCAR19, India’s first indigenously developed CAR-T cell therapy, to ImmunoACT, a company incubated by IIT Bombay.…
Rare earth elements
Rare earth elements Rare earths are divided into two distinct groups Importance of Rare Earth Metals Rare earth metals play a key role in our daily lives because of their…
Lymphatic Filariasis
IN NEWS: Lao PDR becomes the second country in 2023 after Bangladesh to eliminate lymphatic filariasis. Lymphatic filariasis There are three types of these thread-like filarial worms: Lymphatic filariasis is…
Nanoparticle pollution
kingmakers.institute IN NEWS: Why tiny pollutants called nanoparticles are more harmful than PM 2.5 and eating into your lungs, heart and brain. Nanoparticle pollution:● Nanoparticles have dimensions typically ranging from 1…