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• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 07, Oct 2021

Three scientists — Syukuro Manabe (90) and Klaus Hasselmann (89) and Giorgio Parisi (73) — have been awarded the Nobel Prize for physics 2021. This is the first time climate scientists have been awarded the Physics Nobel.Manabe and Hasselmann were awarded for thei

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 06, Oct 2021

U.S. scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian have won the Nobel Medicine Prize for discoveries on receptors for temperature and touch. They will share the Nobel Prize cheque for 10 million Swedish kronor ($1.1 million).The pair’s research is being used t

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 04, Oct 2021

In recent years there is increasing evidence for the failure of artemisinin-based combination therapy for falciparum malaria either alone or with partner drugs.A recent study has described the presence of two mutations responsible for artemisinin resistance in Northern U

• Vaid's ICS, Lucknow
• 02, Oct 2021

Why in News:The experts have recently said that DNA vaccine technique can be applied in making of cancer related vaccine.What is DNA vaccine?A type of vaccine that transfects a specific antigen DNA-coding sequence onto the cells of an immunized species is known as DNA Va

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 01, Oct 2021

Landsat 9 was recently launched by NASA. About Landsat 9:It is an Earth monitoring satellite.It is a joint mission of NASA and the US Geological Survey (USGS).Together with Landsat 8, it will collect images of Earth’s surface. It takes 8 days to capture the w

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 30, Sep 2021

The Punjab Vidhan Sabha committee, constituted to study water table depletion, has recently said that the state will turn into a desert in the next 25 years if the present trend of drawing water from underground aquifers continues.This is a prediction that has been

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 30, Sep 2021

A study was recently published by Researchers on the impact of Climate Change on children born today.The study is based on data from the Inter-sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP).How was the study carried out?The ISIMIP data were used alongside country

• Vaid's ICS, Lucknow
• 29, Sep 2021

Why in  News?Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), the premier research organization of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), has evolved a design for the first PPP Research Reactor for production of Nuclear MedicinesWhat  is Nuclear Medicines?Nuclear medi

• Vaid's ICS, Lucknow
• 28, Sep 2021

Why in news?Early-stage findings of Chang’e-5 probe, which use geological mapping to link ‘exotic’ fragments in the collected samples to features near the landing site, were recently presented by China.Background:Chinese spacecraft carrying rocks and soil

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 04, Sep 2021

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