Science and Technology Current Affairs Quiz - April 2014

1. Which countries Scientists have built a modified yeast Synthetic chromosome Named SYN111 from scratch, to make the world's first synthetic yeast genome ?

2. Which new Cyber Security Breach was recently discovered in Open SSL Software (Secure Socket Layer) that could Potentially Affect security of Data of Millions of Internet Users ?

3. Which Indian student of the IIT, Delhi, has recently developed a mobile phone-size haemoglobin metre dubbed the TrueHb Hemometer - the first case of an innovation from the institute's biomedical engineering department actually getting productized ?

4. Which Indian Digital TV has launched 'Pocket TV', a mobile app that enables customers to watch their favorite TV programs while on the move ?

5. Which Israeli Company unveiled its battery charging prototype that uses nanotechnology to charge a smartphone in 30 seconds ?

6. ESA's Sentinel-1A satellite was Launched from French Guiana for Observing Climate Change in Europe, ESA stands for ___ ?

7. ISRO has recently decommissioned the Communication Satellite after it completed ten and half years in orbit as it had stopped working on March 29, 2014, what is the name of the Satellite ?

8. What is the name of second navigation satellite among the seven satellites that will eventually constitute the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) launched by ISRO ?

9. Which NASA's Moon Probe has been Reportedly Crashed Into Moon Lunar Surface ?

10.Which contries Scientists have recently successfully flown a radio-controlled airplane running purely on fuel derived from sea water ?

11. What is the name of solar Energy Operated Plane which will circumnavigate the Earth in 2015 has been demonstrated in Switzerland ?

12. Which USA Based Company has started its Stem Cell Bank Service in India ?