1. India successfully test fired its futuristic Scramjet Rocket Engine using oxygen from atmosphere that could cut cost of the launches several fold and help in Indian Space Research Organisations bid to design advanced air breathing engines. India is fourth country to demonstrate flight testing of Scramjet Engine after the US, Russia and _________ ?
2. A team of __________ researchers decoded brain activity patterns of word meanings within sentences using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure human brain activation. Researchers can now predict 70% brain activity patterns and it may help treat persons with brain injury and stroke patients to communicate better. ?
3. _________ has developed a simple and cost effective kit for onsite determination of Cr(VI) that provides much needed solution to measure level of Chromium contamination in water ?
4. Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CEEA) approved development of ______________ (AUSC) technology for thermal power plants, with a grant of 900 crore rupees for over 3 years for an Research ?
5. ___________ scientists (Xiamen University and Peking University ) discovered a small molecule named XMU-MP-1 that can regenerate tissues and help eliminate transplants of some organs such as liver, intestines and skin. It was found that it has ability to inhibit the activity of two enzymes MST1 and MST2, central component of this pathway which normally prevent cells from proliferating ?
6. ________ scientists performed worlds first genetic editing trial on humans in an attempt to find a cure for lung cancer, by injecting cells that have been modified using the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technique into the patients. CRISPR short form of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats. ?
7. ISRO inaugurated a 'C Band Polarimetric Doppler Weather Radar' at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre Thiruvananthapuram (__________) ?
8. Indian researchers' team at IISc ________ found that endosulfan, an organochlorine pesticide, causes DNA damages in animals. They have revealed that mice and rats exposed to endosulfan suffer from DNA damage and genomic instability, and impaired DNA damage response ?
9. ________ unveiled Project Alloy, a device that creates merged reality. Project Alloy is a headset that uses RealSense technology to enable people to use their hands to interact with elements of the virtual world without using cables ?
10. NASAs solar-powered Juno spacecraft successfully executed its first flyby of ___________, just 4,200 kilometres above clouds of our solar systems biggest planet. It traveled spped of 208,000 kilometres per hour. ?
11. Researchers from ________ based National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS) successfully isolated cancer stem cells that cause skin cancer. They demonstrated that Andrographolide isolated and purified from Andrographis paniculata (a herb) found in India is effective in inhibiting tumour growth both in skin cancer and lung metastasis in mice ?
12. Researchers from ___________ developed a mechanism to convert greenhouse gas (GHG) Carbon dioxide (CO2) into carbon monoxide (CO) that can be recycled into usable fuel. Mechanism was developed by Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and University of Illinois at Chicago ?
13. Scientists discovered Gymnothorax indicus (proposed name Indian unpatterened moray), a new species of eel (a snake-like fish) in northern Bay of Bengal region along ________ coast. ?
14. Scientists for first time developed LASER (__________) from fluorescent jellyfish proteins that were grown in bacteria. It is a breakthrough in so-called polariton lasers operating at room temperature. ?
15. Worlds longest aircraft Airlander 10 made its first flight in Cardington in ____________, filled with helium gas. It is 92-metre-long and 43.5m wide and can fly at up to 4,880 metres and reach speeds of 148 kilometres per hour ?