Science Current Affairs Quiz - August 2016

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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 _________ ?

European Space Agency
South Korea
China
UK
None of These


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. ?

UK
Russia
USA
France
Spain


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 ?

NPL
GAIL
HBCSE
BARC
None of These


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 ?

Aggregate Ultra Super Critical
Advanced Ultra Super Clone
Advanced Ultra Subdue Critical
Advanced Urban Super Critical
Advanced Ultra Super Critical


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 ?

Japanese
Vietnamese
Chinese
Russian
None of These


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. ?

Chinese
Japanese
Vietnamese
Cambodian
None of These


7. ISRO inaugurated a 'C Band Polarimetric Doppler Weather Radar' at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre Thiruvananthapuram (__________) ?

Karnataka
Kerala
Mizoram
Meghalaya
None of These


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 ?

Bengaluru
Delhi
Ahmedabad
Lucknow
None of These


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 ?

Intel
Microsoft
TCS
Google
None of These


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. ?

Neptune
Mars
Saturn
Jupiter
None of These


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 ?

Delhi
Mumbai
Nagpur
Pune
None of These


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 ?

UK
USA
Poland
Russia
None of These


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. ?

Odisha
Jharkhand
Sikkim
Chhattisgarh
West Bengal


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. ?

Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation
Light amplification by stimulated emulsion of radicalisation
Light amplification by stimulated emmigrant radiation
Light amplification by sophisticated emission of radiation
None of These


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 ?

USA
New Zealand
Australia
England
None of These


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