1. A team of international astronomers discovered‚ _________, biggest super galaxy cluster disdovered so far ?
2. American scientists of US National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering successfully tracked human thought by imaging rapidly fluctuating brain activity, using FMRI () ?
3. _____________ Scientists developed first functional pacemaker cells using human pluripotent stem cells that can regulate heart beats with electrical impulses paving way for alternate biological pacemaker therapy. Pluripotent stem cells have potential to differentiate into more than 200 different cell types that make up every tissue and organ in the body ?
4. Harvard University (____________) researchers have built world’s‚ smallest radio receiver, made out of atomic scale defects in pink diamonds ?
5. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched remote sensing satellite ____________ using Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle C36 .
6. Indian private aerospace starup‚ Team Indus‚ partnered with ___________ firm Hakuto‚ to carry its four-wheeled lunar rover to the Moon’s surface. TeamIndus’s 600 kg spacecraft will be launched on ISRO’s PSLV rocket on December 28, 2017. Now, Team Indus’s spacecraft will also carry Hakuto’s 4 kg robotic rover ?
7. Researchers discovered hot atomic _____________ atoms in thermosphere (upper layer of earth’s atmosphere).‚ It changes current understanding of the distribution of hot atomic ______________ and its interaction with other atmospheric constituents ?
8. Researchers from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) discovered that‚ bismuth‚ semi-metal in bulk form becomes a superconductor when temparature is lowered to _________ . It acts as superconductor at temperature three times higher than theoretical prediction. This discovery challenges conventional understanding of superconductivity based on Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) theory ?
9. Researchers from ____________developed first vaccine for Chikungunya fever made from an insect-specific Eilat virus ?
10. _________________ Scientists developed a new low-cost method for producing high-quality nuclear fuel using electricity. It is alternative novel method that forms the basis of powder metallurgy and involves electric pulse sintering under pressure ?
11. Scientist from ____________'s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology for the first time detected traces of ammonia in upper troposphere, lowest atmospheric layer of Earth. Ammonia (NH3) was released into atmosphere as agricultural emission from livestock farming and fertilisation in order of 33 pptv (33 ammonia molecules per trillion air molecules), above Southeast China and North India ?
12. Scientists at Institute for Research in Biomedicine (___________) identified a specific protein called CD36 which is responsible for spreading cancer. CD36 is found in cell membranes of tumour cells and are dependent on fatty acids ?
13. Scientists from India found a huge ‘dead zone’ of an estimated _______ square kilometres in Bay of Bengal, that supports microbial processes that remove vast amount of nitrogen from the ocean.
- Dead Zone is an area in water body that contains little or no oxygen (or they are hypoxic) in bottom and near-bottom water. They occur naturally or can also be induced by human activities.
14. ___________ researchers found that stem cells harvested from pregnant woman’s amniotic fluid can be used to strengthen weak bones. Amniotic fluid is the protective fluid that surrounds baby in the uterus and helps it to develop inside the mother’s womb ?
15. _____________ researchers identified Hafnium carbide (HfC) and Tantalum carbide (TaC) as world’s most heat resistant material. Researchers found that TaC melted at 3,768 degrees Celsius, and HfC melted at 3,958 degrees Celsius ?
16. _______ scientists developed a bacteria-powered battery (bio-battery) on a single sheet of paper, capable of powering disposable electronics (Papertronics).
- Researchers laid ribbon of silver nitrate on a piece of chromatography paper.
- On top, they placed thin layer of wax to create a cathode (positive electrode). On other side , reservoir out of a conductive polymer was made which acts an anode (negative electrode). When paper is folded so that the cathode and anode come into contact, it is powered by the bacterial metabolism.
17. ______________ Scientists (University of Wisconsin-Madison) created a nanoceramic material that can used for safer and cheaper nuclear reactors, made of aluminium oxide nanoceramic coating. It can withstand high temperatures, the harsh effects of radiation and also becomes tougher under radiation. Panel Incuded Indian Scientist Kumar Sridharan ?
18. USA's National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will launch Restore-L Spacecraft in _____________ . It will be able to repair satellites currently in orbit. In this regard, NASA has given $127 million contract to California-based satellite company Space Systems/Loral ?
19. University of Toronto (____________) scientists discovered oldest water sample dating back to about 2 billion years in a Canadian Mine. It is 500 million years more ancient than previous oldest samples ?
20. ________ (WIFEX) 2016-17 inaugurated by Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) at Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) New Delhi. Aim is better understanding of fog life cycle and improve capability in fog prediction ?
21. World Health Organization (WHO) reported that new vaccine for Ebola (Developed in ______________) will be 100% effective. It is now over taken by pharmaceutical giant Merck ?
22. World’s first cloned goat bearing superfine Cashmere wool born in north ____________’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. ?
