OSIRIS-REx Origins: OSIRIS-REx Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security- Regolith Explorer To buy our online courses:  Click Here The mission ● NASA’s most ambitious sample collection program left Cape Canaveral in Florida on Sep 8th, 2016. Headed for an asteroid called Bennu ● The mission was to Collect 60 grams of pristine regolith samples (a layer […]

2-DG Inhibits SARS-COV-2 Growth and Cyto-Pathic Effect: 2 DEOXY-D-GLUCOSE   2-DG released The first batch of the indigenously developed anti-Covid drug, 2-Deoxy-D-Glucose oral powder or ‘2-DG’ released by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Monday (May 17). Developed by the Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS), New Delhi, […]

New Shrew like mammal discovered: New species of mammal belonging to the shrew family discovered by Indian scientists of the Zoological Survey of India from the Andaman Islands. Species named Crocidura Narcondamica. Two individuals (a male and a female) were captured from the same location using the pitfall method. Preserved in 70% molecular grade ethanol […]

‘Black’ and ‘white’ in the greys of pandemic: Recovering from Covid-19 may not be the end of sufferings for all infected people. The use of steroids in treatment and weak body immunity may result in a life-threatening disease which can rapidly spread in the body. This is ‘black fungus’ or mucormycosis, a rare but serious […]

Arab Israel Conflict: Q1. Who are the Jewish people? Ans. Jews are an ethnic group that originally believed in the religion of Judaism. Their origin dates back to the 2nd millennium BCE in the West Asian Levant region. They trace their ancestry to a group of Iron Age Semitic-speaking (an Afro-Asiatic family of language) tribes […]