Current Affairs-GK Science and Technology December 1-10, 2015
This section of Current Affairs-GK has been compiled with Science and Technology from December 1 to December 10, 2015.
Solve the Questions based on these Current Affairs-GK, at the end of this post.
World’s
first biologically powered chip created
Researchers at Columbia
Engineering have harnessed the molecular machinery of living systems to power
an integrated circuit. They achieved this by integrating a conventional
solid-state complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) integrated circuit
with an artificial lipid bilayer membrane containing adenosine triphosphate
(ATP)-powered ion pumps.
British
astronaut will attempt to run the London Marathon in space
The British astronaut
Tim Peake will attempt to run the London Marathon in space. On 24 April 2016,
he will run 26.2 miles on a treadmill aboard the International Space Station
(ISS), the same day as more than 30,000 runners will take part in the London
Marathon. He will be only the second Briton in space after Helen Sharman in
1991. He will be the first Briton on board the ISS. Earlier, NASA astronaut
Sunita Williams ran the Boston Marathon on board the ISS in 2007.
GAIL
launched geo-portal Bhuvan-GAIL Portal
GAIL (India) Limited
in collaboration with National Remote Sensing Centre, a unit of Indian Space
Research Organization (ISRO), has launched a surveillance geo-portal –
‘Bhuvan-GAIL Portal’. The portal will utilise space technology to monitor GAIL pipelines.
GAIL (India) Ltd. is presently monitoring its 13,000 km of pipeline network via
helicopter surveys. It is also planning alternative methods such as advanced
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) to monitor pipelines.
Himachal
Pradesh launched Rotavirus vaccination project
Himachal Pradesh has
become the first Indian state to launch Rotavirus vaccination project. This
vaccination programme will help to control the child mortality rate (under 5
years of age) due to diarrhoea. The rotavirus vaccines are administered orally
to infants in three dose course at ages of 6, 10 and 14 weeks and are part of
Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP). The project was launched in Kangra
district. It will soon be launched in Vellore (Tamil Nadu) and Pune (Maharashtra).
Uttar
Pradesh hosted first International Bird Festival
To promote Uttar
Pradesh as an international bird watching destination, the state government is
hosting the first International Bird Festival at the National Chambal Sanctuary
(NCS), Agra from December 4 to December 6. Read in Detail
Government
introduced Atomic Energy (Amendment) Bill, 2015
Union Government has
introduced Atomic Energy (Amendment) Bill, 2015 to facilitate and fast track
setting up of new nuclear projects in the country. Bill was introduced by Union
Minister of State (MoS) for Atomic Energy and Space Dr Jitendra Singh. It will
be amendment to the Atomic Energy Act, 1962.
India's
Astrosat has beaten NASA: TIFR
Tata Institute of
Fundamental Research’s scientists have opined that Astrosat’s (first space
observatory of India) Large Area Xenon Proportional Counters (LAXPC) has been
successful in generation of good data, which when compared with the other
similar instruments is better by a factor of 5.
LAXPC instrument created
by TIFR Professor JS Yadav, is best suited for explorations of extreme
condition and it has scored better than NASA’s similar mission known as Rossi
X-ray Timing Explorer /Proportional Counter Array (RXTE/PCA).
Three units of
Astrosat’s LAXPC are located over an area of 8,000 cm square and have aggregate
mass of 414 kg.
India
International Science Festival 2015
The first ever India
International Science Festival (IISF) was inaugurated by Minister for Science
and Technology Harsh Vardhan at IIT Delhi. Around 3,000 young scientists are
going to participate in India International Science Festival 2015, which will
feature National Level Exhibition & Project Competition (NLEPC), Science
Film Festival, Techno-Industrial Expo and Young Scientists' Conference.
Questions:
Name the Astronaut
who will attempt to run London Marathon in Space?
Recently GAIL has launched
a geo-portal to monitor its pipelines, name of that portal?
Recently which Indian
state has become the first state to launch Rotavirus vaccination project?
First India
International Science Festival (IISF) 2015 held at which city?
