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• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 13, Jan 2022

Reference News:OSIRIS-REx is bringing back an asteroid sample. It will arrive home in 2023, ejecting a capsule full of samples that may help eager scientists decipher the origin of Earth’s water and life.The debris NASA’s asteroid-touching spacecra

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 12, Jan 2022

Reference News:The NISAR mission is scheduled for launch in 2023.ISRO has already delivered the S-band SAR payload to NASA for NISAR [NASA-ISRO SAR] mission.About NISAR:It is optimised for studying hazards and global environmental change and can help manag

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 12, Jan 2022

Reference News:Experts have warned that Shortage of semiconductor chips would continue following the rapid spread of Omicron variant of COVID-19 across the world but the supply disruptions would not worsen in 2022 as the Omicron surge should have a milder impac

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 06, Jan 2022

Reference News:-There are no signs of the global chip shortage easing any time soon, and one of the reasons behind it appears to be getting worse, not better.Industry experts say that a shortage of qualified staff is a growing problem, especially the highly qualified engineer

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 03, Jan 2022

Reference News:China, which is growing its presence in space, has complained to the UN detailing two alleged space incidents involving its Tiangong Space Station and two Starlink satellites from Elon Musk-founded aerospace firm, SpaceX.Why did China approach the UN?

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 03, Jan 2022

Reference News:Scientists have identified the first ”quantum entangled” animal in history-frozen tardigrade, in a recent study.Frozen tardigrade are microscopic multicellular organisms known to tolerate extreme physiochemical conditions through a

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 28, Dec 2021

Reference News:-Just two weeks after its launch, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft has opened its “eye” and returned its first images from space — a major operational milestone for the spacecraft and DART team.DART w

• RAOS, Jaipur
• 22, Dec 2021

India is presently not a major player in the field of technology due to certain challenges and on the other side, there are many celebrated Indian technologists around the world as many of the technology giants choose an India- born techie as their leader.The conversation around Ind

• Vaid's ICS, Lucknow
• 21, Dec 2021

Why in News?Recently ,Jia Rai, a 12-year-old girl from a naval family, swam 36 km to create awareness about autism spectrum disorder.What is Autism?Autism or Autism Spectrum Disorder is a lifelong developmental disability that manifests itself during the first t

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 20, Dec 2021

The Supreme Court has stayed further proceedings of a Commission of Inquiry appointed by the West Bengal Government to look into allegations of snooping using the Pegasus software.What’s the issue?The continued use of spyware Pegasus, which an Israeli company sells to gove