Science-Radioactive Waste Management !!!
Understanding Radioactive Waste […]
2017-07-22T02:03:41+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Science|
Understanding Radioactive Waste […]
2017-07-17T10:38:08+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Science|
Note- Few parts of the article are little scientific in nature and may be little hard to understand, nevertheless for the purpose of simplicity, we have highlighted the important parts and that is what matters from civil service exam standpoint. China has achieved the first successful teleportation of a photon into [...]
2017-07-14T03:28:49+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Science|
The Saraswati supercluster, 4 billion light years away from us, has 43 galaxies, discover Indian astronomers. […]
2017-07-08T09:12:36+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Science|
A diverse range of breakthrough technologies, including “artificial leaves” that turn CO2 into fuel, and a technique that harvests water from air, could soon be playing a role in tackling the world’s most pressing challenges. The top 10 technologies to make this year’s list are:- […]
2017-07-07T16:47:43+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Science|
Does turning smogs into diamonds, sounds crazy enough ? Well, not anymore. Dutch artist Daan Roosegaarde has come up with an innovative plan to tackle Beijing’s air pollution problem – and in doing so, turn a health hazard into a thing of beauty. […]
2017-07-01T10:41:14+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Science|
MANUFACTURING advances often take time to catch on. Only later does their real significance become apparent. The flying shuttle, invented in 1733 by John Kay, a British weaver, allowed the production of wider pieces of cloth. Because its movement could be mechanised, the shuttle later became one of the [...]
2017-06-28T07:00:19+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Science|
Launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 2009, the Kepler telescope, named after the astronomer Johannes Kepler, is a telescope aboard a space observatory in a heliocentric orbit trailing Earth. With a much higher field of vision than the Hubble telescope, the telescope is designed to survey [...]
2017-05-24T18:10:38+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Science|
Three-dimensional transport is the hero our civilisation deserves, and quite frankly, the one it (desperately) needs right now, given the traffic volumes! […]
2017-05-21T13:05:38+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Science|
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s style is to set ambitious targets with impossible-looking deadlines. Perhaps he is inspired by a Gujarati poet who said, “ Nishaan chuk maaf, nahi neechu nishaan ” (missing the target can be forgiven, setting a low target cannot). This challenges his colleagues and staff to accomplish [...]
2017-05-21T00:14:28+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Science|
To measure the level of a civilization’s advancement, the Kardashev scale focuses on the amount of energy that a civilization is able to utilize. Notably, the amount of power available to a civilization is fundamentally linked to how widespread the civilization is (you obviously can’t harness the power of a [...]