Japan and JAXA, the country’s space administration, have spent decades trying to make it possible to beam solar energy from space. In 2015, the nation made a breakthrough when JAXA scientists successfully beamed 1.8 kilowatts of power, enough energy to power an electric ket…
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The universe began with a Bang, not a Bounce, new studies find.
How did the universe start? Did we begin with a big bang, or was there a bounce? Might the cosmos evolve in a cycle of expansion and collapse, over and over for all eternity? Now, in two papers, researchers have poked holes in different models of a so-called bouncing univer…
Quantum Chemistry happening inside your eyes protects against vision loss.
Every color, every flash, every sunray exacts a toll on the light-sensitive tissues at the back of our eyes, producing toxic materials that risk damaging the very cells that allow us to see. Thankfully, the pigment responsible for darkening our hair, skin, and eyes moonlight…
The US now has 150 of the TOP500 supercomputers in the world.
The US has edged past China when it comes to being home to the world's fastest supercomputers. The number of machines in the U.S. is now 150, up from 126 last year, while the number of supercomputers from China fell from 162 to 134, Techspot reported. Supercomputers are …
Branson’s rocket dream ends after mission failure.
Sir Richard Branson's rocket company Virgin Orbit has shut down, just months after a major mission failure. It comes weeks after the firm set up to launch satellites paused operations to try and boost its finances. It had been selling off items it owns in a bid to survive…
World's most efficient aero-engine, the Rolls-Royce UltraFan, completes first test.
Rolls-Royce has announced the first test of its new "green" UltraFan jet engine at their test facility in Derby, United Kingdom. The company claims the new engine is the quietest and most fuel-efficient engine ever, delivering around 10% better fuel efficiency tha…
Giant petroglyph carving found hidden under moss in Sweden.
Current Affairs (CA) Daily Updates5/25/2023 11:11:00 AMSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, SOCIAL & CULTURAL
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ARCHAEOLOGISTS FROM THE FOUNDATION FOR DOCUMENTATION OF BOHUSLÄN’S ROCK CARVINGS HAVE DISCOVERED A GIANT PETROGLYPH CARVING IN THE SWEDISH PROVINCE OF BOHUSLÄN. A petroglyph is an image created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading as …
Archaeologists excavate Kom El-Dikka in Alexandria.
Current Affairs (CA) Daily Updates5/25/2023 10:54:00 AMSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, SOCIAL & CULTURAL
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A POLISH-EGYPTIAN TEAM OF ARCHAEOLOGISTS HAVE RECOMMENCED EXCAVATIONS AT KOM EL-DIKKA IN ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT. Alexandria (as the new capital of Egypt) was founded by its namesake – Alexander the Great in 332 BC, who drove the Persians from Egypt. The Ptolemaic dynasty, which wa…
Archaeologists discover cave paintings using drones.
Current Affairs (CA) Daily Updates5/25/2023 10:42:00 AMSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, SOCIAL & CULTURAL
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ARCHAEOLOGISTS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE HAVE DISCOVERED CAVE PAINTINGS IN PENÁGUILA, SPAIN. The team were conducting a drone survey of the Castellet-Barranc del Salt ravine and Port de Penáguila, revealing Neolithic cave paintings from 7,000-years-ago. The survey is pa…
Archaeologists discover lost church in submerged medieval settlement.
Current Affairs (CA) Daily Updates5/25/2023 10:36:00 AMSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, SOCIAL & CULTURAL
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A MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL TEAM OF ARCHAEOLOGISTS HAVE DISCOVERED THE REMAINS OF A CHURCH FROM THE SUBMERGED MEDIEVAL SETTLEMENT OF RUNGHOLT IN THE NORTH FRISIAN WADDEN SEA, GERMANY. Rungholt reportedly sank beneath the waves when a storm tide (known as Grote Mandrenke or Den Sto…
1,000 Year old Pre-Inca Tomb unearthed in Peru.
Current Affairs (CA) Daily Updates5/25/2023 10:28:00 AMSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, SOCIAL & CULTURAL
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Archaeologists excavating at the Macatón cemetery in Huaral, approximately 45 miles northwest of Lima, Peru, have made an exciting discovery. The National Major University of San Marcos announced on May 15th that they have uncovered a large Pre-Inca empire tomb during their…
Chinese hackers attacked Kenyan government as debt strains grew.
Chinese hackers targeted Kenya's government in a widespread, years-long series of digital intrusions against key ministries and state institutions, according to three sources, cybersecurity research reports and Reuters' own analysis of technical data related to the …
Meta loses millions as made to sell Giphy to Shutterstock.
Meta has sold animated-gif search engine Giphy to Shutterstock for $53m (£42m), despite paying $400m for it just three years ago. Last year, the UK's competition watchdog reissued an order to Meta to sell Giphy, on competition grounds. Giphy is the main supplier of animat…
Satellites reveal widespread decline in global lake water storage.
More than 50 percent of the largest lakes in the world are losing water, according to a groundbreaking new assessment published today in Science. The key culprits are not surprising: warming climate and unsustainable human consumption. But lead author Fangfang Yao, a CIRES v…
G7 calls for developing global technical standards for AI.
Leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) nations on Saturday called for the development and adoption of technical standards to keep artificial intelligence (AI) “trustworthy”, saying governance of the technology has not kept pace with its growth. While the G7 leaders, meeting in H…
WhatsApp to allow users to edit messages within 15 minutes.
WhatsApp says it will allow users to edit messages, in a move that will see it match a feature offered by competitors like Telegram and Signal. The firm says messages can be edited for up to 15 minutes after being sent. The instant-messaging service is part of US technology g…
China bans major chip maker Micron from key infrastructure projects.
China says products made by US memory chip giant Micron Technology are a national security risk. The country's cyberspace regulator announced on Sunday that America's biggest maker of memory chips poses "serious network security risks". It means the firm'…
NASA makes new revelation on Sri Lanka’s gravity acceleration.
Current Affairs (CA) Daily Updates5/22/2023 09:30:00 AMSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, SPACE, SRI LANKA
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The lowest gravity on the planet is found at the southern tip of Sri Lanka and parts of the Indian Ocean east of the Maldives. North Canada around the Hudson Bay area is also an area of low gravity. Satellites from Nasa’s GRACE mission (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experimen…
300,000-year-old footprints uncovered in Germany.
Scientists have discovered human footprints thought to be 300,000 years old and the earliest ever found in Germany. Experts believe the perfectly-preserved prints were left by a family of Heidelberg people, a long-extinct species of human. The footprints were discovered in th…
Israeli Archaeologists Find 2,000-year-old Financial Record in Jerusalem.
About 120 years ago, two British archaeologists doing excavations in ancient Jerusalem did not discover the inscription dating to the Early Roman period that the Israel Antiquities Authority unveiled on Wednesday. They left it undiscovered, but the late 19th-century trench …
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