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Arya Rajagopal, She is daughter of petrol pump attendant Rajagopal from India, She has secured admission in IIT Kanpur for PG in Chemical engineering (Most Prestigious Indian Institute for Science & Technology ) . Rajagopal has been working in the pump for 20 years, slowly and surely fuelling his daughter's dream. Daughter studied hard as gift to father

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NASA will launch its first spacecraft Lucy on an Atlas V rocket to study Jupiter's Trojan asteroids to collect insights into the solar system's formation. The mission is named as ‘Lucy’ after an ancient fossil that provided insights into the evolution of human species. Mission - To investigate the group of rocky bodies circling the Sun in two swarms, one preceding Jupiter in its orbital path and the other trailing behind Jupiter. After receiving boosts from Earth's gravity, Lucy will embark on a 12-year journey to 8 different asteroids. Among the 8 asteroids, one asteroid is in the Main Belt between Mars and Jupiter and then 7 Trojan Asteroids. Lucy will offer new insights into the history of the solar system, including how all of the planets came to be and why they are aligned in their current configuration. Working - Lucy will fly by its targets within 400 kms of their surfaces. It will use its onboard instruments and large antenna to investigate their geology, including composition, mass, density and volume. It will be the first solar-powered to venture this far from the Sun, and will observe more asteroids than any other spacecraft before it.

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New on the Resume : Vaccination Status

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Chinese BRI Infrastructure Project Around the Globe

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Story of herbicide-tolerant (HT) Cotton

The story: India has not permitted many varieties of genetically modified (GM) crops that farmers have vociferously demanded. But the illegal cultivation of Herbicide Tolerant (HT) Bt cotton saw a jump and the sale of illegal seed packets went from 30 lakh in 2020 to 75 lakh in 2021. That raises serious concerns for the government.

Bt Cotton: It is the only transgenic crop that has been approved by the Centre for commercial cultivation in India. It has been genetically modified (GM) to produce an insecticide to combat the cotton bollworm, a common pest.

Herbicide Tolerant Bt (HTBt) Cotton: The HTBt cotton variant adds another layer of modification, making the plant resistant to the herbicide glyphosate, but has not been approved by Indian regulators. The reason is glyphosate has certain carcinogenic effects, and the unchecked spread of herbicide resistance to nearby plants through pollination, creating a variety of superweeds, is possible.

Why farmers want it: There is a shortage of the labor needed to do at least two rounds of weeding for Bt cotton. With HTBt, simply one round of glyphosate spraying is needed with no weeding. It saves Rs. 7,000 to Rs. 8,000 per acre for farmers. Scientists are in favor of this crop, and even the World Health Organization (WHO) has said it does not cause cancer, but the government has withheld approval. {The unwanted plants that grow in-between crops are called weeds, and their removal is called weeding. It is important in agriculture because weeds are competitive plants as they reduce the useful crop yield by acquiring space, fertilizers, and nutrients from the soil}

Legal market: Being not approved by the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC), an illegal sale takes place in Indian markets. Farmers are at risk with such illegal cotton seed sales as there is no accountability of the quality of seed, it pollutes the environment, the industry is losing legitimate seed sales and the government also loses revenue in terms of tax collection. It will not only decimate small cotton seed companies but also threatens the entire legal cotton seed market in India.

GEAC (Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee): The Committee functions under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC). It is responsible for the appraisal of activities involving large-scale use of hazardous microorganisms and recombinants in research and industrial production from the environmental angle. The committee is responsible for the appraisal of proposals relating to the release of genetically engineered (GE) organisms and products into the environment including experimental field trials. It is chaired by the Special Secretary/Additional Secretary of MoEF&CC and co-chaired by a representative from the Department of Biotechnology (DBT).

#genetics #bioengineering #india #crops

Quiz Time

La Palma island, which witnessed a volcanic eruption, comes under the administration of which nation?

(a) UAE (b) Portugal

#lapalmaeruption volcanoes quiz tavix climatechange

Environment Ecology and Climate change - Burden of Climate Change on children

A new study found that children born today will be hit much harder by extreme climate events than today’s adults. A child born in 2021 is likely to experience on average twice as many wildfires, 2 to 3 times more droughts, 3 times more river floods and crop failures, and 7 times more heatwaves compared to today’s adult. Data - The study is based on data from the Intersectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP). This is a community-driven climate- impacts modeling initiative that assesses the differential impacts of climate change. ISIMIP data were used alongside country-scale, life-expectancy data, population data, andtemperature trajectories from the IPCC. The study said that the climate burden from our childrens’ shoulders could be reduced on average by 24% globally by Limiting warming to 5 degrees Celsius, Phasing out fossil fuel use, and Increase climate protection from current emission reduction pledges.

#climate news #chimate #children #covid-19 impact #climate action

End of Superb era of world politics, world most powerful political leader & really create a true vacuum in the political landscape of Europe. A predictable & steady leader, who plays a vital role in EU politics especially in the tough time of the 2008 financial crisis followed by the migrant crisis of Arab spring, Brexit & most important Covid pandemic. She also handles the European debt crisis of 2011, that's why she is called as "Chancellor of Europe"

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Science & Technology Concept of Bio-Hacking: The truth beyond reality

A new type of cyberattack on DNA synthesis can trick scientists into creating dangerous viruses and toxins.

Researchers at the Israel-based Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, in a study titled, ‘Cyberbiosecurity: Remote DNA Injection Threat in Synthetic Biology’, highlighted the potential dangers of this biohacking techniques.

Hackers do not need to be physically present in order to access any dangerous substance. They can dupe scientists into producing toxins or viruses by cyberattacks. The possible procurement of DNA for malicious purposes by hackers highlights the need for greater cyber-biosecurity.

A cybercriminal can target a scientist’s computer and replace all or parts of sub-strings in DNA sequencing. By employing DNA obfuscation, the attacker can circumvent the protocols where the synthetic gene provider will not detect the malicious DNA.

Following which, the sequencing report will show the DNA as error-free, and even if scientists seek additional details, malware will ensure that the results falsely reflect the original DNA sequence that they intended to order.

An obfuscated DNA may then not be detected by software implementing the screening guidelines and the order was moved to production.

This is due to weak screening guidelines. When DNA orders are made to synthetic gene providers, synthesis providers check each requested sequence across databases of problematic sequences before order fulfillment, as per the 2010 US Health and Human Services guidelines.

There are no comprehensive databases of pathogenic sequences, and the guidelines, unenforced outside of US National Institutes of Health (NIH) grantees are outdated. Without comprehensive penetration testing of the screening frameworks, some pathogenic sequences will fall through the oversight cracks.

Cyber dangers are spilling over to the physical space, blurring the separation between the digital world and the real world, especially with increasing levels of automation in the biological labs.

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Solar Storm and Internet

A study found that solar storms could cause disruption of the internet, damage submarine cables, and communication satellites.

What is it? A solar storm is an ejection of highly magnetized particles from the sun. Previous studies showed there was a 1.6 to 2% chance of an extreme space weather event happening within the next decade. Impacts of the solar storms will include longer submarine cables being susceptible to higher risks. At ground level, solar storm-induced geomagnetic variations can cause harm by inducing large currents in networks that can conduct electricity. Although fiber-optic internet cables are themselves not conductors, their electronic components can be rendered useless by very strong storms. The countries in the lower latitudes are at a much lower risk. Also, compared to the US, India is less vulnerable. To protect, a ‘shutdown strategy’ that can help minimize the connectivity loss during and after a solar storm impact is needed.

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Noble Prize Quiz

THE NOBEL PRIZE 2020

1. Which one of the prize categories - physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, peace and economic sciences - were not originally listed in Alfred Nobel’s will?

A. Literature B. Peace C. Economic Sciences

2. One half of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded for the discovery of a black hole in our galaxy. What is the name of our galaxy?

A. The Andromeda B. The Milky Way C. The Triangulum

3. How big would our planet Earth be if it was as compact as a black hole?

A. 9 mm in diameter B. 9 m in diameter C. 9 km in diameter

4. The 2020 Chemistry Laureates discovered that a little organism had a clever way of fighting viruses using genetic scissors. Which organism?

A. A bacteria B. A parasite C. A prion

5. The only limit to how the genetic scissors can be used is our imagination. But there are also risks that the technology could be misused. What is forbidden?

A: Changes to the human genome

B. Changes to the human genome that can be inherited by following generations

C. Changes to living organisms

#technology #techcrunch #techlover #nobel prize #tavix

Why does Water expands when it gets freeze ?

#science #physics #water vapour #tavix #water gets expand when it get freeze

In India , google moves to high court against the CCI report which put a serious allegations about adapting anticompetitive , unfair means for SMEs , wrong trade practises

#google #unfair #badtrade #wrong practises #google play play store apk #tavix