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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - January 2017

Jan 2017

Dec 17, 2017

Facebook Rolls out 'Snooze'

Facebook has rolled out ‘Snooze’ feature in News Feed that will give its over two billion users option to temporarily unfollow a person, Page or group for 30 days.
The ‘Snooze’ feature is being seen as a better way of managing a user`s News Feed while taking a break from a chatty person, group or page.

Dec 15, 2017

Solar System Just Like Ours Discovered

NASA's big Kepler discovery has revealed an eighth planet orbiting the star Kepler-90.
The discovery was made by applying artificial intelligence to data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope.
The planet Kepler-90i demonstrates for the first time that other stars can host planetary systems as populous as our own solar system.
Sitting around a Sun-like star 2,545 light years away in the constellation Draco, Kepler-90i – like Earth – is also the third rock from its sun.

Dec 12, 2017

Diamond Turned into Graphite Using X- Ray

Scientists have, for the first time, turned diamond into graphite using ultra-short flashes of an X-Ray laser. It is a decisive step forward in understanding the fundamental behaviour of solids when they absorb energetic radiation.

Dec 11, 2017

First-ever breathalyser test for drugs developed

Drug tests could soon be carried out in the same way as those for alcohol: with a simple breathalyser sample. Swedish scientists have developed a new technology that detects tiny quantities of drugs in a person’s breath. The team from the University of Gothenburg found they could successfully detect whether someone had taken methadone based solely on a breath sample.

Dec 06, 2017

Surface-to-Air Missile Akash Test-Fired

India successfully test-fired its supersonic surface-to-air missile Akash with indigenous radio frequency seeker from a test range in Odisha. The indigenous missile targeting a UAV ‘Banshee’ was fired from the launch complex-III of the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur. The supersonic missile is the first surface-to-air missile with indigenous seeker to be test-fired and is being inducted into the army. Akash has a strike range of about 25 km and carries a 55 kg fragmentation warhead that is triggered by proximity fuse.

Record Breaking 9-Hour Rainbow in Taiwan

A record breaking 9-hour rainbow appeared in the Taiwanese capital. The rainbow lasted from 6:57 am until 3:55 pm- eight hours and 58 minutes. It would shatter the previous record set in Yorkshire, England, which was recorded as lasting 6 hours.

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