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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - January 2019

Jan 2019

Dec 07, 2021

Yutu - 2 Spotted a Cube - Shaped Mystery Hut

Yutu – 2 is a Chinese lunar rover that was launched to the moon in Chang'e 4 mission. It was launched in 2018 and it landed on the moon in 2019.
Recently, the rover spotted a cube – shaped mystery hut on the far side of the moon.
A likely explanation for the object is that it can be a larger boulder that was excavated by an impact event.

Dec 05, 2021

Pradip Shah is New NARCL Chairman

Pradip Shah, founder of IndAsia Fund Advisors, was appointed Chairman of National Asset Reconstruction Company (NARCL), while Aditya Birla Asset Reconstruction Company Managing Director Sanjay Jain became the chief executive of India Debt Resolution Company (IDRCL).
Diwakar Gupta, former managing director of State Bank of India was selected as Chairman of IDRCL.
In May, Padmakumar Nair, chief general manager of SBI, was appointed as the MD of NARCL.

Dec 03, 2021

TESS Discovers a Planet the Size of Mars

Astronomers discovered an ultra-short-period planet (USP) that is also super light. The planet is named GJ 367 b, and it orbits its star in just eight hours. The planet is about the size of Mars, and half as massive as the Earth, making it one of the lightest planets discovered to date.
Orbiting a nearby star that is 31 light years from our own sun, GJ 367 b is close enough that researchers could pin down properties of the planet that were not possible with previously detected USPs.
The new planet was discovered by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an MIT-led mission, of which Ricker is principal investigator. TESS monitors the sky for changes in brightness of the nearest stars. Scientists look through TESS data for transits or periodic dips in starlight that indicate a planet is crossing and briefly blocking a star's light.

Dec 02, 2021

LinkedIn Now Available in Hindi

LinkedIn marked a new milestone with the launch of Hindi, the first Indian regional language on the professional network.
This would provide greater access to professional and networking opportunities to Hindi speakers in India and around the world.
LinkedIn now supports 25 languages globally.
A part of the Phase 1 roll-out of LinkedIn in Hindi, members would be able to access their feed, profile, jobs, messaging, and create content in Hindi on desktop, and on their Android and iOS phones.

NASA Aims to Replace ISS with One or more Commercial Space Station by 2030

The US space agency is planning to replace the International Space Station (ISS) with one or more commercial space stations by 2030.
NASA's auditing body, the Office of Audits, produced a report detailing the agency's commitment to replace the orbiting lab with commercial space stations.
Astronauts have lived and worked onboard the ISS orbiting roughly 250 miles above the Earth's surface for more than 20 years.

Dec 01, 2021

Researchers Create Self-Replicating Living Robots

Professor Joshua Bongard, a computer scientist and robotics expert at the University of Vermont, and his colleagues from Tufts University and Harvard University's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, built the first living robots (Xenobots, assembled from cells of a frog species called Xenopus laevis) in 2020, discovered that these computer-designed and hand-assembled organisms can swim out into their tiny dish, find single cells, gather hundreds of them together, and assemble 'baby' Xenobots inside their Pac-Man-shaped 'mouth' — that, a few days later, become new Xenobots that look and move just like themselves; and then these new Xenobots can go out, find cells, and build copies of themselves.

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