WINSON COMPETITIVE GUIDE
• According to the scientists and wildlife
conservationists, the National Waterways (NW) project
possesses serious environmental threat to Gangetic
river dolphins.
• Researchers from Pune (Maharashtra) have produced
high-quality carbon from sugarcane waste within
minutes by using a low power microwave system.
• Scientists from Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT) US have developed a novel
spectroscopic technique to find signs of present or
former extraterrestrial life on the Mars.
• Scientists in the United States including those of
Indian origin have successfully grown threedimensional (3D) lungs in the lab, using stem cells.
• The National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA), a US space agency has launched OSIRIS-REx
spacecraft to collect samples from an asteroid 101955
Bennu and return to Earth.
• China has claimed that it has successfully developed
and tested a radar system that uses quantum
entanglement to beat the stealth technology of modern
military aircrafts.
• The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has
successfully launched advanced weather satellite
INSAT-3DR.
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