One Flashcards
The technique that enables a light field to be recorded and later reconstructed when the original light field is no longer present is called?
Holography
An apparatus containing a movable or driven mirror, used to reflect sunlight in a fixed direction is called?
Heliostat
What is the name of Israel’s largest solar power project, currently under construction?
Ashalim Project
Israel’s largest solar power project, Ashalim project, is located in?
Negev desert
The world’s largest solar tower, at 250 m, is being constructed in?
The Ashalim Solar Power Project, Negev desert, Israel.
The Ashalim Solar Power Project in Israel will generate a power of?
310 MW
The method used by the Ashalim Solar Power Project in Israel to generate power is?
Solar Thermal Method
The method where mirrors focus Sun’s rays to heat the boiler creating steam to spin the turbine and generate electricity is called?
Solar Thermal Method
The Ashalim Project will help Israel achieve its goal of generating ______% of its electricity from renewable sources by ______.
10%, 2020
Intermediaries between planets and full-fledged stars are called?
Brown Dwarfs
The mass of a brown dwarf is less than that of a planet. True or false?
False
The mass of a brown dwarf is too small for ________ to take place.
Nuclear fusion of Hydrogen to Helium.
A new Brown drawf has been discovered in which constellation?
Pisces
Name the world’s largest nuclear and particle physics lab.
European Organization for Nuclear Research. (CERN)
CERN is based in?
Geneva
CERN has ____ member states, ____ associate member states and ____ observers.
22, 4, 7
Name the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator.
Large Hadron Collider
Name the general purpose detector used at the LHC to study the standard model including the Higgs Boson.
Compact Muon Solenoid(CMS)
Name the experiment used for research in the physics of particles at an infinitely small scale.
ALICE - A Large Ion Collider Experiment
India was inducted as an observer in CERN in?
2004
India became an associate member of CERN in?
2016
India and CERN signed a cooperation agreement in?
1991
Name the institute which started India’s involvement with CERN.
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai in 1960s.
Name the Indian institute which built accelerator components for the CERN.
Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology
In the field of large scale computing, India has designed, developed and deployed software for the?
Worldwide Large Hadron Collider Grid(WLCG)
Which country has developed a floating LNG plant?
China
What is the range of power generation capacity of the floating LNG plant?
10-800 MW
Natural Gas is converted into a liquid by cooling it to?
-162℃
Name the Aurangabad based startup which developed India’s first biometric blood bank.
Strides Software Solutions
Innovative tiolets which reuse waste water to create biogas to generate power were developed in Kerala by?
Eram Scientific
Name the two missions announced by NASA to explore asteroids.
Lucy and Psyche
Lucy is scheduled to be launched in which year?
2021
Which asteroids is the NASA mission Lucy going to explore?
Jupiter’s Trojan Asteroids
Nasa’s mission Psyche is scheduled to be launched in which year?
2023
Name the asteroid which the Nasa mission Psyche is going to explore.
16 Psyche Asteroid
Nasa mission Lucy will help gain more info about?
The Earth’s core and the formation and evolution of planets.
What is the composition of the asteroid 16 Psyche?
Iron and Nickel
The world’s highest altitude gravitational wave telescope is being constructed by?
China
The world’s highest altitude gravitational wave telescope is being constructed in?
Ngari territory in Tibet.
The objective if the Ngari Gravitational Wave Telescope is to know more about?
The Big Bang Theory
The Ngari Gravitational Wave Telescope is expected to be operational by?
2021
The process of encoding and decoding information so that it is sent srcurely over a communication network is called?
Cryptography
Quantum cryptography uses?
Quantum physics
Until the 1990s, cryptography was based on?
algorithms
In quantum cryptography, the key is generated using?
Spin of the photon
Which country is ready to offer India quantum cryptography?
Russia
What are the fields in which quantum cryptography can be employed?
Banking and Espionage
Waves associated with the path of the jet stream and the formation of low and high pressure systems are called?
Rossby Waves
Rossby Waves have been detected on?
Sun
The giant, spinning and persistent storm in Jupiter’s atmosphere is called?
The Giant Red Spot
A series of oval shaped storms in Jupiter’s atmosphere is called?
String of pearls
Name the solar system discovered by Chile and Nasa?
Trappist 1
The star, Trappist-1 is found in which constellation?
Aquarius
The area near a star considered to be ideal for the emergence of life is called?
Goldilocks Zone
Which stars make promising targets for extraterrestrial life to be found?
Dim red dwarf stars
The discovery of Trappist 1 solar system makes a record for?
the max number of habitable zone planets found around a single star outside our solar system
A planet that orbits the sun other than the sun is called?
Exoplanet
The Wolf 1061 Solar system is located in which constellation?
Ophiuchus
Exoplanets with a mass 1-10 times that of the Earth are called?
Super Earth
The Super Earth classification refers only to ____ and not to ______ or ______
mass, surface conditions, habitability
The Wolf 1061 C exoplanet is within the ____ zone of a star?
Goldilocks
The Wolf 1061 star is a?
M class Red Dwarf
Name the government project to carry out scientifically validated research on cow derivatives including its urine and their benefits.
SVAROP
Abbreviate SVAROP
Scientific Validation and Research on Panchgavya
What is the concoction of cow dung, cow urine, milk, curd and ghee called?
Panchgavya
Which departments are conducting the government project SVAROP?
Dept. of S&T, Dept. of Biotechnology, CSIR under the Min. of S&T in collaboration with IIT Delhi.
Which molecules are thought to be important building blocks of life?
Negatively charged Carbon Chain Anions.
Carbon Chain Anions have been discovered in which satelite of which planet using which mission?
Titan satellite of Saturn using the Cassini mission
Super flexible and strong artificial silk has been developed by the scientists of which university?
University of Cambridge
The super flexible and strong artificial silk fibres developed in University of Cambridge is spun from?
A soupy material called Hydrogel
What is the composition of Hydrogel?
98% Water and 2 % Silica and Cellulose
An artificial heart has been designed using which technology?
3D printing technology
Artificial heart designed using 3D printing technology uses which material?
Silicone
Name the massive supercluster of galaxies discovered by Indian scientists.
Saraswati
How far is the supercluster Saraswati away from us?
4 billion light-years
What is the width of the Saraswati supercluster?
600 million light-years
Name the first discovered supercluster of galaxies
Shapley, 1989
Name the second supercluster of galaxies discovered.
Sloane Great Wall, 2003
The third discovered supercluster of galaxies is?
Lanaikea, 2014
The Milky Way Galaxy is part of which supercluster of galaxies?
Lanaikea
The largest coherent structures seen in the world are?
Superclusters
What is the width of the Milky Way Galaxy?
150,000 light-years
Where does the Supercluster Saraswati lie in the sky?
Stripe 82 of Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Name the ambitious plan to make a digital 3D map of the universe.
Sloane Digital Sky Survey.
Name the Bioluminescent shark recently discovered by scientists.
Etmopterus Lailae
To which family do Bioluminescent sharks belong?
Lanternshark
Where are Bioluminescent sharks found?
At a depth of 1000 ft in Pacific Ocean
What are the unique features of the Bioluminescent sharks?
Strange head shape and unusally large and bulgy snout
Which chemical compound is also known as Flammable Ice?
Methane Hydrate
Which country has recently been successful in producing natural gas from Methane Hydrate?
China
Which sea is thought to contain promising deposits of Methane Hydrate or Flammable Ice?
South China Sea
CO2 is a more potent GHG than methane. True or False.
False.
The bioactive component of turmeric is called?
Curcumin
It has been found that nanoparticles loaded with curcumin can target and destroy which tumour cells.
Neuroblastoma
Which is the most common cancer in children younger than five years old?
Neuroblastoma
Where are functional cloud physics observatories located in India?
Munnar(Kerala) and Mahabaleshwar (Konkan)
Name the new gene-editing technology used to store a movie in the DNA?
CRISPR or CAS-9
What are the four molecules that DNA is made up of?
Adenine, guanine, thymine and cytosine
Movie has been stored in the DNA of which organism?
the common gut bacteria, coli
Abbreviate CRISPR
Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats
