trusciencetrutechnology@blogspot.com Volume 2021, Issue No. 3a, Dated: Mar. 16-31, 2021 Time: 02:21:43AM
Professor Dr. Kotcherlakota Lakshmi Narayana,
M.Sc. (Math. Phys.), M.Sc. (Nucl. Phys.), PhD.(AU), Int. Edu & Res. (Sweden 1964-65)
While returning from Sweden, spent a few days in England, Paris, Egypt and etc. countries,
Visited USA about 12 Universities, several National Laboratories and Institutes for four months.
Sept. to December 1988. and in 1989 visited Japan for about
10 days, and South Korea Conf. in Physics for a week in 1989.
[Retd. Prof of Physics; Shivaji University, Kolhapur - 416004].
Residential Address: 17- 11-10, Narasimha Ashram, Official Colony,
Maharanipeta. P. O., Visakhapatnam-530002, A.P. Mobile: 09491902867.
kotcherlakota_l_n@hotmail.com; DOB:23-07-1940, evening 6 PM and 6:01 PM.
lakshminarayana.kotcherlakota@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
One Side of Earth Is Rapidly Getting Colder than the Other, India’s Pixxel To Launch World's Most Advanced Hyper-Spectral Image Satellite, a compound of three gluons that gets exchanged between protons, floating trash barrier (FTB) which deployed in Cooum river in Chennai, UFOs travelling exceeding sound barrier without a sonic boom, Invisible 'ghost stars' may be holding galaxies together in space, the bull's head could point to an ancient cache of dark matter, Mysterious glow in Milky Way's centre could be due to dark matter, A process that was measured was the decay of a meson B (which contained beauty quark) into K-meson (which contains the strange quark) and a muon-antimuon pair, and this was compared with the decay of B into K meson and an ELECTRON_ANTIELECTRON pair and what the LHCb has seen is that the ratio is not ONE but it is approximately 0.846,
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DETAILS
March. 16, 2021:22 hours ago: The research conducted by Cornell University shows interstellar objects (ISOs) passing through the solar system can be directly observed by Earth-based telescopes and potentially explored at close range by spacecraft. The aim of the study was to find additional ISOs and planning missions to intercept or rendezvous with these bodies will greatly benefit from the knowledge of their likely orbits and arrival rates. The detection of 2I/Borisov in 2019 confirmed that ISOs enter our Solar System on a pretty regular basis.
March 16, 2021: 2 hrs ago:
Fig.01 The Indus Civilization.
Excavations and made from sites in Tamil Nadu over the past two years studies of the Indus Valley script and the Tamil-Brahmi script – the precursor of contemporary Tamil – suggest that there may have there might have been an urban, Bronze age civilisation in India’s southern region. The findings also suggest that after the collapse of the Indus civilisation, the remaining members of the civilisation migrated south. In 2019, excavations carried out in the Keezadi site in Tamil Nadu’s Sivagangai district revealed graffiti dating back to 580 BC. The graffiti has been deemed to bear a distinct resemblance to the Indus script.It is considered one of the earliest available scripts in India, dating back 4500 years. After its disappearance, the next major script to emerge and bear ancestry to contemporary languages like Sanskrit, Hindi, Bangla, Tamil.
March. 16, 2021: 3 hrs ago:
Fig.02. The Hindu Priest in Claremore
opened up a meeting open for diversity
Tulsa Hindu Priest Kumar Gurukkal.
As this Hindu priest delivered his invocation before Monday’s city council meeting in Claremore, some guests in attendance were visibly upset. One woman even took a knee and another turned her back. Opposition to this virtual prayer. It’s the first time in the city’s history where a Hindu prayer has opened up a meeting. The city declined our interview at the meeting. But we spoke with city officials recently on Good Morning Oklahoma, where they expressed excitement about the opportunity to show that Claremore is open for diversity.
March. 17, 2021: 5 hours ago: Indian scientists find new 'exotic and strange' state of materials boosting quantum technology. The scientists have shown that in an external electromagnetic field, geometric properties of a crystalline solid with lattices arranged in a one-dimensional periodic manner can display phase transitions, thereby altering its physical properties has been published in the journal 'Physical Review B' recently.
March. 17, 2021: duration 01:00: 7 hrs ago: Iraqi truffle hunters unearth desert harvest. Braving the harsh weather of Iraq's southern desert, as well as left-behind land mines, Zahra Buheir and her family of seven have spent weeks hunting for the seasonal truffles that have provided them with an income for generations.
March. 17, 2021: duration 04:42: 8 hra ago: The new method uses a layering of plaster of paris on the inner surface of the wall, a chemical thermocol seat in the middle of the four-inch reinforced concrete wall and mixing anti-temperature chemicals on the roof. The construction of walls without the use of bricks has produced positive results. Some characteristics of the new method include reduced cost, water-saving, and decreased temperatures. But the buildings built this way have recorded a heat reduction during the summer of 5-6 degrees on the second floor. The temperature was measured on two different days to confirm its effectiveness.
March. 17, 2021:
Fig.03 Potsherds with inscription similar to
Indus Valley.
March. 17, 2021: New findings published in the American Geophysical Union journal now suggest a new theory - that the object is a piece of another planet, that too from a different solar system. Steven Desch, an astrophysicist at Arizona State University, in a press release said that they have “resolved the mystery” of Oumuamua, calling it a chunk of an “exo-Pluto” - essentially a Pluto-like planet in a different solar system. The researchers believe that about half a billion years ago, Oumuamua's parent planet was hit by an object, which sent it hurling towards our solar system. They added that this piece of the planet must have entered our solar system in 1995, which we likely missed. Over time, it lost 95 per cent of its mass and became its current size. The existence of Oumuamua was confirmed in 2017, but it was already spacing away from Earth at really high speeds.
March. 17, 2021:
Fig.04 One side of Earth is rapidly getting colder.
One Side of Earth Is Rapidly Getting Colder Than the Other. Caroline Delbert 55 mins ago. New research shows the Pacific hemisphere is losing heat faster than the African hemisphere. The heat is from Earth’s molten interior, which causes continental drift. Landmass traps more heat than seafloor surface, indicating a hotter Pacific of the past. In a new study, scientists from the University of Oslo say one side of Earth’s interior is losing heat much faster than the other side—and the culprit is practically as old as time. The scientists combined several previous models for things like seafloor age and continental positions during the last 400 million years. Then, the team crunched the numbers for how much heat each grid cell contains over its long life. This paved the way to calculate the rate of cooling overall, where the researchers found the Pacific side has cooled much faster.The Pacific hemisphere has cooled about 50 Kelvin more than the African hemisphere, but the“consistently higher plate velocities of the Pacific hemisphere during the past 400 [million years]” suggest the Pacific was much hotter at a certain moment in time.
March. 18, 2021: 2 hrs ago: Researchers Find a New Superbug Called C auris in India, Say it Could Lead to Next Pandemic. the superbug is a multidrug-resistant organism which is called C auris. During their study, the researchers isolated C. auris from two sites: a salt marsh wetland where virtually no people ever go, and a beach with more human activity.
March. 18, 2021: 2 hrs ago: India’s Pixxel To Launch World's Most Advanced Hyper-Spectral Image Satellite. The Bengaluru-based startup also announced the launch of a new product: hyperspectral imaging (HSI). This technique captures and processes an image at various wavelengths to provide more information on what is imaged; and is remarkable in the sense that it allows us to see what the eye cannot. The company’s hyper-spectral earth-imaging satellites are said to beam down 50x more information by capturing light reflected from earth in far more detail. This will allow it to capture exact chemical signatures and offer far more accurate solutions to agriculture, energy and environment conservation.
March. 18, 2021: Rusty Escandell says he noticed a little splash while taking pictures of surfers in Satellite Beach, Florida, but he didn't know that a huge manta ray had jumped out of the water until he looked at the photos at home.A lucky photographer captured an amazing shot of a giant manta ray that leaped out of the water as he was taking pictures of surfers from a Florida beach. Giant manta rays are the world's largest rays and can grow to a wingspan of up to 29 feet.
March. 18, 2021: 10 hours ago: Researchers mimic photosynthesis, convert CO2 into solar fuel. Chethan Kumar. This process of converting CO2 into solar fuel also generates oxygen from water. Extreme emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), sulfur dioxide (SO2), and nitrogen oxides are the prime reasons for severe pollution and global warming.
March. 18, 2021: 1 hr ago: World's smallest origami BIRD is 20 times smaller than a grain of sand. The world's smallest origami bird — which is just 60 microns wide, or 20 times smaller than a single grain of sand — has been created by researchers from the US. 'We want to have robots that are microscopic but have brains on board,' said paper author and physicist Itai Cohen of New York's Cornell University.
Mar. 18, 2021, 3:35 PM: Some dead stars may harbor enough uranium to set off a thermonuclear bomb. By Adam Mann. A thermonuclear bomb might be ticking deep in the cores of some dead stars. A new theoretical study traces out how certain stellar corpses known as white dwarfs could accumulate a critical mass of uranium that would trigger a massive supernova explosion. The findings could yield insights into the destruction habits of white dwarfs, which are responsible for creating heavy elements like iron and nickel. White dwarf supernovae light up their surroundings with the power of 5 billion Suns, and astronomers have used them as “standard candles” to measure vast distances across the cosmos. But such blasts are still not entirely understood, and the new study could account for certain, anomalously dim observations of this type of supernovae.
March. 19, 2021: 4.7 magnitude earthquake hits Fayzabad in Afghanistan. 7 hours ago. The earthquake occurred at 11:48 pm (IST), with a depth of 110 km.
March. 19, 2021: 6.0-magnitude earthquake strikes off Algerian coast. 18 hours ago. The quake hit 20 km north-east of the city of Bejaia at 1:04 am local time (0004 GMT), at a depth of 10 km, In the aftermath of the 6.0-magnitude quake, two further quakes in the same area, of 5.2 and 4.7 magnitude respectively.
March. 19, 2021: 5 hours ago: However, you’d be surprised to know that globally, apples first originated in Kazakhstan, and spread across the world in the different avatars that we’ve all eaten and loved. The genetic sequencing narrowed down the origin of the domesticated apple from the earlier presumed (and a rather broad area of) central Asia to Kazakhstan, an area west of Tian Shan Mountain.
March. 19, 2021: 15 hours ago:
Fig.05. BRO launches bridge built in Five days.
In just 5 days, BRO launches bridge connecting Shillong and Silchar. Manjeet Negi. After considering all design aspects, it was decided to construct a 230-feet continuous span Bailey Bridge. The BRO then commenced the launching of the brige on March 11 and completed on March 15.
March. 20, 2021: 9 hours ago: Having Planted 11,000 Trees, Indonesian Eco-Warrior Has Turned Barren Hills Green After 24 Years Of Effort. Basit Aijaz. Sadiman, has never let his guard down and has continued his preservation efforts, even making water resources available in the drought-prone mountainous region where he lives.
March. 20, 2021: Scientists have discovered a confounding pattern in nature: Many marine animals are strangely swimming in circles. “Examining high-resolution 3D movements of sharks, sea turtles, penguins, and marine mammals, we report the discovery of circling events where animals consecutively circled more than twice at relatively constant angular speeds,” Narazaki and her coauthors write in their study, which appears in iScience.
March 20, 2021:
Fig.06 Lightning that struck the Aeroplane.
March. 20, 2021: 3 hrs ago: Scientists Find Ancient Leaves Preserved Under a Mile of Ice. The soil studied by Christ and Bierman came from the bottom of an ice core drilled 4,560 feet deep at a place called Camp Century, 800 miles from the North Pole. The core, including 12 feet of soil at its very bottom, was collected in the 1960s.
March. 20, 2021: The discovery contributes to physicists’ understanding of how all the matter in the universe interacts at the smallest levels. Unlike the famous Higgs boson, which was officially discovered in 2012, the odderon isn’t a particle exactly. Instead, it’s the name for a compound of three gluons that gets exchanged between protons (or a proton and its antimatter twin, the antiproton) when they collide violently but aren’t destroyed. Gluons are subatomic particles so named because they “glue” together other particles called quarks; quarks are the tiny things that make up the bigger particles like protons and neutrons that form the atoms we all know and love. Gluons are funny in that they don’t like to be alone; they’re almost always found together. When it’s an even-numbered group of gluons (two, four, etc.), we call it a pomeron. When the number of gluons in the group is odd (three, five, etc.), well, you guessed it: That’s an odderon. The odderon, for mysterious reasons, is very rarely produced, and though hints of it have popped up over the decades, the evidence was never quite strong enough to say it existed for sure. But the generally accepted theory of quantum physics says odderons should exist, so scientists have continued to hunt for them. Royon agrees that the work of studying the odderon is far from over.
March. 20, 2021: The Hindu: AIIMS to study the effect of Gayatri Mantra and Pranayam for a trial on COVID-19 patients. DST has funded a clinical trial at AIIMS Rishikesh, to determine quality of recovery and cure of COVID-19 and ICMR aims to recrit 20 COVID patients Two groups, would be made to make the study. The recruitment for the study has already been started. Dr. Ruchi Das pulmonologist and Associate Professor she has been funded with Rs.3 lakh for conducting this study.
March. 20, 2021: two hrs ago: Tsunami advisory issued in Japan after 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck off northeastern coast of the country. The earthquake hit 0909 GMT (2:39 pm Indian time in waters of Pacific waters off Miyagi region. The quake struck at a depth of 60 km. The Japanese agency issued advisory for tsunami waves of around one metre.
March. 20, 2021: 5 hours ago: 5.7 magnitude earth quake rattles central Mexico on Friday. The quake struck 59 km (37 miles) southeast of San Marcos in Guerrero state at a depth of 19 km, In the resort of Acapulco, located in Guerrero state closer to the epicenter, the tremor was felt more strongly, causing tourists to flee their hotels.
March. 20, 2021: 6 hrs ago: After 40,000 earthquakes in four weeks, a volcano finally erupts in Iceland, long-dormant volcano near Iceland’s capital Reykjavik erupted on Friday (March 19), The eruption occurred near Fagradalsfjall, a mountain on the Reykjanes Peninsula, around 30 km (19 miles) southwest of Reykjavik. This was the first eruption on the peninsula since the 12th century. The initial eruption of the volcano occurred at 2045 GMT and after around four hours, lava covered about one square kilometer or nearly 200 football fields.
March. 20, 2021: The world's largest desert is growing. In the last century, the Sahara Desert expanded by more than 10%. Within the next decade, the Great Green Wall initiative hopes to restore 100 million hectares of land between Senegal in the west and Djibouti in the east, creating a 15-kilometer-wide (9 miles) and 8,000-kilometer-long (5,000 miles) mosaic of trees, vegetation, grasslands and plants. Nine years away from its deadline, there is still a long way to go. So far, 4 million hectares of land has been restored -- just 4% of the overall goal -- though this rises to almost 20 million hectares when counting areas outside of the official Great Green Wall zones. Ethiopia is reported to have restored the most so far, producing 5.5 billion plants and seedlings, and planting more than 150,000 hectares of reforested lands and 700,000 hectares of terraces -- which together make up an area more than five times the size of London.
March. 20, 2021:Duration: 04:56 1 day ago: How Scientists Are Using Fuzziness To Solve the Mystery of Quantum Gravity. Gravitons could bridge the divide between general relativity and quantum mechanics, but how do we detect these hypothetical particles?
March. 20, 2021: Apple this month was granted a patent for an intelligent interior lighting system that can adjust to the environment around it and various use-case scenarios. The patent (via Patently Apple) is titled “System and method for adjustable lighting based on occupant and object identification in a vehicle” and details a scenario where a user drops an object onto the floor and sensors subsequently trigger the interior lighting system to illuminate the area where the object fell.
March. 21, 2021: 17 hrs ago: A Belgium cheese maker and distributor are "out of this world" excited after finding out their cheese has been sent from Belgium all the way to the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Shannon Walker had requested for them to send her cheese for her 210-day journey on the International Space Station. They did, and she loved the cheese so much, she requested a second shipment!
March. 21, 2021: This was the first time in 120 years, that piligram worship had to be suspended at the Lord Venkateswara temple at Tirumala. The temple is nearly 2000 years old. as per the records available with the TTD. Last time the temple was closed down was in the year 1892 with even rituals were suspended the reason for this is unknown todate.
March. 21, 2021: The Hindu report: The target of India's requirement of Helium, is only 70 million cubic metres, and the resrves in India far exceeds this limit. India's Rajamahal volcanic basin, around Bakreswar and nearby Tantloi now in Jharkhand, is the store house of Helium trapped for billions of years, possibly since the very birth of our Earth from the Sun. The village Tantlot is situated next to a stream, with natural hot water and natural gas emnating from it. The stream has about 1.6% of Helium in the eminating gas, a little less than that in Bakreswar and this was around the years 1965-1966. US appearing to cutoff exports of Helium since 2021 and Indian industry stands to lose out heavily. Can it India be self-reliant?
March. 21, 2021: UK security camera captures sonic boom likely caused by meteor. Duration: 00:12 16 hours ago. A meteor likely caused a sonic boom that was felt across South West England today (March 20). Ollie Peart from Dorchester capture the noise on his security camera and described it as a "massive bang".
March. 21, 2021: A 13th century stone edict, found inside the Perur Patteeswarar temple near Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore, describes the creation of a nearby lake and lays down rules for a water-sharing arrangement between upstream and downstream regions along the Noyyal river. Starting as early as 8th century, the Chola kings and farmers in the region masterfully developed an interconnected system of Anaicuts (check dams), canals and natural and manmade lakes to ensure that the river water was managed efficiently. The system mimicked the natural rhythms of the seasonal river flows and was built keeping in mind the contours of the land. Unfortunately, this traditional nature-based solution fell into disuse as the region rapidly urbanised and water management of the area changed hands.
March: 22, 2021:14 hrs ago: Moroccan farmers in an isolated oasis on the Algerian border are bearing the brunt of regional tensions after Algiers expelled them from date groves they have worked for generations. Algeria had allowed some residents of the Moroccan frontier town of Figuig to cross into the date groves of Al-Arja, known to Algerians as the Laaroda oasis.
Msarch. 22, 2021:1 day ago: A magnitude 3.0 earthquake was reported Saturday afternoon at 3:49 p.m. Pacific time in Ontario. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.9 miles.. The earthquake occurred two miles from Rancho Cucamonga, two miles from Eastvale, two miles from Chino and three miles from Jurupa Valley. In the last 10 days, there has been one earthquake of magnitude 3.0 or greater centered nearby.
March. 22, 2021: 15 hours ago: On the occasion of World Water Day on Monday, agreement for 1st river interlinking project to be signed, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the 'Jal Shakti Abhiyan: Catch the Rain' campaign via video conferencing.
March. 22, 2021:2 hours ago: A dad-of-two captured this extraordinary video footage of a METEOR hurtling through the sky - at the same time as a huge sonic boom was heard across four counties. Ian Dryhurst, 42, was in the car with his wife Wendy, and their nine-year-old twin sons William and Maximilian, when the family saw the "bright light" shoot through the sky yesterday (Sat) afternoon. With the sun shining brightly in the clear blue sky, Ian, from Jersey in the Channel Islands, wondered if what he had seen was just a trick of the light.
March. 22, 2021: Neelakantapuram village has history dating back to 4000 before christ era, and evidence of its existence found in its nearby places. Also 1800 years ago the civilization existed there with iron, iron boxes, Chittipuralu, Black and Red mud vessels, and Satvahana times pot pieces, brick work pieces,
March. 22, 2021: Poem written by Vishnuchithudu served meals for guests in Summer. during the time of Krishnadevarayala in Andhra Pradesh.
Teli nulivecha yogidham dhiyani
charulu dhimmnaombulun
baluchani yambalu lechraku paledu neelu
rasavala lachalao
bulunu sugandhi seeta jalamulvada
pindelu neeru jalaayu
velalayaga betu bhojanam vesavi
chandana charch munnugan.
Fig.07. Summer time Vishnuchittudu served
meals for guests at his home. Sri Krishnadevarayalu
described in his Amukamalyada.
March. 22, 2021: The solution we developed was a floating trash barrier (FTB) which deployed in Cooum river in Chennai in 2017. This solution caught 22,000 tons of floating trash, of which 10 percent was plastics i.e 2200 tons of plastic in 2018 alone. We were able to catch 100 percent of surface plastics in this river, which was removed from the river and disposed off in an environmentally safe manner. This would have ended up in the sea, if not for the barriers. This exercise costed Rs 85 lakh in to deploy and absolutely nil operational expenditure for 24x7 securing of the full river width at nine locations.
March. 22, 2021: The Rigveda states that man was the seed of a cosmic egg or hiranyagarbha. The Purusha Sukta mentioned that man was made from the mangled limbs of a huge non-human man or Purusha. Whereas in the Puranas, It was Lord Vishnu who in form of a boar, jumped into the cosmic waters and brought life on earth. We all know Lord Brahma as the creator of the Universe. You all would have heard the stories of different Yugas, there are 4 Yugas in total, The Satyuga, The Dwapar Yuga, The Treta Yuga, and The Kalyuga. The end of each Yuga happens when there are immense crime and chaos and people become merciless, then God reincarnates and led the world towards light. After the last Kalpa, there is an unstoppable flood and fire and the worlds are destroyed.
March. 22, 2021: 2 hours ago:Earth Has A 'Heartbeat' Of 7.83 Hz, And It Could Affect Human Behaviour. Monit Khanna. In case you didn’t know, flashes of lightning strikes our planet roughly 50 times every second, and results in the formation of low-frequency electromagnetic waves that engulf the entire planet. These are referred to as Schumann Resonances or Earth's heartbeat and some researchers believe that they can affect human behaviour. This was first discovered in the 1960s. The waves were oscillating between greater and lower energy at a base frequency of 7.83 Hz -- the frequency that’s also referred to as ‘Earth’s heartbeat’. The reason there’s a fluctuation is due to the variations in the ionosphere and the major factor here is the intensity of solar radiation. The ionosphere becomes thinner during the night and is rather thicker during the day. Another factor that influences the strength of the resonance is the lightning hotspots of the world -- in regions like Asia, Africa and South America. A study from 2006 has discovered that the frequencies could be linked to different kinds of brain waves. They called this as ‘real-time coherence’ in variations in the Schumann and brain activity spectra within the 6 to 16 Hz band.
March. 22, 2021: Technology giant Google has finally unveiled an app called “WifiNanScan App” which will help you connect with nearby smartphones without any connectivity and it is meant for developers so they can experiment with WiFi Aware.
March. 22, 2021: Touchscreen displays have made lives easier. They have eliminated the need to press buttons multiple times. You can make calls, draw, write or run commands in a device with your finger or a stylus pen. While touching and tapping takes no separate gadget, a stylus pen either comes with the device or you have to buy it separately. These are small pen-like device with nibs that put pressure on screen resulting in appearance of text or drawing, whatever you do on screen. Here are 4 best stylus pens.
March. 21, 2021: Lightning Strikes Played a Vital Role – Just As Important as Meteorites – in Life’s Origins on Earth. Minerals delivered to Earth in meteorites more than 4 billion years ago have long been advocated as key ingredients for the development of life on our planet. Scientists believed minimal amounts of these minerals were also brought to early Earth through billions of lightning strikes. The Leeds researchers were initially interested in how fulgurite is formed but were fascinated to discover in the Glen Ellyn sample a large amount of a highly unusual phosphorous mineral called schreibersite. Phosphorus is essential to life and plays a key role in all life processes from movement to growth and reproduction. The phosphorous present on early Earth’s surface was contained in minerals that cannot dissolve in water, but schreibersite can.
March. 23, 2021: The newly-discovered basalt is distinct from known rocks in both its chemical and mineral makeup. Its existence was previously not known because no new examples have been formed in millions of years. As a result, the new basalt type lay buried deep beneath sediment at the bottom of the ocean. To find the new rock, the research team, aboard the Research Vessel (RV) JOIDES “Resolution”, sank their drilling equipment 6km down to the ocean floor of the Amami Sankaku Basin — about 1,000km southwest of Japan’s Mount Fuji volcano. They then drilled a further 1.5km into the ocean floor, extracting samples that had never before been examined by scientists.
March. 23, 2021: "We are talking of progress, we are talking about going to the moon and Mars and everywhere and we cannot provide the protective gears. It's an embarrassment for the country and for all of us sitting here," she added. Jaya Bachchan, the Samajwadi Party leader, said while speaking in the Rajya Sabha. There is no proposal to amend the law banning manual scavenging, Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Ramdas Athawale informed the Parliament Tuesday, six months after the Narendra Modi government announced a bill to make the law more stringent. The MoS’ comment came even as the draft of the amended law, The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation (Amendment) Bill, 2020, awaits cabinet approval. The draft proposes to completely mechanise the process of cleaning sewers and septic tanks, and provides a legal basis for compensation to be provided for fatalities.However, the ministry has already launched the ‘Swachhta Abhiyan App’ for uploading data relating to insanitary latrines and manual scavengers.
March. 23, 2021: Explicating the unidentified objects he added that their ''movements are so hard to replicate that we don't have the technology for. They are traveling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom.''
March 23, 2021: 10 hrs ago: Isro demonstrates quantum comm tech; to extend it to Sats next. Late last week successfully demonstrated a technology enabling secure communication between two buildings that were 300 metres apart using free-space quantum communication technology. According to Isro, a number of key technologies were developed indigenously to accomplish this major feat, which included the use of indigenously developed NAVIC receiver for time synchronization between the transmitter and receiver modules, and gimbal mechanism systems instead of bulky large-aperture telescopes for optical alignment.
March 23, 2021: 15 hours ago: UBON SP 115 X- Planet Solar Powered Wireless Speaker comes in stylish Black, Sky Blue, Blue, and Red color and priced at INR 1,699/- and can be bought from all the leading retail stores and e-commerce platforms.
March. 24, 2021: A telescope submerged nearly a mile underwater in the world's deepest lake is hunting for ghostly particles from space. Aylin Woodward 1 hour ago. Scientists have submerged a giant telescope nearly a mile underwater in Russia's Lake Baikal. Most neutrinos have been moving through space since the birth of the universe 14 billion years ago. A new telescope below the surface of the world's deepest lake has commenced a hunt for the universe's most elusive particles. These tiny particles, neutrinos, have almost no mass and no electrical charge, which makes them challenging to observe. Russia's Lake Baikal provides a perfect medium for scientists to observe neutrinos because these particles emit detectable light as they zoom through clear water. The lake's depth can also shield the detector from radiation and interference. The detector is now submerged between 0.4 miles and 0.8 miles below Lake Baikal's surface. It measures one-tenth of a mile wide, long, and tall.
March. 24, 2021: Odisha Scientist Develops Turmeric Bandage That Heals Wounds Faster, Even For Diabetic Patients. Bobins Abraham 4 hours ago. According to Dr. Sahoo, the nanoparticulate curcumin (molecule of turmeric) formulation prepared as a biodegradable polymer can be absorbed in the wound site itself. The bandage has been patented in four countries - India, US, Europe and Australia.
March. 24, 2021: ‘New force of nature’: Scientists ‘cautiously excited’ as experiment points towards new era in our understanding of the universe. Harry Cockburn 18 hours ago. A long-term experiment examining a type of subatomic particle called a beauty quark has revealed that when it is observed in the LHCb experiment, it breaks down into other subatomic particles at an uneven rate.
March. 24, 2021: Struck by lightning, truck carrying 450 LPG cylinders catches fire; explosions for hours block Jaipur-Kota highway. Jagran English 3 hours ago. However, according to a report by Dainik Bhaskar, a bolt of lightning struck the truck, which was loaded with around 450 LPG cylinders. Following the lightning, the truck caught fire and the cylinders began to explode. The explosions continued for around 3 hours causing a major traffic halt on the NH-52. The travellers were diverted to other routes by the administration and the police officials present at the spot. The report by Dainik Bhaskar further stated that the massive fire was visible from at least 5-7 km away and the fire brigade officials were not able to go closer to the burning truck due to the explosions in the LPG cylinders. Pieces of the cylinders were also recovered from nearby villages situated 5-7 km away from the spot. Dinesh, who works in the fire brigade of Deoli municipality, as reported by Dainik Bhaskar, said that it was difficult to even stand about 150 meters away from the spot.
March. 24, 2021:
Fig.08 Comlex Molecules in Space detected.
Scientists Discover Complex Molecules in Dark, Interstellar Clouds, Call it a 'Major Breakthrough'. News18 2 hours ago. The latest discovery which has astronomers holding their breath is the presence of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH) in Interstellar Medium. PAH are hydrocarbon compounds formed of two or more fused aromatic rings of carbon and hydrogen atoms. Their presence in space was suspected since the 1980s but this is the first time it has been confirmed. The scientists have been studying TMC-1 around 440 light-years away from Earth. It’s present around constellation of Taurus and previous observations have suggested complex carbon molecules presence.
March. 24, 2021: Mobile kiosk in Visakhapatnam extracts mineral-enriched water from air, named as Maithri Aquatech on innovative technology, which can generate water by harnessing the moisture in the air on a highly cost effective and scalable basis. It is at YMCA beach road and started on Tuesday.
March. 25, 2021:
It would have excavated more than 160 miles through Israel's Negev desert with nuclear bombs. The US had plans to use 520 nuclear bombs to carve out an alternative to the Suez Canal though Israel in the 1960s,
March. 25, 2021: IIT Kharagpur making Sanskrit accessible with their Artificial Intelligence-based system. India Today Web Desk 4 hours ago. While various digital resources have improved the accessibility and use of world languages and even regional languages, Sanskrit presents unique challenges in automated computational processing. In addition to the sheer volume and diversity, both stylistic and chronological, found in these texts, the linguistic peculiarities expressed by the language, pose several challenges in making these works accessible to the world. Works in Sanskrit, numbering more than 30 million extant manuscripts, include extensive epics, subtle and intricate philosophical, mathematical, and scientific treatises, and rich literary, poetic, and dramatic texts.
March. 25, 2021:
The nearest star cluster to the Sun, dubbed Haydes, may be getting destroyed. And, it could be the key to tracking down evidence of ‘dark matter subhalos’. The closest star cluster to the SunHaydes star cluster is around 153 light years away from Earth. And, it can be spotted without the help of a telescope as a ‘V’ shape of bright stars in the night sky.
March. 25, 2021: For instance, if one wants to do well with technologies like Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, then he/she can opt for Python, or if one wants to enter into the competitive programming world, he/she can opt for C++. Subsequently, one must also analyze the popularity and market demand, job prospects, efficiency, compatibility, applications, etc. of the languages to find the comparatively better one. Several renowned platforms like YouTube, Instagram, Quora, and Pinterest, use Python. Also, if you want to explore other trending domains such as Data Science, AI, and ML, Python can be considered the most relevant language. Others are Java, Javascript, and Kotlin.
March. 25, 2021: Scientists believe they may have discovered a "brand-new force of nature" at CERN's Large Hadron Collider that could explain why certain atomic particles behave unexpectedly and which may transform our understanding the rudiments of physics.First, the varying decay rate could be the result of a "Z prime" particle, essentially a new force of nature. "This force would be extremely weak, which is why we haven't seen any signs of it until now, and would interact with electrons and muons differently," they wrote. Another possibility is the currently hypothetical "lyptoquark", which can decay quarks and leptons simultaneously and which "could be part of a larger puzzle that explains why we see the particles that we do in nature".
March. 26, 2021: Invisible 'ghost stars' may be holding galaxies together in space. What does this revelation change? 3 hours ago. The experiments were looking for particles called WIMPS or Weakly Interacting Massive Particles, which many scientists call the leading candidate for actual dark matter. Another candidate is what they’re calling the “dark boson”, and according to the BBC, this boson could be the basic ingredient of dark matter and/or dictate how it interacts with matter visible to us. Further study of these dark bosons revealed that they were getting piled up to form ghost stars. In the absence of a core at the centre, these stars would emit no light and remain invisible. That's not it! These stars could actually be mistaken for supermassive black holes by scientists.
March. 26, 20321: ISRO has successfully demonstrated free-space quantum communication over a distance of 300 metres. The successful demonstration of this is the first step to enter a future where Indian satellites would be used for transmitting quantum-encrypted data from one location to another.
March. 27, 2021: “All 25 crew are safe and accounted for. All crew are Indian nationals and remain onboard. The crew are working closely with all parties involved to re-float the vessel. The hard work and tireless professionalism of the Master and crew is greatly appreciated,” A dust storm beached the container ship, which is 1300 feet long, and has created a massive traffic jam on the Suez Canal, keeping as many as 150 ships behind it, waiting.
March. 27, 2021: Over 82% of laptop issues in India are hardware-related, less than 18% related to software:1 day ago. The report found that within hardware, while display and keyboard related problems were expected to be the topmost, surprisingly Wi-Fi connectivity emerged as the highest that stood at 27 percent of all laptop service requests. Eighteen percent accounted for keyboard and the trackpad related issues followed by display at 15 percent, and battery and charging related glitches at 8 percent. Other hardware issues related to audio, bluetooth, exhaust fans, hard disk, overheating, physical damage, power button, and webcam, accounted for around just two percent of laptops serviced.
March. 28, 2021: 5:59 AM: It slightly rained in the night on Saturday-Sunday, hardly a few minutes, possibly due to the full moon, in Visakhapatnam, it was a pleasent surprise, in the very warm hot Summer.
March. 28, 2021: Two astronomy labs opened for students in Ladakh. 22 hours ago. These labs have been established one each at Kendriya Vidyalaya, Leh and Kendriya Vidyalaya, Kargil. These have been sponsored by Shiv Nadar Foundation could be utilized as a stepping stone to promote Astro tourism in Ladakh.
March. 28, 2021: PLANT EGG PREPARATIONS: SUNDAY ANDHRAJYOTHI: "A0 Foods" established by Shradha Bhavani and Kartik Dikshit made Egg Sana from plants, self Bhavani is a vegetarian she stays in Mumbai, and is running a vegetarian restaurant, and established the "AO Foods". Just like the regular Egg this plant egg, can be used to prepare all the varities of regular hen egg. 100 ML liquid has 12 grams proteins, currently supplying the plant egg preparations are available now Mumbai and Bangalure. It will be made available online shortly.
March. 28, 2021: A process that was measured was the decay of a meson B (which contained beauty quark) into K-meson (which contains the strange quark) and a muon-antimuon pair, and this was compared with the decay of B into K meson and an ELECTRON_ANTIELECTRON pair.The expectation is that the ratio of the strengths of these two sets of interactions would be just ONE. However, what the LHCb has seen is that the ratio is not ONE but it is approximately 0.846. This descripency is only at the level of 3.1 sigma, expected that it should be 5 sigma or more to avoid the chance of fluke.
March. 28, 2021: A 'lump' of dark matter may be ripping apart Taurus' face. Brandon Specktor 1 day ago. The Hyades — a young, V-shaped cluster of stars swooshing through the head of the constellation Taurus — is slowly being ripped apart by an enormous, invisible mass, a new study suggests. This unrest in the bull's head could point to an ancient cache of dark matter left over from the Milky Way's creation. In the new paper, published March 24 in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, researchers used data from the European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia star-mapping satellite to investigate the history of the Hyades. Located about 150 light-years from Earth, this family of several hundred stars is the closest star cluster to our solar system, and it's clearly visible in the night sky. (One of its brighter stars, Epsilon Tauri, is also called the "Bull's eye" for its prominent position on the face of Taurus.). Astronomers estimate that the cluster is between 600 million and 700 million years old (a cosmic infant compared with our sun's 4.6 billion years), and has already changed shape significantly in that time, thanks to the gravitational influence of other nearby clusters and objects. The cluster's "tails" — two stretched-out clumps of stars separated from the bulk of the cluster's body, one aiming toward the Milky Way's center and the other trailing away from it. The trailing tail had remarkably fewer stars in it than the leading tail. It looked as if the trailing tail was "dissolving" into space. It's possible that the "lump" warping the Hyades cluster is in fact a dark matter sub-halo, invisibly bending the stars to its whims.
March. 29, 2021:
Fig.11. Galactic Center GeV Excess.
Mysterious glow in Milky Way's centre could be due to dark matter. 3 hours ago. Astronomers have been perplexed by the Galactic Center GeV Excess (GCE) ever since it was discovered in 2009. NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope observes and identifies gamma rays from dark matter annihilations occurring cosmologically, as well as within the Galactic Halo, dwarf galaxies, microhalos, and the inner region of the Milky Way. Due to the very high densities of dark matter predicted to be present in the central region of our galaxy, the inner Milky Way is expected to be the single brightest source of dark matter annihilation radiation in the sky.
March. 30, 2021: Endaada with devotion and attention, Sriyadanandnadha Eswara Satyanarayanasarma in his presence his disciples, in the orderliness of Suravarapu Ramakrishna Sarma, purnahahuthi, devi homamam acts are being executed since March 29, of this year. On Monday since morning 8 o'clock till night 10 PM without any stop performed the homam and other devotional acts. Due to this prevention of Carona and Crops grown successfully, people would be happy said Satyanarayanasarma. As a part of SriVidya excellence, with Susaravu Ramakrishna in Tirupati, started the Diksha, and in Srisailamakshetram about 45 days in the vicinity of Bramarambikadevi Panchdasa Lalitha maha mantra with "KATORA" devotion three lakhs time the "JAPA PUNASCHARNA" performed. Due to the Full Moon 1000 Lotus flowers they successfully performed the homam.
March. 30, 2021: Astronomers at MIT Discover 3 Atypical Galaxy Clusters That Were Hiding in Plain Sight All Along 1 hour ago. astronomers from MIT wouldn’t let the vastness of the cosmos hide objects from humanity. They have discovered several unusual galactic neighbourhoods never observed before. They observed that some galaxy clusters are often misidentified as a single, bright galaxy as they look atypical. Such galaxies amount to roughly 1% of all observations. It housed a grand black hole, engulfing all matter and emitting energy and X-Rays. It had a blueish hue usually associated with young star population instead of the typical red hue of aging stars. The star forming rate in this cluster is nearly 500 times faster than other observed galaxies. With this unusual discovery, Clusters Hiding in Plain Sight (CHiPS) survey was born. Three new clusters have been identified in the survey. CHIPS1911+4455.
March. 30, 2021: In July 2019, two samples of soil arrived at our lab at the University of Vermont frozen solid. We began the painstaking process of splitting the precious few ounces of frozen mud and sand for different analyses. First, we photographed the layering in the soil before it was lost forever. Then we chiseled off small bits to examine under the microscope. We melted the rest and saved the ancient water. Then came the biggest surprise. While we were washing the soil, we spotted something floating in the rinse water. Paul grabbed a pipette and some filter paper, Drew grabbed tweezers and turned on the microscope. We were absolutely stunned as we looked down the eyepiece. Staring back at us were leaves, twigs and mosses. This wasn’t just soil. This was an ancient ecosystem perfectly preserved in Greenland’s natural deep freeze.
March. 31, 2021: 40 minutes ago: A 400-meter-long and 224,000-tonne container ship Ever Given was stranded in the Suez Canal for nearly a week from March 23 while en route from Malaysia to Rotterdam, Netherlands. The ship's middle rose and fell with the tide, bending up and down under the tremendous weight of some 20,000 containers across its quarter-mile length. On Monday, when workers partially refloated the ship, all that pressure fled to its bow, which acted as a pivot until the ship ultimately came free.
March 31, 2021: Weather in Visakhapatnam was pretty hot and possibly would continue upto 2nd April.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The author is indebted to Late Prof. K. R. Rao D.Sc. (Madras) D.Sc. (London) for stimulating encouragement to publish my articles on Science & Technology given in trusciencetrutechnology@blogspot.com. He is also grateful to Late Mrs. Peramma Rangadhama Rao for her admiration and support for the publication of my articles. Her biodata and personal details I have listed in the trusciencetrutechnology@blogspot.com. She told me that the Meteorides that fall on the Earth carry with them the human life ingrediants. Recent find of water and other earthly elements in distant objects reported by Japanese [object 25143 Itokawa asteroid has shown that the object had both extraterrestrial water and organic material] and also Americans is thrilling. When her son Dr K V N Rao (Ill) had been to USA, she expected a possible trip to visit USA (not materialized) and always observed the 4th July, the day of US independence.
