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The technique that enables a light field to be recorded and later reconstructed when the original light field is no longer present is called?

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Holography

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An apparatus containing a movable or driven mirror, used to reflect sunlight in a fixed direction is called?

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Heliostat

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What is the name of Israel’s largest solar power project, currently under construction?

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Ashalim Project

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Israel’s largest solar power project, Ashalim project, is located in?

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Negev desert

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The world’s largest solar tower, at 250 m, is being constructed in?

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The Ashalim Solar Power Project, Negev desert, Israel.

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The Ashalim Solar Power Project in Israel will generate a power of?

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310 MW

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The method used by the Ashalim Solar Power Project in Israel to generate power is?

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Solar Thermal Method

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The method where mirrors focus Sun’s rays to heat the boiler creating steam to spin the turbine and generate electricity is called?

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Solar Thermal Method

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The Ashalim Project will help Israel achieve its goal of generating ______% of its electricity from renewable sources by ______.

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10%, 2020

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Intermediaries between planets and full-fledged stars are called?

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Brown Dwarfs

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The mass of a brown dwarf is less than that of a planet. True or false?

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False

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The mass of a brown dwarf is too small for ________ to take place.

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Nuclear fusion of Hydrogen to Helium.

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A new Brown drawf has been discovered in which constellation?

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Pisces

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Name the world’s largest nuclear and particle physics lab.

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European Organization for Nuclear Research. (CERN)

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CERN is based in?

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Geneva

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CERN has ____ member states, ____ associate member states and ____ observers.

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22, 4, 7

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Name the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator.

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Large Hadron Collider

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Name the general purpose detector used at the LHC to study the standard model including the Higgs Boson.

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Compact Muon Solenoid(CMS)

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Name the experiment used for research in the physics of particles at an infinitely small scale.

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ALICE - A Large Ion Collider Experiment

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India was inducted as an observer in CERN in?

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2004

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India became an associate member of CERN in?

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2016

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India and CERN signed a cooperation agreement in?

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1991

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Name the institute which started India’s involvement with CERN.

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Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai in 1960s.

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Name the Indian institute which built accelerator components for the CERN.

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Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology

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In the field of large scale computing, India has designed, developed and deployed software for the?
Worldwide Large Hadron Collider Grid(WLCG)
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Which country has developed a floating LNG plant?
China
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What is the range of power generation capacity of the floating LNG plant?
10-800 MW
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Natural Gas is converted into a liquid by cooling it to?
-162℃
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Name the Aurangabad based startup which developed India's first biometric blood bank.
Strides Software Solutions
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Innovative tiolets which reuse waste water to create biogas to generate power were developed in Kerala by?
Eram Scientific
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Name the two missions announced by NASA to explore asteroids.
Lucy and Psyche
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Lucy is scheduled to be launched in which year?
2021
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Which asteroids is the NASA mission Lucy going to explore?
Jupiter's Trojan Asteroids
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Nasa's mission Psyche is scheduled to be launched in which year?
2023
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Name the asteroid which the Nasa mission Psyche is going to explore.
16 Psyche Asteroid
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Nasa mission Lucy will help gain more info about?
The Earth's core and the formation and evolution of planets.
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What is the composition of the asteroid 16 Psyche?
Iron and Nickel
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The world's highest altitude gravitational wave telescope is being constructed by?
China
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The world's highest altitude gravitational wave telescope is being constructed in?
Ngari territory in Tibet.
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The objective if the Ngari Gravitational Wave Telescope is to know more about?
The Big Bang Theory
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The Ngari Gravitational Wave Telescope is expected to be operational by?
2021
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The process of encoding and decoding information so that it is sent srcurely over a communication network is called?
Cryptography
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Quantum cryptography uses?
Quantum physics
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Until the 1990s, cryptography was based on?
algorithms
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In quantum cryptography, the key is generated using?
Spin of the photon
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Which country is ready to offer India quantum cryptography?
Russia
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What are the fields in which quantum cryptography can be employed?
Banking and Espionage
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Waves associated with the path of the jet stream and the formation of low and high pressure systems are called?
Rossby Waves
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Rossby Waves have been detected on?
Sun
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The giant, spinning and persistent storm in Jupiter's atmosphere is called?
The Giant Red Spot
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A series of oval shaped storms in Jupiter's atmosphere is called?
String of pearls
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Name the solar system discovered by Chile and Nasa?
Trappist 1
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The star, Trappist-1 is found in which constellation?
Aquarius
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The area near a star considered to be ideal for the emergence of life is called?
Goldilocks Zone
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Which stars make promising targets for extraterrestrial life to be found?
Dim red dwarf stars
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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
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A planet that orbits the sun other than the sun is called?
Exoplanet
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The Wolf 1061 Solar system is located in which constellation?
Ophiuchus
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Exoplanets with a mass 1-10 times that of the Earth are called?
Super Earth
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The Super Earth classification refers only to ____ and not to ______ or ______
mass, surface conditions, habitability
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The Wolf 1061 C exoplanet is within the ____ zone of a star?
Goldilocks
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The Wolf 1061 star is a?
M class Red Dwarf
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Name the government project to carry out scientifically validated research on cow derivatives including its urine and their benefits.
SVAROP
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Abbreviate SVAROP
Scientific Validation and Research on Panchgavya
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What is the concoction of cow dung, cow urine, milk, curd and ghee called?
Panchgavya
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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.
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Which molecules are thought to be important building blocks of life?
Negatively charged Carbon Chain Anions.
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Carbon Chain Anions have been discovered in which satelite of which planet using which mission?
Titan satellite of Saturn using the Cassini mission
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Super flexible and strong artificial silk has been developed by the scientists of which university?
University of Cambridge
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The super flexible and strong artificial silk fibres developed in University of Cambridge is spun from?
A soupy material called Hydrogel
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What is the composition of Hydrogel?
98% Water and 2 % Silica and Cellulose
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An artificial heart has been designed using which technology?
3D printing technology
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Artificial heart designed using 3D printing technology uses which material?
Silicone
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Name the massive supercluster of galaxies discovered by Indian scientists.
Saraswati
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How far is the supercluster Saraswati away from us?
4 billion light-years
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What is the width of the Saraswati supercluster?
600 million light-years
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Name the first discovered supercluster of galaxies
Shapley, 1989
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Name the second supercluster of galaxies discovered.
Sloane Great Wall, 2003
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The third discovered supercluster of galaxies is?
Lanaikea, 2014
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The Milky Way Galaxy is part of which supercluster of galaxies?
Lanaikea
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The largest coherent structures seen in the world are?
Superclusters
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What is the width of the Milky Way Galaxy?
150,000 light-years
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Where does the Supercluster Saraswati lie in the sky?
Stripe 82 of Sloan Digital Sky Survey
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Name the ambitious plan to make a digital 3D map of the universe.
Sloane Digital Sky Survey.
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Name the Bioluminescent shark recently discovered by scientists.
Etmopterus Lailae
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To which family do Bioluminescent sharks belong?
Lanternshark
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Where are Bioluminescent sharks found?
At a depth of 1000 ft in Pacific Ocean
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What are the unique features of the Bioluminescent sharks?
Strange head shape and unusally large and bulgy snout
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Which chemical compound is also known as Flammable Ice?
Methane Hydrate
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Which country has recently been successful in producing natural gas from Methane Hydrate?
China
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Which sea is thought to contain promising deposits of Methane Hydrate or Flammable Ice?
South China Sea
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CO2 is a more potent GHG than methane. True or False.
False.
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The bioactive component of turmeric is called?
Curcumin
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It has been found that nanoparticles loaded with curcumin can target and destroy which tumour cells.
Neuroblastoma
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Which is the most common cancer in children younger than five years old?
Neuroblastoma
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Where are functional cloud physics observatories located in India?
Munnar(Kerala) and Mahabaleshwar (Konkan)
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Name the new gene-editing technology used to store a movie in the DNA?
CRISPR or CAS-9
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What are the four molecules that DNA is made up of?
Adenine, guanine, thymine and cytosine
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Movie has been stored in the DNA of which organism?
the common gut bacteria, coli
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Abbreviate CRISPR
Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats

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