(Mains Hub) Special Materials for GS Mains 2012: "Science & Technology"

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• What do you understand by the term Neutrinos? Bring out the position of India in Neutrino Physics

• Bring out the appication of Neutrino technoogy

• India-based Neutrion Observatory (INO) project

• What do you understand by HapMap Project? Why HapMap Project has bee in news recenty?

• The first-ever Census of Marine ife (CoM)

• Differentiate cruise missie from baistic missie

• What do you understand by the term breeder reactor? Assess the contributions made by the Fast Breeder

• Test Reactor at Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) in Kapakkam Bring out Homi

• Bhabhas vision for the country’s nucear eectricity programme,

• Rustom

• What do you understand by In vitro fertiisation (IVF)?

• What is graphene Bring out the uses of grapheme

• What are geneticay modified (GM) organisms and GM foods? Do you think GM foods are safe?

• Bring out the arguments with reference to abeing of GM foods Bring out the operationa issues associated with abeing of GM foods Coud seeding

• Bug

• An aerostat

• Agni-II Prime

• What is Cryogenics? Bring out the uses of cryogenics

• FOSS

• Middeware

• What do you understand by G or rd generation mobie teecommunications? When it was introduced in India?

• Dragon capsue

• Mycopasma aboratorium or Creation of first sef-repicating synthetic ife

• ‘Rosetta Stone’ For T-dwarf Stars

• TERC gene

• Anchor Babies

• Truvada

• Avandia

• Ununseptium  ooxcie

• Enter Square

• Googe’s new Prius

• Martin Jetpack

• Edison

• Trace the origin of Word Wide Web

• Resourcesat-

• What is S bard spectrum? Bring out the importance of S band spectrum

• What do you understand by the term Geospatia Technoogy? Bring out the detais regarding Nationa

• Geospatia Data Authority

• India’s third power reactor spent fue reprocessing pant

• Transgenesis

• What do you understand by Pusars?

• Eucid

• What do you understand by Dark energy?

• The James Webb Space Teescope

• The Mars experiment

• DNA profiing

• Phishing

• What is a nucear submarine? Bring out the performance advantages of nucear submarines over “conventiona” (typicay diese-eectric) submarines How far India has deveoped this technoogy? 

• What do you understand, by the term “Coud computing” Bring out the uses of Coud computing

• What do you understand by the term Carbon capture and storage? Bring out the initiatives taken by the Government of India towards Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

• What do you understand by the term Reprocessing of Nucear fue? Write about the Reprocessing accord signed between India and the US Bring out the significance of this accord

• What do you understand by the term Custer Munitions? Bring out the issues associated with custer Munitions Write about The Convention on Custer Munitions

• What is Internationa Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC)? Bring out the India’s contribution to ICGC  Write a short note on IMEI number

• What do you understand by the term New Dehi metao-beta-Iactamase (NDM-) Write about superbug

• Write about Bhuvan and its features

• What is AWACS? Bring out the uses of AWACS Write about India’s AWACS

• Write a short note on India’s Aircraft Carriers What are the strategic needs to have Aircraft carriers?

• What is GAAN? Bring out the uses of GAGAN

• Write a short note on Goba Navigation Sateite System (GNSS)

• What do you understand by the term Advanced Technoogy Vesse (ATV) Project? Bring out the importance of ATV project

• What is Oceansat-II? Bring out the uses of Oceansat-II

• What do you understand by the term Nucear triad? Do you think India is N-triad?

• Write a short note on Indian human spacefight program How far India is prepared for this programme?

• Chandrayaan- 2

• What do you understand by the term Traditiona Knowedge Digita ibrary (TKD) bring out the importance of TKD with a reevant exampe  EDGE

• What do you understand by the term Biometrics? How a biometric system can operate? 

• Garima

• What do you understand by the term ‘RISORINE”?

• What do you understand by Vaxifu-S?

• Give a brief account of the arge Hadron Coider (HC) and its recent deveopments

• Write about , Genomes Project

• Space teescope Panck and its recent achievement

• Write a note on StudSat Give a brief account of Nano, Micro and Pico sateites Bring out efforts taken by the ISRO to coeges and universities to study space technoogy 

• Write about CARTOSAT B

• Give a brief account of Thirty Metre Teescope (TMT) project

• Write about Indian Baistic Missie Defense Program

• What is Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDO)? Bring out the recent achievement of OSDD

• What is CD project? Bring out the achievements of CD project

• “INS Vikrant”

• Write a note on Fiber-optic communication