FACTS SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - 1

FACTS  ‑‑‑‑  SCIENCE  &  TECHNOLOGY - 1

1.      Scientists have created sperms from human skin to help infertile men.

2.      Scientists have found arthropods preserved in amber 100 million years old.

3.      Polonium 210 is 250 billion times more toxic.

4.      Coconut water is excellent sports drink.

5.      Obesity is a risk factor for the decline of cognitive property.

6.      Nano particles in soil effect soybean crops.

7.      Bugs ate 2, 00,000 tons of oil spill.

8.      Ants are four to five times more odour receptors than other insects.

9.      Cardiometabollic factors are reduced by exercise.

10.  Firemaster is a robot that enters fire to put it off. It informs that its work is over to control room 100 metres away.

11.  Fluorescent lamps depend on ultra violet photons discharged by electrically excited mercury.

12.  If pure oxygen is inhaled for half-a-minute retentive power can be increased.

13.  When light falls on a glass, 8% of it is reflected back.

14.  Quazam is a substance which is between graphite and diamond.

15.  Quazam looks like a diamond.

16.  Finger prints can also tell our health condition.

17.  Squalid is a substance that is found in finger prints.

18.  Squalid is produced when cholesterol in the body is diminished.

19.  Magnetic cloud, liberated from the sun touched the earth after 4 days.

20.  Magnetic cloud disturbed earth’s communication system.

21.  In Bihar, Pathal Gadwa forests a centre for making stone implements was found.

22.  Every galaxy has a black hole in its centre.

23.  Quasars are bigger than sun.

24.  The biggest pyramid was built in 26 BC.

25.  Eating a garlic clove a day can save us from bowel cancer.

26.  Lotus leaf inspires fog-fee finish to glass.

27.  Colloidal quantum dot {COD} is material that can reduce cost of solar cells drastically.

28.  China developed a robot that can walk on water.

29.  Bacteria can disinfect the soil.

30.  Human interference causes 6 X 10⁹ tons of CO₂ into atmosphere.

31.  Because global warming the capacity of  the  oceans to absorb CO₂ is decreasing.

32.  Pig’s liver cells are placed in human liver cells, the problem of cholesterol in human beings can be eliminated.

33.  Volcanic ash preserved ancient animal fossils.

34.  Glaciers in the Himalayas are shrinking rapidly.

35.  There are 240 prohibited drugs. Athletes’  urine is tested for any trace of them.

36.  In 16 days of Olympics at  least 5,000 urine and 1000 blood samples will be analysed.

37.  People who live in higher places become old soon.

38.  BPA a plastic additive can disrupt women’s reproductive systems, causing miscarriages and birth defects.

39.  Eye proteins have germ killing power.

40.  Fat in obese persons boosts prostate cancer.

41.  After noon rains are more likely over drier soils.

42.  Wood and bark were part of human ancestor’s diet.

43.  Solar cells are layered of amorphous silicon is of 70 nano metres.

44.  Google created artificial brain consisting of 16,000 computer processors, with one billion connections and 10 million YouTube videos.

45.  Google’s artificial brain creation is of “blue sky ideas” lab.

46.  “green rust” might have played a vital role in creating early atmosphere.

47.  Pioneer X was sent into space in 1974 to probe for extra terrestrial life.

48.  Artificial Moon gives light over Siberia.

49.  God enters where science cannot answer.

50.  The angle of sun ray is called time.