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Nd-Fe-B Magnet Pilot Plant: ARCI Hyderabad, Rare-Earth Elements & Permanent Magnets

Nd-Fe-B Magnet Pilot Plant: ARCI Hyderabad, Rare-Earth Elements & Permanent Magnets

Why in news? A pilot facility to produce neodymium‑iron‑boron (Nd–Fe–B) magnets was inaugurated at the International Advanced Research Centre ...

Adipose Tissue: White, Brown & Beige Fat, Metabolism & Thermogenesis

Adipose Tissue: White, Brown & Beige Fat, Metabolism & Thermogenesis

Why in news? Fat is often thought of as inert storage, but recent research has highlighted that adipose tissue is metabolically active and plays a key...

MXene Catalyst: Green Hydrogen, Solar Desalination & IIT Guwahati

MXene Catalyst: Green Hydrogen, Solar Desalination & IIT Guwahati

Why in news? Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati have developed a material based on MXene that can generate hydrogen effi...

Melanoma Cancer: Nuclear Cholesterol, LBR Protein & Metastasis

Melanoma Cancer: Nuclear Cholesterol, LBR Protein & Metastasis

Why in news? A study led by scientists at the U.S. National Institutes of Health found that cholesterol accumulated in the nuclear envelope of cancer ...

Floating LiDAR Buoy: NIOT, Offshore Wind Projects & Weather Forecasting

Floating LiDAR Buoy: NIOT, Offshore Wind Projects & Weather Forecasting

Why in news? The National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) successfully tested an indigenously developed floating LiDAR buoy off the coast of Mutt...

Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome: Progerinin Drug & LMNA Gene

Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome: Progerinin Drug & LMNA Gene

Why in news? A biotechnology company, PRG S&T, recently signed a licensing agreement with Sentynl Therapeutics (a Zydus Group company) to develop and ...

Dimethyl Ether: DME Fuel, CSIR-NCL Technology & Clean Energy

Dimethyl Ether: DME Fuel, CSIR-NCL Technology & Clean Energy

Why in news? The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research – National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR‑NCL) has announced that it is ready to scale u...

Valles Marineris: Mars Canyon, Ferric Hydroxysulphate & Geology

Valles Marineris: Mars Canyon, Ferric Hydroxysulphate & Geology

Why in news? Scientists from the SETI Institute have identified a rare iron sulphate, ferric hydroxysulphate, in layered deposits near Mars’s vast V...

Titan Acrylonitrile: Saturn Moon, Astrobiology & Extraterrestrial Life

Titan Acrylonitrile: Saturn Moon, Astrobiology & Extraterrestrial Life

Why in news? Laboratory experiments simulating the conditions on Saturn’s moon Titan have shown that acrylonitrile, a molecule present in Titan’s ...

Alprazolam Seizure: DRI Bust, Psychotropic Substances & NDPS Act

Alprazolam Seizure: DRI Bust, Psychotropic Substances & NDPS Act

Why in news? During “Operation White Hammer” on 11–12 March 2026, India’s Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) raided a clandestine facil...

Van Allen Probes: Earth Radiation Belts & Space Weather

Van Allen Probes: Earth Radiation Belts & Space Weather

Why in news? NASA announced that Van Allen Probe A, one of two identical spacecraft launched in 2012 to study Earth’s radiation belts, re‑entered ...

Peptides: Amino Acids, Medical Therapeutics & FDA

Peptides: Amino Acids, Medical Therapeutics & FDA

Why in news? The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced in late March 2026 that it plans to remove certain peptides from its list of prohib...

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