Current Affairs - Science

International scientists have created a refined map of Zealandia, the submerged eighth continent.

NASA's Perseverance rover set the record for the longest Martian navigation without human assistance by covering 2,296.2 feet in the challenging terrain of Snowdrift Peak within the Jezero Crater.

The NASA capsule that landed in the Utah desert carried the largest asteroid sample ever collected.

Researchers at the Cochin University of Science and Technology (Cusat) have identified a new species of marine tardigrade which they have named after the late former President and scientist A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. Named ‘Batillipes kalami’, the new species of tardigrades was found by researchers in the intertidal beach sediments of Mandapam coast, close to Kalam’s birthplace in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu.

Neuralink, a brain-computer interface (BCI) company founded by Elon Musk, has received permission from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to begin human trials of its brain chip implant.