Science and Technology Questions & Answers for UPSC

Science and Technology is that segment of UPSC Civil Services Examination that scares most of the aspirants coming from non-technical backgrounds. One question is often asked that is, “How to prepare Science and Technology for UPSC?”

Along with answering how to prepare for Science and Technology for UPSC IAS Exam, BYJU’S Science Education Portal has answered questions from wide-ranging topics that are important for the exam.

The answers are tailored to aspirants’ needs. Not only from the static topics, questions are extracted even from the current affairs topics that are related to science and technology.

How will Science Questions & Answers help UPSC aspirants?

The Science and Technology Questions & Answers portal will help IAS aspirants in the following way:

  • Clarity of topics – A variety of topics from science are covered that will bring clarity on how to approach this subject for UPSC.
  • UPSC Syllabus is the source – Any topic that is important from the civil services examination point of view has been covered in the form of questions ans answers.
  • From NCERTs to Current Affairs – Each question from a key topic that has been covered either in school textbooks or newspapers and is important from the exam’s point of view will be answered here.
Genome India project aims to build a reference genome by collecting 10,000 genetic samples from citizens all over India. You can read about the...
Human genome contains nucleotide base pairs numbering upto 3 billion. Sequencing them meticulously was the purpose of the human genome project....
Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) is used in the military to increase the speed of military operations, to expand the scale and scope of military...
Three branches of ISRO are located in Gujarat - Space Applications Centre (SAC), Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Development and Educational...
Although there are different indexes, different research and different rankings given by various agencies and institutions, without doubt, the...
The Army of the United States of America (U.S.A.) has the best technology. An example is, the Indian Army has purchased M-777 Howitzers, which...
Defence forces or the Armed Forces of India are assisted by various establishments such as Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO),...
Yes, India produces or manufactures different types of defence equipment. Some of them are developed and produced indigenously, whereas some...
In 2019-20, as per the information shared in the Lok Sabha, India had exported defense equipments worth approximately Rs 9,100 crores. India...
Approximately 50% of India’s defence equipments are imported from Russia. Russia is followed by France and Israel. In the recent past, India has...
The Higgs Boson particle provides information about the existence of the Higgs field, which is an energy field present throughout the universe....
The Higgs boson is known as the God particle due to massive obstacles and difficulties involved in detecting the Higgs boson particle. You can...
The Higgs Boson is a very elusive particle to find, and it is the only and first scalar particle that has been observed. You can read about the...
Bosons, quarks and lepton combine to form well-known particles such as protons and neutrons. There are six different types of quarks. You can...
The Higgs boson is known as the God particle. It was discovered in 2012, using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, located near Geneva in...
In the standard model of Particle Physics, the Higgs Boson (also known as God particle), is the elementary particle that decays quickly, it is...
The Higgs boson is the God particle. It is an elementary particle in the Higgs field. It is found in the Higgs field. Dark matter is not the same...
The Higgs boson is known as the God particle. You can read about the Large Hadron Collider: Purpose, Description and Location in the given link....
The United States of America (U.S.A) has the most advanced military technology in the world. The other countries which have the most advanced...
The Higgs boson is proven. The properties of a particle discovered in 2012 by the CMS and the ATLAS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider...