August Current affairs part 3

 Hello friends, today we are going to continue the current affair series.

1. The Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board (KSEED) on Monday declared the SSLC results. A total of 6 students scored 625/625 marks in exams. The state recorded a pass percentage of 71.80%, which is reportedly a drop of 1.9% in comparison with the pass percentage of 2019. Over 8 lakh students from the state appeared for exam.

2. The Delhi University has activated an online portal for insurance of digital degree certificates to students who graduated from the University up till last year but did not receive their degrees, the Delhi High Court was informed. The university said that the students have to register at www.digicerti.du.ac.in, after which the digital degree certificates will be issued within a week.

3. A study sugested that 50 minutes dry heat in an electric cooker can decontaminate N95 respirators inside and out while maintaining their filtration and fit. Researchers verified that one cooking cycle, which maintained the cooker's temperature around 100 degree Celsius. Decontaminated the mask. It helped in getting rid of 4 different classes of virus including Corona virus.

4. Researchers have discovered a a 'bizarre'reptile fossil, which had a neck three times long from its torso, which lived in water. First described in 1852, the 20 foot long and lived 242 million years ago. They also said that the 'Tanystropheus hydroides' shared coastal waters with another smaller but similar-looking Tanystropheus species.

5. NASA has gathered the first full global map of helium, in the solar atmosphere using the sounding rocket launched in 2009. Using the images of the solar corona, scientists figured equatorial regions had almost no helium while areas at mid latitudes had the most helium. They further said abundance at mid latitudes overlaps with where Sun's magnetic field lines open out in the solar system.

6. Kobe University researchers have discovered what they believe may be the largest impact crater in the solar system located on Jupiter's biggest moon named Ganymede, they found these concentrical rings are distributed across almost the entire moon surface. This global distribution indicates the rings may be the remains of crater covering Ganymede.

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