Q: The terms ‘Agreement on Agriculture’, ‘Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures’ and ‘Peace Clause’ appear in the news frequently in the context of the affairs of the
a) Food and Agriculture Organization
b) United Nations Framework Conference on Climate Change
c) World Trade Organization
d) United Nations Environment Programme
The correct answer is 1, 2, and 3.
The Ice Cube Neutrino Observatory/Ice Cube
- It is the first detector of its kind, designed to observe the cosmos from deep within the South Pole ice. Hence, Statement 1 is correct.
- The Ice Cube Collaboration is an international team of scientists working on scientific research, consisting of about 300 physicists from 53 universities across 12 countries.
- The worldwide team is in charge of the scientific programme and many of the collaborators were involved in the design and building of the detector; the University of Wisconsin-Madison is the lead institution and is in charge of the maintenance and operations of the detector.
- Encompassing a cubic kilometre of ice, Ice Cube searches for nearly massless subatomic particles called neutrinos. Hence Statement 3 is correct.
- This collaborator addresses several big questions in physics, like the nature of dark matter and the properties of the neutrino itself. Hence Statement 2 is correct.
- It also keeps track of cosmic rays’ interactions with the atmosphere of the Earth, which have uncovered intriguing structures that are currently unknown. The collaboration’s exciting new research is providing a fresh perspective on the universe.
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