16 JULY 2018

●Artist Gilbert Baker(gay man);-
↪designed the first rainbow flag in 1978.
he adopted eight colors each with its own meaning
•hot pink -> sex
•red -> life
•orange ->healing
• yellow ->sunlight
• green -> nature
•turquoise ->art
• indigo -> harmony
• violet -> spirit
●Medipix;-
↪ works like a camera detecting and counting individual sub-atomic particles
↪New Zealand scientists have performed the first-ever 3-D, colour X-ray on a human
●TPOXX (tecovirimat);-
↪Is a small-molecule antiviral treatment for "smallpox"
●SA-21 Growler;-
↪designed to detect and destroy an array of targets( upto1,000 KM away)strategic bombers,aircraft like F-16& F-22

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