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Nokia X2: A Better Alternative?
If you watch television even for a little while, you must have seen the Nokia Lumia advertisement; the one in which a young man talks about how his Nokia Lumia phone has helped him adjust to a new...
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India Successfully Enters The Mars Orbit
Today is a significant day for India as it has created history with its success of the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), officially called the Magalyaan Mission. After almost ten and a half months, a Mars...
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ISRO To Launch Its Third Navigation Satellite
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch the Indian Regional Navigational Satellite System (IRNSS) 1C satellite- third of the seven satellites that are to be shot into the space- as a...
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Facebook’s Egg Freezing Policy: Pros And Cons
Facebook and Apple had earlier this month announced a policy that offers to pay a sum of $20,000 to women employees who wish to opt for egg freezing. Apprehensions were quick to arrive and criticisms...
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Grocer’s Son At Harvard Seeks to Provide Early AIDS Diagnosis
Imagine how “detecting HIV on a piece of paper” using a hand-held device for less than two dollars in 30 minutes, can change peoples’ lives around the globe. Young Ismailia researcher, Sultan Khetani,...
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Why Ancient India Could Not Have Had Genetic, Cosmetic Science
As a child, and in fact even now, I am fascinated by the sheer imaginative rigour of mythical characters and mythologies across cultures and traditions. Be it the Greek mythology with is arena of...
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The Indian Pharmaceuticals
About two years back a magazine quoted Richard Gerster saying, “The Indian pharmaceutical industry is a success story providing employment for millions and ensuring that essential drugs at affordable...
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Clothes Maketh A Man: Dr. Matt Taylor’s Controversial Shirt.
In a parallel universe Dr. Matt Taylor is in a white laboratory coat, being applauded for his connection with the successful landing of the first ever spacecraft on a comet. With a snap of fingers he...
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Artificial Intelligence Could Wipe Us Out? Hawking Thinks So
Movies like I, Robot and Matrix might hold some truth, after all, in depicting that artificial intelligence could pose a potential threat to the human race. Stephen Hawking, renowned British...
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Fusing Mythology With Science: 102nd Indian Science Congress.
Did you know that India has given the world the Pythagoras Theorem? Yes, the formula that calculates the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angle triangle was actually formulated in India and not...
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Jobs That Could Dominate In The Near Future
The number of people without a job in India is increasing on a daily basis. Economic slowdown in the domestic arena coupled with slow growth in Europe has meant that well paying jobs are hard to come...
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NASA’s Dawn Probe Closes In on Ceres
Launched on September 27, 2007, from Florida, NASA’s Dawn mission is finally closing on Ceres, a dwarf planet. Expected to be captured by its gravity on Friday, much-awaited dawn finally arrives after...
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Five interesting facts about the INS Vikramaditya
The Indian Navy’s newest and largest aircraft carrier has quite the history behind it. From long delays in procurement, heavy cost-overruns and even a Cold War style spy-game with NATO aircraft, its...
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India Leads The World In Thorium Research: Is This The Nuclear Fuel Of The...
It’s abundant, less radioactive than uranium, and cannot be weaponized or made to explode even by accident. It’s Thorium, and could well be the safe nuclear fuel of the future. What’s more is that...
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Cell Phone Radiation: Concealed, Omnipresent and Harmful
Did you know that our phone radiations are not only harmful for us but also harmful for the people living with us? Before buying a phone the things people consider are the camera, the screen size all...
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New Horizons: Exploring The Last Unexplored World Of The Solar System
Stephen Hawking, the Cambridge cosmologist united with the celebration sending congratulations via recorded medium, “Billions of miles from Earth this little robotic spacecraft will show us that first...
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Kepler 452b: Another Earth-Like Planet 1400 Light Years Away
People have been speculating for hundreds and thousands of years about life in the universe, other than on Earth. Discoveries, inventions have always been carried on by great scientists, astronomers in...
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Fun Fact: The World’s First Test Tube Baby Was Born Today
What is in vitro fertilization? It is the joining of woman’s egg and a man’s sperm in a laboratory dish. After fertilization it is then transferred to the woman’s womb.On 25th July, 1978 the world’s...
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Sunder Pichai: The Man Behind A Technological Renaissance
Sunder Pichai, the current CEO of Google, in his desire to make India a technological fulcrum, wants to introduce a whole new concept in India. He wishes to launch Project Loon in India soon.Now you...
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Pathankot Attacks And The After-Effects In A Nutshell
From January 1st to January 5th, India sat with hands joined in prayer when the Pathankot Air Base was attacked by 6 terrorists belonging to a militant group- Jaish-e-Mohammad.Another attack and more...
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