The human brain is designed to do things that even machines cannot do, from solving complex mathematical equations to making important decisions. But sometimes even our powerful brain gets fooled easily. How? As we know our brain uses several human senses to judge something and react according to them. So technically, it just takes a pair ...

The Cassini mission was a collaboration between NASA, ESA and ASI (Italian Space Agency) to send a spacecraft to study Saturn and its moons and rings. Launched on 15th October, 1997, the spacecraft was active in space for over 18 years, of which it spent 13 years orbiting Saturn (entered in Saturn’s orbit on 1st ...

Over the last decade or so Mars has been the center of attraction for space agencies and private companies. Private firms like SpaceX have even openly expressed their desire to one colonize the red planet. But these planned expeditions to the planet have delayed for certain reasons. Many personalities including the veteran astronaut Buzz Aldrin ...

While looking for planets with life sustaining qualities, we have just found a planet where we do not want to go. An international research team has recently discovered a distinctive characteristic of an extensively studied exoplanet known as WASP-12b. The study shows that the extra-solar planet reflects absolutely no light which is making it appear as a pitch ...

Scientists at MIT develop a new technique to make plasma fuel hot enough in order to produce significant nuclear fusion power. While using nuclear fusion to power offices and homes might still be a way off, this new plasma marks a big step towards fusion power. It has brought limitless (almost) clean energy one step closer ...

Biomedical engineers at Wits University in Johannesburg, link human brain to the internet in real time. They have named the project “Brainternet”. It streams brainwaves on the internet, turning the brain into a IoT node on the World Wide Web. IoT stands for Internet of Things – linking any machine (having off and on switch) to the ...

A team of researchers at the University of York might just have solved the mystery of the origin of DNA. The team showed that how molecules from the interstellar origin, brought here by meteors could likely be building blocks of DNA. Their study found that amino nitrates, along with molecules found in interstellar ice prompt ...

Our universe is expanding – all matters in the universe are gradually drifting apart. It was discovered by Edwin Hubble in 1931 while he was studying the far away galaxies. In 1998, humans came to know that the expansion is accelerated – universe seems to be expanding at an increasing rate. To explain this phenomena, scientists proposed ...

A team of astronomers has recently detected the existence of a rare mineral known as titanium oxide in the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet. Designated as WASP-19b, the exoplanet is situated at 815 light years away from the Earth in the vela constellation. The finding was done using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory. The ...

Hoya Corporation, Tokyo based company, unveiled its Hard Disk Drive prototype made of glass, which could push forward the development of high storage HDDs. They are now encouraging other manufacturers to ditch aluminum and use glass substrates. Over the last couple of years, the rate of improvements of hard drive density has significantly reduced. Although ...

Scientists at the University of Houston have achieved a milestone in stretchable electronics, which can be used as an artificial skin to give robotic hand a sense of touch. This allows the robot to differentiate between what’s cold and what’s hot, while providing different advantages to tons of biomedical instruments. The new approach for creating ...

First conceived in 1996, the revolutionary James Webb space telescope is now less than a year away from its launch. Initially, the space telescope was scheduled only to observe Exo-planets, but according to the recent announcement by NASA, the JWST will also collect important information about Europa and Enceladus – two of the most likely candidates to ...