Medical sciences have come a long way. From indigenous techniques and herbs to sophisticated machines and complex medicines. Worldwide, these medicines are the only reason people live long and strong lives. But it’s not just the medicines that...
DARPA is investing $100 million in genetic extinction technologies. The Gene Drive program can control disease carrying insects. It may wipe out diseases like dengue, malaria, Lyme, West Nile, sleeping sickness, etc. The United States Department...
Since the emergence of the Hubble Space telescope, we have discovered many distant galaxies, thousands of exoplanets and even peeked in our past, but one thing that astronomers are still not sure about is how many stars actually are there in the...
Physicists discover a new form of matter called Excitonium, which was theorized 50 years ago. It’s made of excitons, particles formed in a strange quantum mechanical pairing. Momentum-resolved Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy (M-EELS) is used...
If you want to know more about the Sun, you are at the right place. You probably know that the Sun is ultimately the reason why we still have life on Earth. Without the Sun, not only humans, but other living organisms cannot survive. Lying at the...
Board games (like chess) are widely studied field in the history of artificial intelligence. Pioneers like Turing, Babbage, von Neumann and Shannon developed theories, algorithms and hardwares to analyze and play chess game. And in the last couple...
In November 2017, Japan unveiled it’s first quantum computer prototype that is opened up for free to the public over Internet for trials. With this machine, Japan has joined the race of building world’s most powerful computer with larger...
In today’s space edition we will bring you some of the absorbing facts about the lunar eclipse. Well, an eclipse occurs due to the dynamic positioning of the two celestial bodies i.e Earth and the Moon relative to the Sun. On Earth’s we...
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is set to launch its second lunar probe in March 2018. The unmanned mission, codenamed Chandrayaan 2, includes a lunar orbiter, lander and rover, all built by ISRO. It will be launched to the Moon on a GSLV...
In May 2017, Google Brain Team announced a new approach called AutoML. It’s a controller neural net for developing child model architecture, which can be trained to perform a particular task. In simple terms, it’s an AI capable of...
Physicist, electrical engineer, inventor and futurist Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856 in Smiljan (now Croatia). Apart from his famous invention of the alternating current, there are tons of different things about Tesla that will astound you...
A solar eclipse happens when the Sun, Moon and the Earth align almost perfectly with each other i.e, the Moon moves in between the Sun and Earth. Any beginner to solar eclipse would think that how a much smaller object like the moon could hide a...