The Mysterious Dwarf Planet Ceres

“The successful launch of Mission Mars has enhanced the interest of common people in space mysteries. There are many unsolved, unknown stories asteroids in the space. I have gone through many such true findings using NASA and other sources. The present story covers presence of a new asteroid near...

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The next “play” of technology

Technology. What is it? I like one of the definitions that Alan Kay has for technology. He says “Technology is anything that was invented after you were born”. Yeah, give it a thought. Sounds just about right. Also it sums up a lot of what we're talking about these days. Danny Hillis actually has...

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Smart healthcare

A long time ago, a revolution took place in the field of healthcare. Human anatomy was recognized as a science, and doctors operating on people were started to be held in high esteem. Healthy living habits were generated and spread through the masses, but unfortunately were never fully realized. Living in India, we know that even though our country is one of the leading nations in healthcare research,...

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Build Green

“Anybody can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house.” Charles F. Lummis, United States journalist and Indian rights and historic preservation activist. But then again, our ancestors, blinded by the glare of industrialization and modernization,...

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Green Energy

Google co-founder Larry Page is fond of saying, that if you choose a harder problem to tackle, you’ll have less competition. This philosophy has taken a plentitude of their conceptions to the moon: a translation engine that knows 80 languages, the world’s greatest search engine, self-driving cars,...

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On an epic journey of Science: Interstellar 2

In the last part, we got to know about the astounding science behind the wormhole. But that’s not all, Interstellar’s greatest spectacle is its blackhole and the accretion disk surrounding it. A major plot point of the movie is the time dilation effect experienced near the blackhole. Kip Thorne,...

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Why we need self driving cars

After being enlightened about Google’s new self-driving electric car, I spent my whole afternoon cheating on FIFA whilst reading about this god-sent technology. Instead of a steering wheel and pedals this battery-powered electric vehicle has...

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When Poop became Water

One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.With this philosophy, Bill Gates, the philanthropist has taken up the task to end the misery of billions of people when it comes to clean drinking water. But how does he do it and that too in the cheapest way possible? BY TURNING POOP INTO WATER! ...

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The wonder material

Curiosity driven research-that’s what led to the inception of the wonder material on a serendipitous evening in 2002, when Dr. Andre Geim was pondering about Carbon. He contemplated about how ultra thin layers of Carbon might behave under experimental conditions. Unequivocally, Graphite was the most...

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The Internet of Things: Key to a techno centric community

The first time I heard the term ‘The Internet of Things’ (IoT), I thought I had made a mistake and somehow missed out a portion of a sentence that talked about the internet and an unrelated thing. It turned out to be a good thing though, as the term stayed in my head till I could find a way to figure...

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Hues of a Technocentric Community

There’s a reason that those with orthodox inclinations have fallen far behind the liberals or the ‘Techno Centric’ on the technology front. We read Wired or Digit or any gadget blog and note how definitively liberal the publications are—pro-science, pro-progress and pro-net neutrality. We are not...

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On an epic journey of Science: Interstellar 1

Whether you actually agree with the science or not, Interstellar is generally considered a masterpiece. A visual treat with truly great acting and story. But that is not all Interstellar is. The visual treatment of the blackhole isn’t made out of pure imagination, though the depiction is unlike anything...

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