Stefan Boltzmann Law
Stefan Boltzmann Law or Stefan’s law is an important law in thermodynamics. It relates the energy radiated by a blackbody to its temperature. It is…
Rachel Carson: The Finest Nature Writer of Twentieth Century
The sedge is wither’d from the lake, And no birds sing — John KeatsLines that influenced the title of ‘Silent Spring’ Rachel Carson, an American…
Scientists Develop a New Class of Materials For Optical Biointerfaces
A team of researchers from the College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University has invented an optical platform that will likely become the new standard in…
Is Time Travel Possible?
When we hear the phrase ‘time travel’, the first thing that we usually think of is travelling backwards into the past, perhaps to see our…
Researchers Identify a Brand New Type of Superconductor
A team of researchers from Cornell University has now identified a possible third type of superconductor, a g-wave superconductor. Until now, we basically had two…
A Computer Can Now Predict Your Thoughts And Draw Images Based On Them
A team of researchers at the University of Helsinki has developed a first of its kind technique in which a computer models your visual perception…
Why do Pregnancies Last Longer in Some Species than Others? New Research Explains
Researchers from The Francis Crick Institute have found the clock that sets the speed of embryonic development and discovered that the mechanism is based on…
Do Blind People Dream in Visual Images?
Yes, blind people do indeed dream in visual images. For people who were born with eyesight and then later went blind, it is not surprising…
Sun entered a new Solar Cycle, NASA confirms
NASA and NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) have confirmed that our Sun has entered a new Solar cycle starting from December 2019. This is…
Engineers Design a Wide-Angle Lens That is Completely Flat
A team of engineers from MIT and the University of Massachusetts at Lowell has designed a fisheye lens that’s completely flat. It is the first…
Researchers Reveal Secret of Plant Dietary Fiber Structure
Researchers from the University of Queensland and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden have uncovered the mechanics of how plant cell walls balance the…
Kirchhoff’s Laws
Kirchhoff’s Circuit Laws are two laws that help us analyze electric circuits in terms of their voltage and current. The two corresponding laws are hence…
Carl Sagan: A Pop Science Icon
I went to the librarian and asked for a book about stars; … And the answer was stunning. It was that the Sun was a…
Researchers Reveal Neurons That Guide Adaptive Behaviour
A team of researchers at the University of Zurich has revealed the neurons in the brain that guide adaptive behavior. Their new study that utilized…
Countries Have Missed All The Targets They Set Themselves To Preserve Nature
In 2010, 190 member states of the UN’s Convention on Biological Diversity committed to a battle plan to limit the damage inflicted on the natural…
A New Technique To Trick Photons Into Behaving Like Electrons
A team of researchers from the University of Exeter has found an elegant technique to create artificial magnetic fields, which can make photons behave like…
A Breakthrough in Non-Invasive Cancer Treatment
Researchers from Eindhoven University of Technology have announced a significant leap forward in a non-invasive method for cancer treatment Prof. Jan C.M. van Hest and…
The Fermi Paradox
The Fermi Paradox is a paradox dealing with intelligent extraterrestrial life. Put simply, there is a reasonable chance that intelligent life could have evolved somewhere…
Compton Effect
The Compton effect is a physical phenomenon that describes how X-rays interact with electrons. It is one of the pieces of evidence that led to…
Protein Sequencing Explained
Proteins are complex biomolecules that are found in all living organisms. They perform a wide variety of functions and are versatile in nature. Their diversity…
Why Blues and Greens are the Brightest Colors in Nature? New Study Explains
A team of researchers from the University of Cambridge has shown why intense, pure red colors in nature are mainly produced by pigments, instead of…
Sound Waves Can Now Replace Human Hands in Petri Dish Experiments
Petri dish experiments have led to several discoveries for science but recent research can make the whole process much better. How? Researchers from Duke University…
A New Algorithm To See Through Clouds, Fog, And Other Obstructions
Researchers from Stanford University have enhanced a hardware system (like the one used in autonomous cars) with a highly efficient algorithm that can reconstruct three-dimensional…
Novel Plant-Based Supercapacitor That Could Charge Devices In A Wink
Researchers from Texas A&M University have created a novel plant-based energy storage device that in the near future could even charge electric cars in a…
Researchers Announce Creation of New Type of M-DNA Structures
A team of researchers from Arizona State University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) has announced the creation of a new type of meta-DNA structures…