Researchers Recover World’s Oldest DNA
A new international study led by the Centre for Palaeogenetics in Stockholm has discovered ancient DNA from a 1.2 million-year-old mammoth. It is so far the oldest DNA ever recovered. …
Unique Lifeforms Found Under 3000 Feet Of Antarctican Ice
Although it has been a lot of years since we humans are living on earth, we haven’t explored a lot of places and haven’t found a lot of things yet. …
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Astronomers Discover A Rare Backwards Star That Breaks All The Assumptions
Discovering new stars and planetary systems is always of great interest to us. But it becomes even more interesting when we find some rare or unique kind of systems. New …
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Being A Woman In STEM | A Discussion With Falguni Paul
Being a woman in STEM is tough. In this episode of AtomsTalk Podcast, we discuss the difficulties a woman face in the field of STEM with a doctoral candidate, Falguni …
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Venkatraman Radhakrishnan
Venkatraman Radhakrishnan (18 May 1929 – 3 March 2011), was an internationally renowned Radio Astronomer and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He was Professor Emeritus of the …
How Do Our Cells Communicate? Researchers Find
Communication is important in all aspects of life. We have the ability to speak and that is how we communicate. But how do our cells communicate? A new research led …
You Can Cut Upto 20% Of Your Body Weight With This Drug
Reducing weight is one thing that most of us work on a lot. Here is good news. A new study involving University College London researchers has found that about 35% …
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Researcher Hacks Into 35 Tech Giants Including Tesla, Apple And Microsoft
A researcher has hacked into IT systems of some of the largest corporations in the world. Alex Birsan, a Romanian researcher has successfully assaulted Apple, Microsoft, Tesla, PayPal, Netflix and …
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Researchers Identify The Genes Which Shape Your Face
New research led by a University College London has found out genes which determine the shape of a person’s facial profile. The team found about 32 gene regions that influence …
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Researchers Develop A ‘Skeletal Age’ Calculator To Predict Bone Fracture Risk
A new study from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research has developed a computational model to calculate skeletal age, which is a personalized estimate of an individual’s risk of bone …
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Tesla Invests $1.5 Billion USD In Bitcoins And Will Soon Start Accepting Crypto Payments
Electric automaker Tesla on Monday announced that it has bought bitcoins worth $1.5 billion. Tesla bought the bitcoins for more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on their cash, …
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Archimedes’ Screw
The Archimedes’ screw, also known as the water screw, screw pump, Archimedean screw, or Egyptian screw, is a machine used to pull water from a low-lying water body. Water is …
A Virus Which In Fact Helps The Host During Unsupportive Weather
Viruses always create a problem. This is a normal conception that we have. But proving this wrong, new research has found out that a virus actually has been seen benefitting …
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Venus Flytrap Produce Measurable Magnetic Field
A team of interdisciplinary researchers from various universities has now shown that the carnivorous plant Venus Flytraps generate measurable magnetic fields. The team used an atomic magnetometer and proved that …
First-Ever Detailed Chemical Measurement Of Einsteinium
Einsteinium, as we know, is the 99th element in the periodic table. It is also a synthetic element which means humans can only create it and is not naturally occurring. …
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Wow!! High School Students Discover Four Exoplanets
Recently, 16-year-old Kartik Pinglé and 18-year-old Jasmine Wright have discovered four new exoplanets about 200-light-years away from Earth. With that discovery, they might become the youngest astronomers to achieve such …
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Prafulla Chandra Ray: Father of Indian Chemical Science
Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray (1861 – 1944), regarded as the Father of Indian Chemical Science was an eminent Bengali chemist, educationist, historian, industrialist and philanthropist. He established the first modern …
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NASA Discovers A Unique Six-Star System
A new research has found a peculiar star which is almost too extraordinary to be described. Stars can get into pretty interesting shapes and configurations, which are difficult to spot. …
Top 20 Most Famous Quotes By Max Planck
“Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination” — one of the famous quotes by Max Planck Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was …
A Simple Computational Method For Studying Genetic-Environment Interactions
A team of researchers from the Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell University’s Ithaca campus has built a simplified computational method for analyzing genetic-environment interactions and the way they influence disease …
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Scientists Use New Technique To Build Super-Hard Metals From Nanoparticles
In a new experiment, researchers from Brown University have created nanoparticles which help create super-hard metals. Traditional ways of hardening metal include many methods like bending, twisting, hammering, etc. These …
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Where Did Earth’s Nitrogen Come From? Study Finds
A team of scientists from Rice University has shown that one primordial source of Nitrogen, a necessary building block for life was close to our home planet. The isotopic signatures …
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Cytokine Treatment Cures Paralyzed Mice
New research has found out that paralyzed mice could walk again after cytokine treatment. The research team has used a “designer cytokine” to regenerate injured nerves in the spinal cords …
Study Finds How Individual Macrophages React To Different Stimuli
Researchers from Yale School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have used single-cell RNA sequencing in order to get a closer look on how individual macrophages react to different stimuli. So, …
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Researchers Build New AI Model To Analyze And Predict Viral Escape
Virus!! Vaccine!! Mutation!! These are probably three most heard words in recent times. But how are they related? Though vaccines are a boon to humankind and can develop immunity, viruses …
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