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 in function is matched by …
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The Poiseuille Equation
The Poiseuille equation (also called Hagen-Poiseuille equation) is a fluid mechanical equation that helps us understand how pressure varies in a flowing liquid. Specifically, it deals with pressure drops in …
Big Bang And Age Of The Universe
The age of the Universe has been something that fascinated all of humanity from ancient history. We have, in each of our cultures, tried to find an answer to this. …
Dirac Equation
Dirac equation is a fundamental cornerstone of quantum field theory. It helps us understand the behavior of all spin 1/2 particles with mass such as electrons, protons, and fermions (matter …
The Higgs Boson
The Higgs Boson is an elementary particle in physics. In the Standard Model of physics, it is a reason that most particles have mass. It was predicted theoretically in the …
Arrhenius Equation
Arrhenius equation is an equation in chemistry that helps calculate how chemical reactions change their speed based on temperature. The Equation The equation states that Let us understand the terms …
CRISPR-Cas9 and Gene Editing
CRISPR-Cas is a prokaryotic (loosely bacterial in non-scientific usage) immunity system that helps bacteria defend themselves from infection by bacteriophages. Bacteriophages are a kind of viruses that attack bacteria. CRISPR …
Fermat’s Last Theorem
Fermat’s Last Theorem is one of the most intriguing problem of number theory. Legendary mathematician Pierre de Fermat stated it without any proof in 1637. In its earliest form, it …
Faraday’s Laws of Electromagnetic Induction
Faraday’s Laws are set of two basic laws which deal with electromagnetic induction. What is electromagnetic induction?Electromagnetic or magnetic induction is the production of an electromotive force across an electrical …
Gravitational Waves: Everything You Need To Know
Gravitational waves are one of the predictions of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, back in 1915. It took around a century, till 2015, for gravitational waves to actually be identified, …
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The Chandrasekhar Limit
The Chandrasekhar Limit is an upper limit on the mass of white dwarves, a type of star. A white dwarf star with a mass greater than this cannot exist stably …
Dark Matter and Dark Energy
Dark matter and dark energy are two of the most intriguing concepts of modern physics. Just like their names suggest, they are shrouded in an aura of mystery. While there …
Some science into our Dreams!
The weird animal having an elephant head, a giraffe’s long neck, and the body of a horse has been chasing you all the way from the mountain top to your …
Newton’s Universal Law of Gravitation
Newton’s Law of Gravitation is a theory that explains how all objects with mass interact with each other. It provides a mathematical framework to make quantitative calculations about this interaction …
Electronic Configuration And Its Rules
As we started digging deeper into the atom, we got to know that electrons can’t exist anywhere around the nucleus. We got to know that electrons are filled up in …
Genome Editing Technologies: A New Path to Genetic Engineering
Scientists were in constant search for efficient and precise genome editing using reagents that are simple to design as well as inexpensive to generate. Developing ways to make precise, targeted …
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Theory Of Relativity
Relativity (also known as the theory of relativity) is, in the simplest form, a physical theory that states that all physical laws are the same all over the universe. Starting …
The Bermuda Triangle: From Myth To Science
The Bermuda Triangle, popularly known as the Devil’s Triangle, is located on the western part of the North Atlantic ocean. This area is frequently traversed by ships and airplanes. This …
Nernst Equation
The Nernst Equation is used to find the potential of an electrochemical cell or an oxidation/ reduction reaction under conditions of changing temperature and concentration of the electrolyte. It arises …
Quantum Numbers
Our understanding of atoms, their structure, the electronic configuration has evolved over time. We understood that electrons can’t exist anywhere around the nucleus and there exists a proper electronic configuration …
Ohm’s Law
Ohm’s Law is probably one of the most well-known laws in electricity and physics. For students in electronics, Ohm’s law is as important as Einstein’s Relativity equation (E = mc²) …
Kohlrausch’s Law
Kohlrausch’s law, also known as Kohlrausch’s law of independent ionic migration, was established by the German physicist Friedrich Kohlrausch in 1875-1879. This law is in connection with the molar conductivity …
Tyndall Effect
When a beam of light passes through a colloidal solution, the path of the beam of light gets illuminated due to the scattering of light by colloidal particles. This is …
Hershey-Chase Experiment
The Hershey-Chase experiments were a series of landmark experiments in the development of biology as we know it. They helped establish the nature of genetic matter. As a result, we …
Nuclear Energy: The Benevolent Cousin of the Bomb
Ever since the discovery of the nuclear fission of Uranium by Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner in the late 1930s, it has been associated with weaponry. Unfortunately, due to this …
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