Exploring From Quarks To Quasars
Gene-editing technology is arguably the fastest developing branch of science in the 21st century. The invention of the CRISPR-Cas9 method began a revolution in gene-altering because it’s both cheaper and more efficient than previous techniques. …
What Is CRISPR-CaS9 Genome Editing Technique, And Why Has It Become So Controversial? Read More »
Always imagined as encompassing the sun, the star closest to our planet, a Dyson Sphere is, more generally speaking, a hypothetical megastructure – an enormous self-supporting artificial construct, which is entirely wrapped around a star …
The Brilliant Concept Behind a Cosmic Megastructure to Capture All of the Sun’s Energy. Read More »
The Landings of SpaceX’s Flacon 9 On August 18th, 2020, SpaceX pushed its achievements to unseen boundaries in the realm of reusable launch systems by successfully landing one of its Falcon 9 boosters for the …
Theoretical Background of ITER New technologies often use devices and substances that are very different from what classical physics first revealed to scientists. The fourth, lesser-known state of matter, is called plasma and consists of …
In a recent article published in October 2020 in Scientific American, Anil Ananthaswamy reported on the findings of David Kipping, an American astronomer from Columbia University. His study suggests that it is not a wild …
New Research Has Shown There’s A 50-50 Chance That We Live In A Simulation. Read More »
NASA’s Voyager Program has always maintained its aura for being one of the most exciting missions ever undertaken by the space agency. Since their launch in 1977, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have never failed …
Are You There?! NASA Sent A Message To Voyager 2 After A Long Radio Silence. Read More »
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission The recent asteroid study and sample-return mission OSIRIS-REx (an acronym for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer), operated by NASA and manufactured by Lockheed Martin, is now set to depart …
This article on machine learning in astronomy is a guest article by Krishna Bhutada, an Engineering student from Pune, India. What Is Machine Learning? Machine learning is an application of artificial intelligence (AI) that provides …
How Is Machine Learning Soon Going To Change Our Modest Understanding Of The Universe? Read More »
On October 5, 138 years ago, in 1882, was born Robert H. Goddard, an American physicist from Massachusetts who became known for his works in this field of rocketry, and eventually acknowledged as the father …
Remembering The Dreamer Whose Designs And Experiments Took Humanity To Space. Read More »
This is a guest article by Abha Vishwakarma Half a century has passed since humankind stepped onto the Moon. ‘One step for a man, one giant leap for mankind’, in the words of Armstrong. Yet …
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