DOES INDIA RESPECT ITS SCIENTISTS ? At a party the other night the discussion came around to vegetarianism. Someone said that non vegetarians tend to be more violent than vegetarians. This sparked an intense debate. At one point I said that...

GOALS VS SIDE EFFECTS—AN EYE OPENER A young man went to Gautama Buddha and sought the Master’s guidance to achieve Enlightenment, The conversation—that in my opinion must be required reading for anyone– went roughly as follows: YOUNG...

Scientists in Australia have developed a new gene therapy vector that uses the same machinery as viruses to transport their cargo into cells. David Jans, from the Nuclear Signaling Laboratory at Monash University in Victoria, says that...

The next big thing scientists’ vision to tame and understand is tornadoes. Organized by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Science Foundation, called the Operation Vertex2, it will be a research project...

Imagine a lab where robots are carrying out all researcher activities, without the slightest of intervention from lab assistants or legendary brains. Developed and tested for the reason, robotic scientist Adam, with embedded artificial...

Security is a prime issue, which everyone in the consumer satisfaction division is trying to cater to. These fellows aren’t from the department to say, but they vision to keep you safe both in home and office. Having developed a coating which can...

If like most of us here you too thought diamonds were only found in mines, it sure is time for a revised thought then. Diamond could be found in labs. Yes, a team of Mexican scientists have worked out a way wherein heated vapor (from 40%...

In recent years Moore’s Law, the idea the computing power will double every eighteen months, has seem less an amazing sign of progress and more an immense brick wall we’re speeding towards - with recent advances like one-atom...

Times come when liberal minds need vision. Creativity flows, but ideas don’t reflect it. In the modern day, where maneuvers in the electronic world are targeted towards consumers, we feel the other sections need thought too. Emphasizing on the...

For hundreds of years they’ve been considered man’s best friend, and now it seems dogs have been around longer than thought.Scientists have discovered the oldest-ever remains of dogs dating back 31,700 years - that’s 221,900 in...