Share Aakriti Gupta: Through ages, since the birth of mankind, man has been intrigued by the possibility of living on forever. Maybe it’s a part of being human, as we strive to live beyond the span of life meant for us. This is the reason why immortality is of major importance in our myths and legends, where [...]
Share Liu Siyu: Laozi said “I have three treasured objects: kindness, thrift and daring not to precede the world. Although this adage is spoken highly of, as a matter of fact, it is no more than an amulet. Daring not to precede the world is daring not to explore and strive for originality, which is a big enemy [...]
Share Akshat Rathi: Researchers in Delhi at the National Institute of Plant Genome Research have developed a tomato that has a shelf-life of 45 days. A. Datta and S. Chakraborty with co-workers report in the paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that they identified the ripening-specifics enzymes and silenced those genes through [...]
Share Anjani Kapoor: Why do I need or want a new social network? Like you, 400 million users of Facebook are asking the same question. Making a belated entry in the social networking circle, Google has officially launched the ‘Buzz’. With the interesting note, ‘Go beyond Status messages’, Google has made Gmail Social. To keep buzzing in [...]
Share Akshat Rathi: “The daughter of Virata… (was) exceedingly afflicted by grief on account of the death of her husband…they all feared that the embryo in her womb might be destroyed.” – The Mahabharata (~500 BC). How much is decided for us even before we are born? This quote from the Mahabharata, and many other examples from literature, reiterate [...]
Share Akshat Rathi: Strong materials like ceramic are brittle while ductile materials like metals are weak. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have developed a material that has ceramic-like strength and metal-like ductility. They have achieved this feat through the use of zirconium based metallic glasses and nano-sized pillared structure. Metallic glass is by no means a new [...]
Share Praveen Kumar: Rural India is the future. From Government to the multinationals like Uniliver, rural India is the target. The untapped market for multinationals and the vote bank for the Government, both lies nowhere but in the remote places of this country. Advancing technology is one tool that can bridge the gap between the Urban India [...]
Share Akshat Rathi: Physicists have not yet found a way to alter the Earth’s speed of rotation to give us a thirty-hour day, but sleep researchers may have found a way to get an eight-hour sleep in just two hours—letting you cram in six more wakeful hours a day. The key to this superhuman ability is polyphasic [...]
Share Avnish Gaurav: Making online friends is like pouring water into a porous sieve. The friendship will never be cemented without a proper meet-up. This does not mean that a meet-up guarantees a lasting friendship but at least it will stand a better chance of surviving. There are people who get furious when asked about the authenticity of [...]
Share Monadhika Sharma: Apple launched its most awaited product – the tablet e-reader ‘iPad’ which will be available for purchase after late March. It is like a grown u iPod with a lot more features. So much of technology thrown into a single 10” product, it is bound to become everyone’s envy and the owner’s pride. Wifi [...]
