The Science Behind Sleep

We spend about a third of our lives in slumber. Before advances in neuroscience and biology, it was believed that a sleeping person is a passive, dormant being. Now we know that our body, especially our brains work over-time during our sleeping phase, furiously making and breaking neural connections. Sleeping is not just an act of retreat…

ByyshashankOctober 17, 20150Comments

Space

Can we Colonise Titan?

Mankind has been unrelenting in its efforts to search for extra-terrestrial life. Somehow, asking 'Are we alone?' generates a unique emotion every time you bring it up. Innumerable spacecrafts have been deployed to look for life (more than 150 at last count) and research the surface and atmospheric conditions of worlds yet unexplored. The…

ByyshashankOctober 15, 20150Comments

Biology

Real life Inception: Is Shared Dreaming Possible?

The first thing that may come to your mind when I mention shared dreaming is probably Inception. Undoubtedly, the movie from Christopher Nolan was fascinating. It also asked us a very interesting question - is shared dreaming possible? Or is mutual dreaming destined to remain science fiction? Before we explore the plausibility of dream sharing,…

ByyshashankSeptember 14, 20150Comments

Science

Antarctica Holds Multiple Lessons For Humanity

Antarctica has long remained an isolated continent. Textbooks in school don't tell us much about it, and only a few careers involve anything to do with the icy continent . For a long time, it has conjured only one visualisation to us – plain white. Plain white is not far away from the truth. Antarctica…

ByyshashankSeptember 11, 20150Comments

Space

Magnetic Wormhole: Now Possible

Einstein's Theory of General Relativity allows magnetic wormholes to be a possibility. But no one has ever observed a wormhole yet. Black holes were theorised to exist as a result of General Relativity , and later observed as our tech improved. Our own Milky Way has one at the center called Sagittarius A*. Wormholes however, remain elusive…

ByyshashankAugust 31, 20150Comments

Space Technology

Human Extinction: Alarming Causes and Consequences

Thanks to multiple billion years of evolution, the human race has now become indomitable in a million ways. Homo Sapiens have stayed on the face of this planet for 200,000 years, having achieved the unique position of altering the planet as we want. We're ahead of every other species by a huge margin, and our prowess…

ByyshashankAugust 25, 20150Comments

Science

Quest for Immortality: The War Against Ageing

Immortality isn't a feeling meant for human experience. There's literature that gives you very rosy pictures - when you see the sun set in the ocean, you do feel immortal. When you see the brightest of stars in the vast black sky, you do feel immortal. But back to reality though - ageing, and by…

ByyshashankAugust 11, 20150Comments

Space

Is this life real?

Is our life real? Are we truly living? Or are we just segments of computer code? Wake up Neo. There's isn't just one answer to this. In fact, we currently do not have a perfect answer. Physicists are engaged in a deep debate on the nature of our reality, with strong arguments supporting the…

ByyshashankAugust 5, 20150Comments

Space

Time Dilation: Our Satellites Are Traveling Through Time

Relativity is more than a hundred years old. The year 2015 was the International Year of Light. The title isn't exaggerated focus - Relativity effects our daily life in fundamental ways. Einstein's Relativity theory essentially tells us that all our satellites in outer space are travelling through time. The proper term for this is…

ByyshashankJuly 31, 20150Comments

Physics

Solar vs Nuclear Power: What Energy Future Are We Headed for? (Updated 2023)

As the world grapples with the increasing demand for electricity, two major contenders have emerged as potential solutions - solar energy and nuclear power. In this blog, we explore the key differences between solar vs nuclear power and what implications they have for our energy future. As humans, we have appointed ourselves as saviors of…

ByyshashankJuly 26, 20155Comments

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The Science Behind Sleep

Can we Colonise Titan?

Real life Inception: Is Shared Dreaming Possible?

Antarctica Holds Multiple Lessons For Humanity

Magnetic Wormhole: Now Possible

Human Extinction: Alarming Causes and Consequences

Quest for Immortality: The War Against Ageing

Is this life real?

Time Dilation: Our Satellites Are Traveling Through Time

Solar vs Nuclear Power: What Energy Future Are We Headed for? (Updated 2023)

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