The cold war between the US and Russia ended half a century ago. But it paved the way for Space exploration for the year to come. On 12 April 1961 Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin made history by becoming the first human to journey into outer space, achieving a major milestone in the Space Race. Then the … Read more
Solar conjunction is the period when Earth and Mars, in their eternal march around the Sun, are obscured from each other by the fiery orb of the Sun itself. Like dancers on either side of a huge bonfire, the two planets are temporarily invisible to each other. During this period the daily communication between antennas … Read more
For too long, the public conversation around plastic has been narrowly focused on plastic waste in the ocean. While marine debris is indeed a serious part of the problem, this limited focus leaves too much of the story untold. Plastic isn’t just a problem when it enters the environment as waste. Rather, plastic pollutes at … Read more
The world’s connectivity needs are changing. Global mobile data traffic is expected to multiply by 5 before the end of 2024. Particularly in dense urban areas, the current 4G networks simply won’t be able to keep up. That’s where a new G comes into play. With 5G commercial networks being switched on, the first use … Read more
The illness goes bump in the night may not be just a patient’s imagination. Doctors have sensed for centuries that many diseases actually do get worse at night and science has begun to confirm this impression. Fevers are often worse at night. The same is often said about asthma, arthritis and the flu. And although … Read more
Supermassive black holes are thought to be at the centre of most galaxies, and they are huge. The Milky Way’s own supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, is about 4 million times the mass of our sun. But scientists have just spotted two absolute behemoths, that dwarf Sagittarius A*, and they are on a collision course. … Read more
You have probably heard that carbon dioxide is warming the Earth, but how does it work? Is it like the glass of a greenhouse or like an insulating blanket? Well, not entirely. The answer involves a bit of quantum mechanics, but don’t worry, we’ll start with a rainbow. If you look closely at sunlight separated … Read more
Triton is an exceptionally unusual, although often forgotten, moon. It has so many unique characteristics, it makes it one of the most interesting objects in the Solar System. But because it is the largest moon of Neptune, the planet furthest away from us, it also means that we have only visited it once, very briefly, … Read more
On the 21st of December 2015, SpaceX made history by landing their first Falcon 9 booster back on land. After years of development and testing, SpaceX was one step closer to dramatically reducing the cost of spaceflight. Since then, over 45 boosters have been landed with over half of them being reused. But how many … Read more
It was previously believed that we stopped creating new brain cells once we became adults. Science has proven this to be false and coined the term Brain Plasticity. The brain is flexible, everything we experience is constantly changing and shaping our brains to some degree. The hippocampus an important part of the brain, responsible for … Read more
Our immune system has a whole arsenal, like macrophages, cytokines, t-cells and many more, to fight off an infection. But when it comes to some diseases, the way the body defends itself can have unintended consequences. In the case of Pneumonia, the immune system’s response can be very lethal hence earning it the nickname the ‘captain of the men of death.’ … Read more
Space travel calls for a lot of creative solutions and space agencies invest a ton in developing technology that’s the best of the best. But astronauts aren’t the only beneficiaries. Space technology is all over, in unexpected places like memory foam mattresses and those cool clear braces for straightening teeth. Space science gets applied in … Read more
Today we’re going to talk about a very important topic. And that topic is HIV and AIDS. Human immunodeficiency virus or HIV is one of the incurable STI or Sexually Transmitted Infection. While some of these STIs are easy to treat once identified, others like HIV have no cure. Once you are infected, you have … Read more
Have you ever kept track of how much time you spend looking at a screen? Like, actually log what you are doing and for how long? Well, that’s what I did over the last few days. And on an average day, I spent about an hour on Instagram, way too much time on Facebook, over … Read more
The horseshoe crab is a living fossil that has called Earth it’s home for almost half a billion years. It’s outlived dinosaurs and survived mass extinctions and ice ages, but today it’s facing a new threat. Their adaptations have worked with the way the Earth has changed and it’s only in recent years with humans … Read more