Science & Space
Famous astronomer Carl Sagan commented we are in a period of “… technological adolescence.” At this period in time, humans have existed only 0.0015% of the total time since the universe was created. That is over ...
Psychologists have always pondered over the subject of love. Love may be categorized and characterized in many ways, one of which is maternal love. Harry Harlow was one of the first psychologists to understand the ...
“It’s said that once you’ve seen a green flash, you’ll never go wrong in matters of the heart.” Ever since Jules Verne included the green flash phenomenon in his popular science-fiction novels, myths about it ...
What happens when you return from where no man has ever gone before? You must toe the bureaucratic line and go through customs. In 2009, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Service website marked the ...
World War II (1945) brought two ideologically opposed nations, America and Russia (the Soviet Union or USSR) to join hands in favour of the allied forces. But their ideological differences made them wary of each ...
A crater on the dark side of the moon is named after a Chinese official and poet, Wan Hu, who sought to reach the stars back in 2000 BC. He is regarded as the first ...
IT WAS ON the 10th of April 1901 in Dorchester, Massachusetts when Dr Duncan MacDougall and his team of four other doctors selected six dying patients for an experiment to determine the weight of human ...
Amidst the deadly Coronavirus pandemic that has struck the entire world, Donald Trump, the President of the U.S., signed an executive order on April 6 that has a far-reaching impact on international relations and outer ...
We have all read or watched movies about time-travellers; people who travel back in time or into the future by some unexplainable medium or device. For example, various types of ‘Time Machines’ as famous, generic ...
A NASA backed study that took place in 1975 gave rise to two space colony form factors- the Bernal Sphere, and the O’Neill Cylinders. A third concept also arose from the same study which was ...
