The great physicist Niels Bohr celebrates his birthday today and Google honours him with a doodle.
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Elon Musk, the co-founder of PayPal, SpaceX and Tesla Motors, envisions a future for electric cars and now comes up with a glittering Superchargers for all! This is what the future might look like.
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Researchers have created the world’s first light controlled switch, allowing them to create light controlled gates. The nanowire switches promise to speed up today’s computers manifold! Here’s the lowdown on the deal.
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Flying in the face of well-established theory of cosmology, a group of researchers are hedging their bets on a model that suggests that the Universe actually froze out of a soup and space-time was formed! Well…
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While some advocates of Cliodynamics are convinced that non-linear mathematics and large amounts of data can make history predictive, most people aren’t falling into that kind of thinking. History repeats itself, but how accurately does it?
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For the first time, it is being seen that some insects – the ubiquitous aphids – might be able to photosynthesize. This startling discovery has left many questions in its wake, the most important one being – why do it?
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A collection of some of the world’s most haunting photos ever taken. Not only will they speak volumes, they can simply blank someone out! Just swim in the sea of artistic creativity in capturing the real world.
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Thought the surface of the sun was hot? Think again and think big. Scientists colliding lead ions have created temperatures which are unbelievably large. It’s a world record, in fact.
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The source of the giant mysterious floating pumice raft has been pinpointed to be a certain underwater volcano. The sleuthing techniques are ultra-modern.
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A huge island of pumice was found floating in the South Pacific, near New Zealand. How did this mysterious ‘orphan’ island form? And how is pumice intimately linked to the very origin of life on Earth?
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Just like Earth, Mars might also have tectonic activity, says an UCLA professor. So it’s the whole package – moving plates, fault lines and, maybe, even Mars-quakes.
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The bright and beautiful Perseids meteor shower has a peak tomorrow night. It’s the brightest and most prolific of the meteor showers. Do NOT miss this one!
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