Back in 1600 BC, the anonymous writers of the Edwin Smith Papyrus, which contains the earliest written records of cancer, might not have even imagined in their wildest fantasies about the research that is being carried out by scientists at a molecular level in the era that we live in. By …
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The road to the future cannot be built without tapping into energy sources which abide by the rule of abundance. The more years we depend on ancient plants and animal dead bodies, the sooner we will realize that it’s quite literally, a dead-end. This is especially true when considering the …
Read More »The Ancestor that Evolution Forgot: Homo naledi
On September 10, 2015, scientists unearthed a discovery which would make us reconsider the entire process of human evolution, starting from the very lineage from which we have descended as humans. Within a cave system in the wilderness of South Africa, known as the “Rising Star” cave system, scientists discovered the …
Read More »The Cosmic Monster that is 12 Billion times the Size of our Sun
Scientists recently discovered one of the most massive black holes that have been observed till date. This is a literal cosmic monster, which just does not stop sucking the gases, matter and light around it. On the other hand, do we have actually have to be afraid of it, or …
Read More »CRISPR Technology: Designer Babies and Mutants, here we come!
With the advent of the Recombinant DNA technology, the way we looked at DNA changed completely. Now 45 years later, the technology has become so powerful that our outlook towards our genetic codes has undergone yet another paradigm shift. Today, instead of referring to big and fancy words such as …
Read More »You can now time-travel through your medical history with a blood test! – Meet VirScan
The age of medicine and healing has been evolving and adapting to new and advanced technologies and procedures in the recent years. There was a time when people used to die from ailments as commonplace as cold and fever. On the other hand, we witnessed some of the most breath-taking …
Read More »The Blast from the Past: The Winged Dragon of China
I’m pretty sure that if you have seen the movie “Jurassic Park” and must have marvelled at the intense cunningness and ferocious grace of the quintessential Velociraptor. Well, imagine being face-to-face which such a creature and it would almost immediately elicit responses which may result in a loss of bladder …
Read More »Top cleavage moments for Science in 2015!
The title is just an experiment! The word ‘Science’ appears to pull you all wonder-junkies to read this! Wonder-junkie – what a term coined by the great Carl Sagan! The word ‘cleavage’ appears in the title as a sad joke on you all who’re here thinking about Deepika! ‘cleavage’ – …
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