Sony Develops Battery That is Powered By Paper
Sony has unveiled the prototype of a unique battery at Eco-Products 2011 exhibition. This amazing battery concept gets its energy from shredded paper. And it is inspired by the insects which eat wood,...
View ArticlePlanets With Same Size As Earth [INFOGRAPHIC]
This infographic from space.com provides information about other planets that resemble our earth in many aspects. There are more planets adding to the list of those which are near to earth in size...
View ArticleFour New Exoplanets Discovered In First Four Days of 2012
The first four days of the new year 2012 have seen four new exoplanets added to the list of these heavenly bodies known to mankind. All of them are called “Hot Jupiters”. They are large hot planets...
View ArticleMolecules In Earth Atmosphere Help Cool The Planet: Research
Scientists have found a new molecule present in earth’s atmosphere, which is helping reduce global warming and thus is working to bring the planet’s temperature down. The findings have been presented...
View ArticleGraphene Discovered To Be Impermeable To Everything Except Water
Researchers at University of Manchester have yet discovered another amazing property of the 2010 Noble Prize Winning material, the Graphene, the thinnest and the strongest known material on earth. This...
View ArticleGraphene Makes Electron Microscopy of Liquids Possible
Graphene continues to make it s name in the world of science with the developments in areas that were not possible before. One such recent Image Credits: Alivisatos, Lee and Zettl research groups, LBNL...
View ArticleA Game to Understand the Theory of Special Relativity
Here’s something Science-lovers will love. A video game made by MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Game Lab to help in understanding Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity. Einstein’s theory...
View Article10 Things you know that are Completely False
10. Humans don’t ‘burst’ in Space. A lot of people think that without a space suit, one would ‘pop’ or ‘burst’. This is completely untrue and people are lead to believe this only because of movies and...
View Article10 Wallpapers for Science Lovers
It’s really hard to find good, high-quality science wallpapers. So, we collected 10 Hi-resolution science wallpapers in 1920 x 1080. You can resize them according to your needs or if you have a 16:9...
View Article‘Life’ Infused into Compounds
Note that the ‘life’ is put inside commas. Meaning it does not mean scientists made a living organism from non-living matter. The study was simply this, scientists flashed blue-violet light that...
View ArticleThis teen uses an iPhone to control Bionic Arm
Patrick Kane, 16-years old, lost his right hand as a baby to meningitis. Now, he is the first person to be fitted with the bionic arm; iLimb Ultra Revolution. The iLimb cost him £30,000 was developed...
View ArticleWatch the World’s Smallest Movie Made by Atoms
Interested in seeing the world’s smallest movie? No, it’s not the ‘shortest’ movie but really the smallest, down to atomic scale. Made by IBM and named “A boy and his Atom” is a 250-frame movie created...
View Article78,000 Apply to Live on Mars
Tired of this planet? So are 78000 other people. A non-profit Dutch company called “Mars One” has received over 78,000 applications in just 2 weeks (starting from 22 April 2013) from people all over...
View ArticleFirst Ever Photos of Chemical Bonding
Remember bonding from Chemistry? If you thought how all those atoms forming bonds conveniently was not real, you might want to have a second thought. Because for the first time ever, actual images of...
View Article10 Amazing Looking Crystals
When someone says “crystals”, the other usually assumes it as a shape similar to a diamond. Wrong! Feast your eyes on nature’s beauty. These are crystal clusters of elements and minerals. 10. Azurite...
View ArticleA DVD That can hold 1000 Tera Bytes!
Are you proud of your 500 GB or 1 TB hard drive? You might want to hold onto that pride because with the latest breakthrough in nanotechnology, a single DVD is now able to hold up to 1000 Tera Bytes...
View Article10 Common Science Myths
We all have knowledge or ‘facts’ from who knows where. But is it really knowledge? A lot of people just believe things just because they have ‘heard of them’. Most people don’t think about this but...
View Article10 Amazing Microscopic Photographs
Nikon held a worldwide contest called “Nikon Small World” where over 2000 photographs of the micro-world were submitted. None of these are photoshopped, all of them are brilliant photographs using...
View ArticleMIT’s inFORM lets you ‘touch’ over the air
So far, we’ve been able to transmit visual information and sound; two of the five human senses digitally. Touch, smell and taste are still pending… a bit. MIT has come up with a brilliant technology...
View ArticleAn Artificial Muscle that may allow Super Strength
A team of researchers at Berkeley Laboratory at the University of California have managed to design a micro-sized muscle that is about a 1000 times stronger than a human muscle and can catapult objects...
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