Shallow, shallow is my heart, A void that yearns to be filled, But all I find is emptiness, A chasm that can never be stilled. I seek for things that do not last, For beauty that fades with time, I chase the wind, I chase the past, And leave true love behind. I am lost…
Category: New Age Technology
Plastic to Fuel
Researchers at Washington State University have developed an innovative way of converting plastic to jet fuel and other useful hydrocarbons. In their work, published in Chem Catalysis, they converted 90% of polyethylene to jet fuel and other hydrocarbons at 220 degree celsius. This is far better and efficient than any other process to convert plastic…
Male-fficent Mosquito
A company in the US is going to release 750 million genetically modified mosquitos in Florida Keys to solve an endemic! Is that endemic going to cause another pandemic? So why are they doing it. Apparently, a specific species of invasive mosquito is responsible for spreading diseases such as dengue, yellow fever, Zika, and chikungunya….
Quadruple Helix (DNA) Tracked Live
DNA, as we have known, from documentaries and sci-fi movies, is based on a double helix structure. However, scientists and biologists have known that a quadruple helix-structure exists, especially in cancer cells. In the past, attempts to learn the origins and function of these quadruple helix involved using a probe which either killed the cell…
Smaller brain does wonders!
Researchers at University of Michigan recently published paper in which they summarised that complex behaviour of insects is shaped and driven from social environment than brain size. Historically, complex cognitive ability and finer social skills were associated with larger brain size. More and more research now points to the fact that size does not matter…
Mesh Robots: Age of Transformers
Researchers have taken the next step in developing soft mesh robots that can contract, reshape and grab small objects. Read more below Source: Soft, Programmable Material Could Yield Mesh Robots
“Whites” were invented in America
I usually steer cleer of race related arguments/articles in my blogs, but i came across an article which shed new light on how the race of whites were formalized in history. Apparently the first inhabitants of America were blacks, and whites only started entering this continent as Europeans started arriving to the east coast of…
Machine Learning Fools Biometric Systems
NYU Tandon researchers create synthetic fingerprints capable of spoofing smartphone fingerprint sensors. Devices typically allow users to enroll several different finger images, and a match for any saved partial print is enough to confirm identity. Frankly, that is not how I envisaged these biometrics scans to work. Partial fingerprints are less likely to be unique than…
NASA Retires Kepler Space Telescope
After nine years in deep space collecting data—NASA’s Kepler space telescope has run out of fuel needed for further science operations. For those who have never heard about Kepler, it was NASA’s first planet-hunting mission. Kepler highlighted thousands of planets peppered throughout the cosmos. Its discoveries have shed a new light on our place in the…
Light holds the key to a Computing Revolution
Currently, computers use electronic circuits to compute and relay information. The word “electronic” suggests that electrons carry out this acitivity. However, electrons tend to lose information when things hots up. Remember those days when aircon were a necessity for having computers Now a research study has found a way into replacing electrons with photons….
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