-By Akshat MishraCentre for Excellence in Basic Sciences, Mumbai It is always a fun exercise to play with your image in the mirror. Inspite of being right in front of you, it tricks you like nothing else. If you raise your right hand the image raises it’s left. But if you raise your hand up, the image also raises it up, not down. So what is exactly happening over here? After all the mirror is just a plane surface. How…
No matter whether you liked or hated mathematics in your school, I can say you must have loved fancying about knowing the divisibility tests of 2, 3, 5 & 10. And if you were among the brainy students you also knew the divisibility tests of 4, 6, 8 & 11. But, what about the divisibility test of 7? Do you know about it? In today’s article, we’ll talk about the previous and newly discovered divisibility tests of 7. The divisibility…
-By Sushrut ManeBlogger, SciLynk The story of the longest-lived robot in the solar system…. Mars has always been a source of great curiosity and attraction for mankind. From philosophers, who saw it as a symbol of bravery and vigour, to astronomers, who have tried to find life on the planet, it has always managed to garner extreme interest. And so, in an attempt to know more about our neighbour in the solar system, NASA had launched countless probes, fly-bys and…
Image by Bernd Hildebrandt from Pixabay During summers what’s the most common thing every one of is more worried off apart from heat and sweat? Sunburns isn’t it? If you are a kid, your mother must be constantly reminding you to apply sunscreen lotions before you leave home. If you are a girl, you never forget to cover your face with a stroll. And if you are a guy, well I believe you hardly give about sunburns. Well, I am…
Now a days the whole of internet is flooded with fitness articles, blogs and videos. At present there are various fitness models on social media with hundreds and thousands of followers inspiring an entire generation of physically fit and healthy individual. The fitness has emerged as an entire industry over the past few decades. Some people are too dedicated and train really hard to maintain a good & agile physique. Well, one of the major parts of the of their…
India is rapidly advancing in the field of space technology and has become among the most powerful space giants. This was not an overnight process. Scientists and engineers have been working on these projects from quite a long time. This process has given birth to various astronomical observatories across the Indian sub-continent. These observatories are the wonders of science and technology with state-of-the-art facilities and equipment. In this article, I will be talking about 10 topmost world-class observatories of India.…
In this modern world of music industry and passion an entirely new tread of Beat-Boxing is at a swift rise. In recent years it beat-boxing has evolved to whole new level. From Beat-Box battles to independent Beat-Boxers on YouTube/on streets, it is no more confined to a trend or talent, it is becoming a culture. At present there are various communities promoting and evolving beat-boxing all across the world. The fact that beat-boxing a form of music which doesn’t require…
All of us has visited a general physician several times or at least once. There were two most interesting events for me each time I visited a general physician. Firstly, the rapid movement of the stethoscope over my back along with me asked to breathe heavily. And secondly, the moment he asked me to put tongue out wide and do, ‘Aaaaaaaa’ while he flashed a torch down my throat. Earlier, I believed that the physician only checked my throat in…
-By Anoushka SachdevaCentre for Excellence in Basic Sciences, Mumbai Best science starts with simplest questions which no one bothered to answer as they seemed too obvious. When mammals reproduce why do they require a male and female parent? The first thing that strikes out mind is the need to restore normal chromosomal number. But if that’s the only thing then why not 2 eggs or two sperms fuse to give rise to a healthy offsprings? Quantity isn’t Everything Prof. Azim Surani,…
During my childhood, I have observed my father taking some extra time to catch up with the radio every time we had plans to go out to a faraway destination. Earlier it appeared to me as one of his daily habits similar to that of checking out the daily news broadcasts. But, apparently, I as I grew up I realized he used to wait for the traffic updates of the major roads of our town. As a pre-teen, for me,…