Albert Einstein: What I admire most about your art is its universality. You say not a word, yet, the world understands you! Charlie Chaplin: This is true but your fame is even greater! This great universe praises you when no one understands you
Eight-year-old Brazilian girl Nicole Olive is set to become the world’s youngest astronomer. Searching for asteroids as part of a program associated with NASA, she attends international seminars and meets with top Brazilian scientists. Oliveira’s room is filled with solar systems, miniature rockets, and images of the sky on two large screens on her computer…
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics will be shared by three people. Half of the award goes to Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann, who have done critical research on climate and global warming. The other is the Italian physicist Giorgio Parisi. Sukuro Manabe holds a PhD from the University of Tokyo, Japan and is currently…
Kovid’s harassment has been going on for more than two years. Most of us have heard of quarantine and some have experienced it. Being alone is a big problem for many. But listening to Collins’ story is enough to know that none of the isolation we have experienced is anything to go by. Did you…
The most popular image in space history in the United States is from the challenger (STS-41-B) mission launched from the Kennedy Space Center on February 3, 1984. Astronaut Bruce McCandless II is engaged in the first untethered spacewalk, very high above the Earth. What frightens a man the most is the emptiness of space and…
In 1961, Wally was the youngest member of NASA’s astronaut crew. She was 21 years old at the time. Valley was a member of the space travel program ‘Mercury 13’. But in the end, NASA decided not to send the group of women into space. Wally Funk, who lost his chance to be born a…
The Van Allen Belt is an atmosphere in which high-energy charged particles are blocked by our Earth’s magnetic field. The radiation belt was discovered in 1958 by James van Allen, a physicist at the University of Iowa (USA).What are particles?The Van Allen belt has an outer belt and an inner belt .The outer belt is…
In the late 1800s, animosity between Edison, a spokesman for direct current (DC), and the George Westinghouse-Tesla alliance in favor of alternating current (AC) became known as the ‘current war’. . Edison’s company argued that DC was good for commercial use. Westinghouse, on the other hand, spread the word that AC was good. However, in…
A surprise is about to set in. The Earth 300 is more than just a luxury ship, the Earth 300 is a movable laboratory complex. The boat will have a crew of 450 people, including 22 labs, scientists from various disciplines, environmental activists and a handful of wealthy tourists and staff. Only 40 tourists will…
