As the armies of novel coronavirus continue their relentless march across the world, conquering city after city, and country after country, one of the most vital assets in our hands to try and slow down their spread is to detect the...
India already has Brahmos, which is the world’s fastest cruise missile at present, with a maximum speed of Mach 3. One might then wonder, why we are striving to develop a subsonic cruise missile. In fact, most countries that have supersonic...
Since the first case of HIV AIDS was documented in 18 May, 1981, HIV, or the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, has killed more than 32 million people around the world, and even to this day, there is no cure for the disease...
Drone warfare is finally starting to come of age. While drones like Predator and Reaper have been used against terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan since the early 2000s, truly advanced drones that are stealthy, relatively fast and able to perform a...
Nanomachines have been in the minds of researchers since long. They were first conceived by Richard Feynman, who in his lecture “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom“, talks about macroscopic machines designed by us to create smaller replicas of themselves,...
Research essentially can be boiled down to one simple goal- finding the answer to your question, or seeking truth. All of research, be it in physical sciences like physics, chemistry, biology, in humanities, history, language, arts, or psychology, in commerce and...
The NATO air campaign over Yugoslavia, called Operation Allied Force, that lasted from from March 24, 1999 to June 10, 1999, has a lot to teach about how certain tactics used by the side at the receiving end of the air...
Metal surfaces and bacteria have a love and hate relationship. While bacteria easily live on some metal surfaces, they die on others. And interestingly, which metal surface they will survive on doesn’t just depend on which metal it is, but also...
As the COVID19 pandemic ravages the world, its turning out to be one of the most devastating pandemics of our times. However, there have also been other outbreaks caused by coronavirus (the same virus behind COVID19) in the past. The 2002...
Climate change is expected to negatively affect agriculture through heat waves as well as unseasonal rains. To ensure that this doesn’t result in a food crisis, researchers around the world are racing to develop crop varieties that are resistant to climate...
