A Beautiful Idea: Why Explore Space?

It’s good to be home! After a week sweltering in China for work and turning into a human puddle in 80% humidity, it’s nice to be back in Delhi… where I can swelter and turn into a puddle in 70% humidity…  Anyway, my heat-woes aside, I’m kicked to be sharing this with you folks something…

Conservatism, Racism and Right-wing a result of Low IQ?!

This is an article I came across just now, can’t believe I’d not seen it before, but it definitely made for some interesting reading – especially since these days we seem to have a dramatically higher amount of friction in numerous countries between the right wing and the rest of the political spectrum. For the…

Upgrading your immune system against HIV?

A gene therapy technique developed using mice that ‘upgrades’ the immune system to resist the HIV virus has been successfully trialled in humans. Some people are born with a very rare mutation that protects them from HIV by changing the structure of their immune cells. The therapy involves extracting a sample of HIV patients’ immune…

NEW FIFTH FORCE OF NATURE?

We’ve always understood there to be four fundamental forces of nature; gravity, weak and strong nuclear forces and electromagnetic, but a new breakthrough in particle physics means we may be on the path to discovering a fifth “force of nature”. So what is this fifth force? The fifth force is based upon “long-range spin-spin interactions”…

Spray-on Skin-gun! It’s Real! (Knowledge Bomb)

The skin gun is not science fiction—it’s a prototype medical device that literally sprays skin cells onto burn victims to re-grow skin. Old methods like skin grafts took weeks to heal; the skin gun needs about an hour.