Tag: Science
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Air Pollution-II. Particulate Matter
PM stands for particulate matter (also called particle pollution): It is the sum of all solid particles and liquid droplets found suspended in the air. These complex mixtures include both organic ( mainly natural hydrocarbons and synthetic organic compounds) and inorganic particles( usually heavy metal elements like lead and mercury and other toxic non-HC compounds), dust, […]
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Women in Science- Indian Scenario
In India, when a girl child is born the parents feel disappointed even in this technical era. Even now parents go for sex determination centers with a hope of hearing a ‘good news’ – the birth of much awaited boy child! The reasons of this bizarre activities of parents worth a survey wherein many parents […]
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Birth Of Commercial Aviation: Pan Am
In the history of Commercial Aviation, there is no airline more influential, important, and better known than Pan American World Airways. It was not the first American passenger airline, but it represented a new adventurous image of aviation in the world. Pan Am’s history is inseparable from the life and career of Juan Trippe, the company’s founder […]
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Medicine In The Future!
Medical Technology has advanced far enough with robotic surgery to Nanotechnology based Cancer Cure, But What will the future look like? Here let us have a brief insight into the health care in the future!! 1) AUGMENTED REALITY The digital contact lens patented by Google aims to change the course of diabetes management by measuring blood […]
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Undulate
As I am grown now, reached a point in life where I do not care about what people think of me. Rather, I spent time remembering the time of my life when I was more conscious about other people of my life, friends, neighbours, strangers or simply, people, what they will think about me if […]
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The ‘clutch’ of consumerism
The stories roaming around the corners nowadays are mostly about the crimes committed by teenagers or minors. I am getting perturbed by this kind of news as I am directly related to the young generation as a mentor. A few days back we had to deal with an incident where a senior student stabbed a […]
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Nobel Prize 2017: Physics
Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne were awarded the 108th Nobel Prize in Physics “For their decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves” Rainer Weiss, a professor of Massachusetts Institute of Technology was awarded the one half of the honor along with Barry Barish and Kip Thorne […]
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Nobel Prize 2017: Physiology or Medicine
This year the 108th Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Jefferey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young for their “discoveries of Molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm also known as The Biological Clock”. Their discoveries explained, “how plants, animals and humans adapt their biological rhythm so that it is synchronised […]
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NASA’s 10 Most Popular Space Explorations! [Part 1]
10. Pioneer Pioneer 10 and 11 launched in the year 1972 and 1973 respectively, were the first spacecraft to visit the solar system’s most photogenic gas giants Jupiter and Saturn. This space exploration project was conducted by the NASA Ames Research Center in California. Pioneer 10 became the first spacecraft to traverse the Asteroid Belt […]
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City of Joy
I could not post anything for a week as I was travelling. I had a chance to travel to Kolkata, the second largest city in India. Kolkata is the capital of the state of West Bengal in India. It’s one of the most densely populated city and known as “City of Joy”. Other names are […]