3-D Printing Is Not Just Hype

3-D Printing Is Not Just Hype

A company in the Netherlands is building a bridge across a canal in Amsterdam using 3D-printing robots. It seems that such attention-grabbing headlines appear regularly to declare how 3D-printing is…
Seeing Jupiter In Daylight

Seeing Jupiter In Daylight

Have you ever seen Venus in full daylight ? It's a fun experience. Of course we are accustomed to see even a small crescent Moon in daylight -it is large and although of the same colour of clouds, it…
Clues Point To Sulfur In Earth's Core

Clues Point To Sulfur In Earth's Core

Researchers have found chemical evidence for the presence of sulfur in the Earth's core. They determined the composition of the core, which is inaccessible to direct sampling, by analyzing isotopes…
Culturing The Brain Connectome In A Dish

Culturing The Brain Connectome In A Dish

Mapping the human brain’s network of interconnections, known as the connectome is typically done with help from computational tools because recreating interconnections between different brain regions…
Pope Francis: The Most Scientific Pope Ever

Pope Francis: The Most Scientific Pope Ever

Pope Francis can claim many firsts; he is the first non-European Pope since 741 AD, the first from the Americas and the first from the Southern Hemisphere. Given his nuanced positions on science…
Einstein A Hero Again: He Saves The Quantum Cat

Einstein A Hero Again: He Saves The Quantum Cat

In 1915 Albert Einstein formulated the theory of general relativity which fundamentally changed our understanding of gravity. He explained gravity as the manifestation of the curvature of space and…
Gas rules

Gas rules

The picture of a central positively charged nucleus of an atom surrounded by negatively charged swarming electrons explains so much detail in the nature of our world.  This is known as the…