by Shubhkarman Singh Sandhu In a corner of 1860’s Sweden, Anders Jonas Ångström studied the composition of the Sun and the Aurora Borealis, using a technique he pioneered called spectroscopy. By comparing the wavelength of light emitted by them with the wavelength of light emitted by an individual elements’ atom after absorbing energy, known as…

by Smit Bachan About a century ago, Einstein and Rosen (ER) wrote a paper that introduced the idea of a “bridge” connecting two black holes, i.e. a “wormhole.” That same year, Einstein, Rosen and Podolsky (EPR) published a paper on quantum entanglement, which confirmed information exchange between two distant quantum particles, which Einstein called “spooky…

by Sumaya Beri Once upon a time, anywhere from 5 to 7 centuries ago, a mass epidemic killed hundreds of people. Their main symptom? Dancing. In Strasbourg, 1518, Frau Troffea started dancing in the middle of the street. She was unable to stop. Even when exhaustion overtook her, she continued to dance for days with…

by Sumaya Beri In 1953, Henry Molaison (often referred to as H.M.) approached neurosurgeon WB Scoville with a case of epilepsy. What followed changed the trajectory of neuroscience forever. As was common in those days, Scoville performed a lobotomy, removing Molaison’s medial temporal lobes, including the hippocampi (on both sides of the brain), parts of the…

by Sumaya Beri In the reel world, brain to brain communication is commonplace. In real life, not so much. Can telepathy then be considered just another impossible and unrealistic cliche overused by science fiction series and movies? Not completely. It turns out, a dilute form of telepathy is actually possible in the real world, no…

by Veer Ramchandani Recently, I read several articles about human cloning and wanted to delve deeper and find out why no one has been able to successfully clone a human being. Let me take you back to the year 1997, when British biologist Ian Wilmut announced the birth of Dolly the sheep. She was the…

by Sanvi Monga Being written on a huge spaceship whizzing through the Cosmos 30 times faster than a rifle bullet, called the planet Earth, which is a nanoscopic part of The Universe, the fantastic holocaust of energy and matter, this article is going to speed you through the stellar world of the prospective Milkomedia, the merger…

by Sara Kaur Ahuja Oxygen: is it what keeps us alive, or is it the reason for our death? Everyone on this planet is marching irrevocably and inevitably closer to death. But what if the gas that’s supposed to keep us alive is slowly setting our bodies on fire? Theoretically speaking, oxidation is burning. As…

by Sahima Mittal While the realm of technology is expanding at an exponential rate, one particular field that has seen unprecedented growth is that of Artificial Intelligence, or AI.  AI has already had a major impact in areas such as healthcare, transportation, and entertainment. Apple Watches that alert emergency services when they detect a sudden…