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…

by Neel Mehta There have been some major strides in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the past decade with software like the infamous ChatGPT gaining popularity. With all the attention currently surrounding the field, almost everyone is familiar with what AI is. However, a term which not many people are familiar with is…

by Kavya Malik & Simrit Kaur What if one could alter their appearance? Avoid having a genetic condition passed down to them? Make themselves immune to a life-threatening disease? That’s just a fraction of the potential of genome editing, and its unlimited possibilities could allow it to save and enhance the lives of millions worldwide.…

by Kabir Datta

by Chaitanya Sharma NASA’s new telescope, The James Webb Space Telescope, was launched on 25 December 2022 and bears the name of James Webb, an influential figure who was appointed by President John F. Kennedy to lead the space agency during the 1960s. A total of 10 billion dollars went into the project, with 9.5…