Sometimes to figure out ourselves, we often have to take a step back. According to an article in the Science Daily, the distant barred spiral galaxy NGC 1073 may help us to better understand our own Milky Way galaxy as a similar galactic model. Talk about universal themes!
I’m going to be starting a photo blog, ‘Snapshots in science.’ After all, aren’t pictures worth a thousand words? Take a look a look at the efficiency of these ants! According to an article in Science Daily, “Political and economic theorists could learn lessons from studying how an ant colony allocates food resources, according to the authors of a new [...]
Here are photos of the Helix Nebula, a.k.a. the “Eye of God,” that I mentioned in my last post as gracing my collection of computer wallpapers. Eerie, isn’t it?
One of my favorite computer wallpapers is an eerie and beautiful turquoise and gold image of the Helix Nebula, famously known as the “Eye of God.” As a kid, I was always mind-boggled by the outer space and in those quintessentially curious and fickle years of my childhood, I often played fancifully with the idea of becoming an astronaut and [...]
"While Watson and Crick grace many of the historic photos of molecular biology for their discovery of the iconic double-helix that revolutionized much of the thinking in the field today, we must pay great tribute to Jacob and Monod for explaining what Watson and Crick did not..."
I might have turned eighteen, but I was thirteen again only several weeks ago as I was going through old fantasy books that had cradled my once wild imagination. I was sadly thirty just this morning as I woke up with a prematurely sore back. While the time travel of science fiction might certainly remain improbable, our everyday mental time [...]
When we think of computers, we often think of the multitude of advantages—wide dissemination of knowledge with an access to virtually anything and everything, easier communication that makes even a difference of thousands a miles a difference of nanoseconds, a new array of entertainment that takes us away from the stresses of everyday life. Undeniably, computers have become the epitome [...]
Time is the intangible, mysterious fourth dimension. From H.G. Wells to Harry Potter, the very notion of being able to journey through time is chilling. If we could go back in time, we’d be able to live our sweetest childhood memories, take a tour through history, or change our most painful mistakes on the most fantastical scale. We could very [...]
Can you imagine what would it be like to bend light in such a way that you are rendered totally invisible? Imagine evading Voldemort’s clutches, winning an intergalactic battle, or at the least, easily slipping into class whenever you’re late. But of course, invisibility is absurdly impossible – or is it? We can refract, diffract, and polarize light. We now [...]
