Have you ever caught yourself staring at the street traffic lights changing their faces red-yellow-green-again-and-again? With their boring routine, despite of all the colors, today’s traffic lights have gone out of date long time ago. However, the future of these old iron poles we like to call traffic lights is becoming more and more bright [...]

Scientists have located a giant 13-billion year old galaxy at the edge of the observable universe. Detecting this huge galaxy was a challenge because of the massive quantities of light coming from the black hole, and if you think you spotted two problems in that sentence, read on. The galaxy, which is 12.8 billion light-years [...]

Scientists have successfully levitated mice in the laboratory, in an experiment which may help research into space travel. Using powerful magnets, the creatures were held in a zero-gravity like setting inside a tiny canister, where – after a little acclimatisation – they floated around inside their cage. The researchers, working at various American institutes on [...]

All Australians could be implanted with microchips for tracking and identification within the next two or three generations, a prominent academic says. Michael G Michael from the University of Wollongong’s School of Information Systems and Technology, has coined the term “uberveillance” to describe the emerging trend of all-encompassing surveillance. “Uberveillance is not on the outside [...]

You might think that your modern PC screen has a pretty high resolution, but reality is a quadrillion times better – a hundred trillion dots per inch, can you imagine? A collaboration between Fermilab scientists and a hundreds of meters of laser may have found the very pixels of reality, grains of spacetime one tenth [...]

To demonstrate a new method for fabricating three-dimensional living biological structures, researchers at the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Industrial Science (IIS) have created a 5-millimeter tall doll composed of living cells. According to an announcement made on January 22, the researchers created the tiny figurine by cultivating 100,000 cell capsules — 0.1-millimeter balls of [...]

Hira Ratan Manek was born  in 1937 in Bodhavad, India, was raised in Calicut, Kerala, India, where he had his Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of Kerala. After graduation, he joined the family shipping and spice trading business and continued working there until he retired in 1992. He had been interested in sun since [...]