The rings of the Planet Saturn, within our solar system, have puzzled our astronomers since the time that they were discovered. The Explorer Spacecraft missions did provide some answers to some of the questions that resulted from the discovery of those, so…
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Nucleus is the central processing unit of the cell. It is called the brain of the cell. Using the same analogy, just like the brain stores all the information about our body and life, and facilitates the bodily functions centrally,…
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Albert Einstein is a renowned name not only among physicists and scientists but to the whole world. He was and is known as a genius. Einstein was a simple man. He was born on Friday March 14, 1879. In school…
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In eukaryotic cells, such as human cells, for example, the cell nucleus is the important organelle that houses the chromosomes. The chromosomes are the store of most of the genetic material of the cell (bar the mitochondrial DNA which is…
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Mitochondria are the power houses’ of the cell. Their main job is to produce energy required for the functioning of our cells. They are double membrane structures, and their shape and number varies depending on the cell type. Their membranes…
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Enzymes are the catalysts or chemical substances synthesized in living cell and responsible for metabolic activities within the organism. Subatances which react with the help of enzymes are called “Substrates” and materials produced as the result of a chemical reaction…
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In Geneva the CERN LHC is open for business. LHC standing for Large Hadron Collider and no, unfortunately it is not the world’s newest and largest bumper car park. It is a 27km ring of underground magnets designed to fire…
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Modern-day cloaking technology, who would have guessed? Granted, current techniques only render objects invisible to a single wavelength (or narrow range of wavelengths) of light, so true invisibility is still a few steps away, but the potential is there –…
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For millions of years humans have watched winged creatures soar high in the air above, and as many have themselves dreamed of one day escaping the bond of gravity to match this alluring aerial feat. Many with dubious fascination, binding…
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Birds use it. Bees use it. Boeing 747s use it. First devised by Daniel Bernoulli in 1732, the Bernoulli Principle would not be applied to flight for centuries, though it would become integral to understanding the force of lift and…
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