Hey pa,We talked on the phone briefly about voila; the new ‘pdf’, I called it. It’s an interactive web application, where you can ‘submit’ your work, publishable on a server. The front end and the back end are separated and the front end is an interactive page, where someone can explore your data or whatever else python program…
An Influenza virus is typically about the size of 70 millimicrons or a thousandth the width of a single strand of spider-web. To reproduce, viruses should be able to pass on their genetic message and often an enzyme to translate that message, the viral polymerase. The polymerase enzyme is crucial in bringing single monomers or…
As featured on Brainwave|Amar Chitra Katha Have you ever wondered why we get hiccups and why they’re so hard to get rid of? Is there a way out? The part of our brain that is signalling us to hiccup is the brainstem. This is the same brain segment that directs swimming amphibians such as frogs…
“The people who were putting up millions of dollars were asking my father, ‘So, Captain, what do you expect to find?’ and his answer to those people who were about to make major commitments was, ‘If I knew, I wouldn’t go.’” Jean-Michel Cousteau, 2005
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/at-scientific-american/2014/09/21/putting-science-in-action-in-swaziland/ When Google announced that there would be a science in action award for the Google Science Fair 2012, I wasn’t quite sure what it meant. Aug 2014, 3 days and 10,000 kilometers from Bangalore my brother Rohit Fenn and I, Amit, stepped out on our first visit to the African continent. It…
This Podcast throws a little light to the dark side of nature in an attempt to try and embrace the fact that we still part of nature even with our dark sides. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/170350985″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /]
“We are watching Lazarus arise from the dead, step by exciting step,” says the leader of the Lazarus Project team, Professor Mike Archer, of the University of New South Wales, in Sydney. This project is among the forefront of research today in trying to bring back to life creatures that have been extinct. Though named…
It is possible to implant a human fertilized egg into an ape and have them bear the child and research is being done to stretch it to even in a pig. However It hasn’t been researched upon enough and human cloning (which is what this falls under) will not happen for a long while. There…
Hey there folks, I’m a Molecular Biologist I’d like to take you on my mission to bring the science from the journals I can access and from all the sources i can gather, to bring it to the people and bring it to the open. So count this as a student’s blog. I don’t hold…