Recent findings by ENCODE regarding Junk DNA has drastically reshaped our understanding of the genome and is challenging established dogmas in evolutionary theory. When the Human Genome Project finished mapping the human genome in 2003 it effectively unearthed the language
To ask Facebook generation kids to imagine a world without social networking is like asking them to imagine a world without air or water. Ask us trentagenarians (a big fangled world for “old people”) to try and imagine the same,
Of Collisions and Collusions Let us consider this… science, as a journey in history, was free of capitalist forces. There were no J P Morgans limiting Nikola Teslas. There were no American Health Insurance Companies inhibiting stem-cell research. But such
The e-commerce landscape in India is evolving rapidly. According to a report by Forrester, the e-commerce industry in India is set to grow the fastest within the Asia-Pacific Region at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of over 57% during
On July 4, C.E.R.N physicists publicly acknowledged the existence of the fabled Higgs boson, and the world cheered. The ‘God particle’ is being popularly hailed as the most significant discovery since experimental confirmation of Einstein’s theory of relativity. The physicists
IPv6 is the most significant development – of tectonic calibre, but minus the earthquakes – in the history of the Internet since its inception. And, it transpired at 00:01 GMT on June 6, 2012. Don’t worry; you don’t need to
“Namaste #India, your time has come to trash the current government and install a new one. Good luck. #SaveTPB #Anonymous #Censorship,” tweeted Anonymous, after attacking the websites of Supreme Court of India and Congress in protest against the ban on
While the country is celebrating the launch of 4G services by Airtel in Kolkata and Bangalore, the latest study by Pyramid Research reveals that it will not have any major impact on the country’s telecom ecosystem. Since there aren’t
One of the greatest success stories in recent years when it comes to the study of animal behaviour is the first published study on the use of satellite telemetry to track the open-ocean journeys of manta rays, the world’s largest