In the current era, imagining a world without data is impossible. As technology has evolved, the past couple of decades have seen an advancement in the type, transfer, and most importantly, storage of data. Before going onto these new revolutionary methods of data storage, let us first take a brief look at the history of data storage and how it has evolved...

Consider the following three situations:

1. You are a tomato farmer whose crops are threatened by a persistent species of beetle. Each year, you spend large sums of money on pesticides to protect your crops. How do you save on your expenses as well as your crops...

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iGEM is an MIT-based competition in which students from all over the world compete to make genetically engineered components referred to as BioBricks™. Through these projects, they can make a variety of creations, such as bioindicators which detect substances in various places and let the individual know that about the constituents of a body...

Medical science has done wonders for human life throughout its history, and even today, it continues to tackle sicknesses of all sorts, the latest of which is bone and joint cancer. With 0.4 deaths per 100,000 people between 2011 from 2015, this particular type of cancer has emerged as a looming peril. However, humankind has not succumbed to this source...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) – the successor to the landmark Hubble Space Telescope – has been delayed, to 30 March 2021, for the third time this year. The delay is in response to a report issued to NASA by an Independent Review Board. The report put to light some glaring human errors amongst other hardware problems. As a result, the development cost has...

While most people cannot stand the sight of numbers, it is well worth noting that mathematics plays an important role in the natural world. Just a little bit of research will yield hundreds upon hundreds of different numbers that are unique in one way or another, carrying special properties that might not be apparent at first. Let us, therefore, look at a few such interesting numbers...

The 9th of July 2018 will be a day that will go down in the history of Pakistan, marking the launch of two satellites from China's Jiuquan Satellite Centre. This is not only a technological feat for the Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO), but also serves as a means to improve political relations between the two neighbouring nations...

Imagine a world where a genome is in your hand, and you are turning its genes on and off just like your fan switch. Envision a land of fantasy where you are changing the colour of your hair as if it was a dress. Picture that you are sitting on the ground and trying to rewrite your whole genome. Who would not jump at the chance to do so...

The world watched in awe as SpaceX accomplished a feat – one that no one had ever done before.

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We have witnessed many launches which have taken humans to not just the moon but beyond. And with every one of those takeoffs, viewers fixated their eyes on the shuttle...

In the world we live in today, the consequences of climate change are very real. The oceans have grown thirty percent more acidic than they were during the industrial revolution. Sea levels are rising at an average rate of 3.4 mm annually. The nineteen warmest years ever recorded all occurred in the last twenty years, with 2016 being the warmest....

The subject matter for today comprises of Vertically Aligned Nano Tube Arrays and the color black. More concisely, we will be talking about Vantablack. The darkest substance to ever be made by humans, the material absorbs 99.965% of incident light, reflecting so little that it is often described as the closest thing to a black hole that we will ever see...