Here’s a quick test to check your tech-savviness. What cell phone do you use? Is it an ordinary one with buttons on the front? How many times in the last six months did you use the words “Apple iPhone“? Once? Hundred times? Sadly, my friend, you are outdated. More…

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December 1 was World AIDS Day - an annual landmark when we take stock of the current HIV/AIDS situation across the globe and assess how well or badly we are doing in the management of, possibly, the scariest disease in the world. More…

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It was born in the Late 1960s and early 1970s - the orphan theory found wandering the streets by Gabriele Veneziano, Yoichiro Nambu, Holger Nielsen and Leonard Susskind. More…

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The ProposalThe proposal is as exotic as it is audacious: Get on a train at New York City’s Penn Station and hit Paris, London or Brussels just an hour later. “From an engineering point of view there are no serious stumbling blocks,” says Ernst Frankel, retired professor of ocean engineering at MIT. More…

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Earlier this month researchers at the Flerov Institute of Nuclear Reactions in Russia announced the discovery of Element 118. Temporarily named ‘Ununoctium’ till the finding is verified and confirmed by other researchers, Element 118 is the heaviest element found yet. More…

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With Sony’s PlayStation3 and Nintendo’s Wii video game consoles going on sale in the US within two days of each other last week the video game market is set for a spurt of sales right in time for the year-end holiday period. More…

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