SpaceX’s dreams of creating a fully reusable launch vehicle is getting closer to fulfillment via the third test of their test vehicle - Grasshopper. The third and the most ambitious test of the vehicle took place on December 17,2012 when the Grasshopper took a 40 meter leap into the skies at their test facility in Texas – followed by a stable hover and smooth landing – was conducted without a hitch. The first...
SpaceX's Grasshopper successfully takes a leap towards reusability!
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
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Science Fact - 8
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Did you know that astronauts cannot belch. This is because there is no gravity to separate liquid from the gas in their stomachs.
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Doha Climate Gateway: Extended Kyoto Protocol
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP18) which extended for two weeks in Doha, finally came to an end with the favorable result. 194 countries have agreed to implement the second phase of Kyoto Protocol which is initiating from 2013 to 2020. The Doha round of talks mark the beginning...
Science Fact - 7
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
The Orangutan is the largest tree-dwelling mammal in the world.
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Science Fact - 6
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
The Stegosaurus dinosaur measured up to 30 feet (9.1 meters) long but had a brain the size of a walnut.
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Second-largest black hole found in NGC 1277
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Astronomers have found a giant black hole in a tiny galaxy, which is quite opposite of the general belief of scientists that the size of the black hole is perpendicular to the size of the galaxy it is present in. Our own galaxy, Milky Way, also hosts a black hole in the centre of the galaxy named Sagittarius A. The galaxy, NGC 1277, is...
Science Fact - 5
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Flea's can jump 130 times higher than their own height. In human terms, this is equal to a 6 feet person jumping 780 feet into the air...
Science Fact - 4
Thursday, November 15, 2012
The deepest part of the world's oceans is the Mariana Trench. It is located in the western Pacific Ocean. to the east of Mariana Islands.
It reaches a maximum depth of 10.911 km (with a variation of 40 m) at the Challenger Deep, a small valley in its floor.
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Science Fact - 3
Monday, October 22, 2012
The tallest tree ever measured in the world was a Eucalyptus tree in Australian forests.
In 1872, forester William Feguson spotted an extremely tall mountain ash (Eucalyptus regnans) near the Watts River, Victoria, Australia. The tree was reported to be 132.6 m in height, i.e., 435 feet.
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Science fact - 2
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
When Krakatoa erupted in 1883, its force was so great that it could be heard 4,800 kilometers away in Australia.
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Iris Scanning as Biometric!
Monday, October 15, 2012
After the recent reports about being used as UID (Unique Identification Card), iris scanning is again in news these days. A computer scientist from texas State university- San Marco, Oleg Komogortsev, is trying to develop a biometric system which can identify people by thier scanned iris and the way they move their eyes. Biometric systems...
Science Fact - 1
Monday, October 15, 2012
The total length of the blood vessels in a human body is 62,000 miles. If these are laid end to end, they would circle the Earth two and a half times!
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