“It starts with light, and ends with light, and in between there is darkness.” Aryabhata, the ancient Indian astronomer and mathematician was the first to describe how eclipses occur and provided the first mathematical procedures to calculate eclipse dates in his book Aryabhatiyam. His computational paradigm was so accurate that 18th century scientist Guillaume...

First the basic definitions: Creationism / Intelligent Design: A belief that there exists a supernatural being (God) who created all existing life forms including Dinosaurs. He designed us all just like the way a software designer designs the software. Evolution: A science that talks about how life evolved from simple molecules to present day complex multi cellular organisms...

Latest news on Earth is that after the Indian moon mission Chandrayaan is said to have found traces of water on Moon, now NASA is going to bomb the moon today to determine the approximate amount of water deposit there! Bomb the moon? Yes, smash a two ton kinetic rocket bomb made up of an empty Centaur rocket on the Moon at about 5600 mph creating about a five mile wide...

About 30 Kms away from the IT capital of India – Bangalore – lies a small village called Byalalu. Here if you ask the villagers, about what their village is well known for – the reply you receive will be – we get good rainfall here, people here work very hard and the farmers grow abundant agricultural crops…. Next if you ask them, what has...

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there. Just imagine how nice it would be if you would be able to access all those different systems at office, your ATM, etc without having to remember all those usernames and passwords! Imagine if there was no need for you to go for a regular medical checkup to make sure...

It all started long long ago.. 40,000 BCE… In the dense forests of africa a group of pre-historic humans are working hard all day long, lifting rocks, moving boulders, breaking and rearranging them, clearing the entrance of a cave, to build a new home for themselves. Humans then used to do all the physical labour themselves. Each one of them might have had the physique...

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star How I wonder what you are? All your light from the world so high Why isn’t it visible in the night sky? Okay, this was my attempt to poetically state the Olber’s paradox Olber looking at the night sky started wondering, and came up with a reasonable paradox of his times that, considering all the light being continuously received...