නිදහස් අධ්යාපනයේ පියා වශයෙන් විරුදාවලිලත් සී. ඩබ්. ඩබ්. කන්නන්ගර මහතා නිදහස් ... Read more
Science and Technology
කොළඹ විශ්වවිද්යාලයෙන් කෘෂි තාක්ෂණය පිළිබඳ නව සොයාගැනීමක්
රටක සංවර්ධනය උදෙසා අත්යවශ්ය සාධක අතුරින් කෘෂිකර්මයට හිමි වන්නේ ප්රධාන තැනකි. "රටක මව් දයා - ... Read more
සීකා වෛරසයෙන් වැඩිහිටි මොළයට ද බලපෑම්
සීකා වසංගතය මෑත කාලීනව ලොව පුරා පැතිර ගිය බරපතල අන්දමේ ප්රතිඵල ඇති කරවන රෝගයකි. මෙහි වාහකයා ... Read more
Gravitational Lensing – Wonders of the Universe III
Weak lensing
In many cases the lens is not strong enough to form multiple images or arcs. However the source still be distorted, both stretched and magnified. The fact is that, there is some dark matter in between us and every ... Read more
Gravitational Lensing – Wonders of the Universe II
Strong lensing
Strong lensing is visually, the most stunning form of gravitational lensing. Above iamge shows strong lensing effects in Abell 1689 cluster captured by hubble space telescope. The lensing effect is strong enough to ... Read more
Names for the newest elements
The 4 newest members of the periodic table were known to us earlier as Ununtrium (atomic number 113), Ununpentium (atomic number 115), Ununseptium (atomic number 117) and Ununoctium (atomic number 118). Now they will have those tongue twisting labels (given ... Read more
Juno reaches Jupiter
“And yet it moves. What Galileo saw through his telescope, I captured on approach to Jupiter” tweeted @NASAJuno, on 4th of July 2016, as Juno Mission successfully arrived at Planet Jupiter’s orbit after ... Read more
Antibiotics, not just pills…
Seated in the open canteen, sharing a nice a chat with one of our batch mates, I was struggling to go through my breakfast. A chat is always a good mode of motivation to forget that unique “canteen taste” and to get some food in.
“…I take two ... Read more