What do TikTok trends, Sri Lankans honking their horns invoking a certain black bird, catchy tunes that everyone hums, adding an ‘m’ between syllables of a word, “sad doge”, “distracted ... Read more
Science Weekly
Is The “Methuselah” Older Than The Universe?
A starry night is a night full of intrigue and mystery. Can you believe that there is a star that is older than our universe? By now the universe is approximately 13.8 billion years old but Methuselah is 16 billion years old. ... Read more
Insights On The Most Important Discussion Of Our Time
In the highly informative, yet accessible book “Life 3.0”, author Max Tegmark presents the developments, challenges and possibilities of superhuman AI, explaining the topics which form the basis of the discussion, while ... Read more
Pushing Back and Forth: Coupled Oscillators
In the physical world around us, we often talk about energy as a transferrable quantity. This transfer happens not only from one form to the other but also from one physical body to another. In this study of a back and forth ... Read more
Ordering The Disordered – Part 2
Understanding global warming and our heavy impact on it has never been more imperative than it is now. It has also never been easier to do so than it is in the present. And that is due to the hard work of three winners of the ... Read more
Ordering The Disordered – Part 1
Global warming is a term that we often hear but, do we really know who and what is behind it?
We tend to look at this topic superficially, sometimes in a detached manner, as if it does not ... Read more
Sense-sational Science: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021
What makes us who we are? This deep, philosophical question is one that mankind has been struggling to find answers to. Most argue that our lives are amalgamations of our sensory experiences – each of those providing a unique ... Read more
Predicting the future isn’t magic. It’s AI; Supervised Learning
“I am telling you, the world’s first trillionaires are going to come from somebody who masters AI and all its derivatives, and applies it in ways we never thought ... Read more