Innovations that touch the lives of the common man. Not research on black holes, not Big Bang, not the arrow of time. That was the focus at EmTech 2010, a conference on emerging technologies held in Bangalore recently. A microfluidic chip based...
ASTRONOMY Physicist Christopher Graney has revealed that Galileo got the distances of stars too short by a factor of thousands much like astronomer Simon Marius, who also mistook Airy disks as stars. But their conclusions of the solar system were...
Fish use UV patterns to tell species apart
If you’ve seen one damselfish, you’ve seen them all. That may be true for people, who have a difficult time telling species apart.