SciShorts: Chandrayaan 2 to be Cheaper than Interstellar

India’s flagship space project Chandrayaan 2 is set to be cheaper than Hollywood movie Interstellar. Unlike NASA’s missions, this project by the Indian Space Research Organisation aims at landing at the South Pole of the Moon. After landing, the rover will analyse rocks which are billions of years old and send back valuable data through […]

SciShorts: Researchers Develop Drones to Navigate through Traffic

Researchers at the University of Zurich and the National Centre for Competence in Research have developed an algorithm which allows drones to navigate through traffic. By utilising drone cameras, DroNet (the algorithm) can recognise obstacles and can make the drone avoid them. The highly advanced algorithm uses deep learning to analyse the image and move […]

SciShorts: SpaceX to Provide High-Speed Internet All Over the World

Following the launch of the Falcon Heavy earlier this month, SpaceX has moved on to its next venture – high-speed internet for the masses. Informally called Starlink, the project drives towards endowing the world with internet through satellites. SpaceX is to launch a Falcon 9 on Thursday, aboard which there will be two experimental satellites […]

SciShorts: NASA Discovers 95 New Planets

On Feb 16th, NASA revealed a colony of 95 new planets. This feat was accomplished with the Kepler telescope. Scientists went through the immense amounts of data sent by the telescope; dating all the way back to 2014. Since then, there have been about 275 “candidate” signals, which implies that each of them could have […]

SciShorts: Tesla Roadster in Space will Probably Collide with the Earth

A research from the University of Toronto states that the payload of the Falcon Heavy – a Tesla Roadster that is now floating in space – might collide with Earth or Venus. However, this will not happen anytime soon. Researchers ran simulations of what would become of the car hovering aimlessly in space. The outcome […]

SciShorts: Student Captures Breathtaking Image of a Single Atom

Of all the things that a photographer could capture with his camera, an atom will definitely not be in the list. David Nadlinger, a Ph.D. student, managed to capture an astounding image of a single strontium atom with his DSLR camera. Named “A Single Atom in an Ion Trap”, the image shows a pale, blue […]

SciShorts: China Tasks 60,000 Soldiers with Planting Trees

China is suffering severely from air pollution. To battle the ever-growing production of smog, the country has redirected 60,000 soldiers to plant 84,000 square kilometers of trees. Most of the troops will be sent to the most polluted province in China – Hebei – where the forest coverage is expected to grow to 35 percent […]

SciShorts: JAXA launches the world’s smallest rocket

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has surpassed frontiers in development of space technology as it launched the world’s smallest rocket on the 3rd of February. The rocket was JAXA’s SS-520, which was about 10 meters in length and about half a meter in diameter. The rocket carried a TRICOM-1R cubesat, containing radios and cameras, […]

SciShorts: European Rocket Ariane 5 Suffers a Major Setback

The Ariane 5 launched from French Guiana suffered a major error in its latest launch. The upper portion of the rocket fired the wrong way. Just nine minutes after the launch, the operators lost all contact with the rocket. Communication was then restored on the 25th of January after the payload was believed to be […]

SciShorts: Polar Bears are Rapidly Losing Weight

Climate change in the arctic region is now the prime reason for weight loss in polar bears, according to recent studies done by scientists. They blame global warming for the dwindling ice cover on the Arctic Ocean that bears need for hunting seals each spring. Researchers studied and observed polar bears for 10 days by fastening […]