How an Ancient Piece of Earth Rock Ended Up on The Moon
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 11, 2022
The six Apollo missions that landed on the moon from 1969 to 1972 brought back several hundred kilograms of rocks from the lunar surface. Sc...
Showing posts with the label Science & Research
How Rubber Ducks Are Helping Scientists Chart The Oceans
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 2, 2021
In early January 1992, the container ship Evergreen Ever Laurel departed Hong Kong for Washington. Among the millions of things that Ever L...
Johann Josef Loschmidt And Avogadro’s Number
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 22, 2021
Johann Josef Loschmidt is a name that might not ring many bells, yet everyone who took chemistry in junior college had surely come across Lo...
Pitch Drop Experiment: The World’s Longest Running Lab Experiment
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 17, 2020
The pitch drop experiment began in 1927 when Professor Thomas Parnell of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, set out to dem...
OncoMouse: The Mouse That Disrupted Science
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 17, 2020
In 1988, the US Patent Office awarded for the first time in history a patent for an animal to the Harvard University. The U.S. Patent Numb...
Meteor Burst Communication
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 16, 2019
Everyday billions of space rocks crash into the earth’s atmosphere and disintegrate before they reach the ground. This produces two main eff...
The World’s Largest Vacuum Chamber
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 6, 2018
At the 6,400-acre Plum Brook Field Station complex near Sandusky, Ohio, stands five large test facilities operated by NASA to test various a...
Honoring Animals Used in Research And Testing
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 8, 2018
The United States’ National Academies of Sciences estimates that as many as 22 million vertebrate animals are used every year in the United...
The Electronic Ears That Listen to Secret Nuclear Tests
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 29, 2016
Twenty years ago, the world's first Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) of 1996, that prohibits nations from conducting any kin...
Campbell–Stokes Recorder: A Simple Device That Measures Sunshine
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 28, 2016
This crystal ball located outside Darwin Airport Meteorological Office, in Darwin, Australia, doesn’t look into the future, but provides inv...
The Elusive Gigantic Jets of Lightning
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 2, 2016
The most common kind of lightning observed from earth discharges from cloud to cloud or from clouds toward the ground. The more elusive form...
Beehive Fences: Using Bees To Keep Elephants Away From Crops
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 13, 2016
Protecting crops from raiding elephants is not an easy task for Africans farmers where wild elephants often roam free, until a group of Brit...
Satellite Images or Microscopic Photos?
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 3, 2016
While going through my daily reading list, one particular image posted on the Tumblr blog Daily Overview, which publishes high quality satel...
The First Flower Blooms in Space
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 19, 2016
A bright orange zinnia has grown for the first time in space, in zero gravity, and without soil. The zinnia, an edible flowering plant, was ...
Bacterial Art on Petri Dishes
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 8, 2015
The American Society for Microbiology launched its first ever Agar Art contest, inviting microbiologists to unleash their hidden creative ge...
Body Farms: Outdoor Research Facilities for Studying Decomposing Bodies
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 7, 2015
Less than forty years ago, our understanding of how the human body decomposes was limited. Much of what was known came from ancient studies ...
The Surreal World of Neutrino Detectors
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 27, 2015
Neutrinos are one of the fundamental particles which make up the universe, but not in the way electrons, protons and neutrons are. These par...
3D Art Exhibition Allows Blind People to ‘See' Masterpieces by Touching Them
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 11, 2015
The Prado Museum in Madrid has open up a new exhibition called “Touch The Prado” that invites blind and partially sighted people to touch an...
Researcher Grows Microscopic Flowers by Controlling Crystallization
Kaushik Patowary
May 31, 2013
Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have found a way to shape microscopic crystals into complex and beauti...
Astronaut Sandra Magnus Cooks in Zero Gravity
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 13, 2012
Food for astronauts working aboard the International Space Station usually come precooked and packaged in such a way so that it can be eaten...
