What shape is the Universe?

Is the Universe open or closed? Read more here to find out.

19 galaxies discovered with missing dark matter

‘Most of a typical galaxy is invisible. This elusive mass, known as dark matter, seems to be an indispensable ingredient for creating a galaxy — it’s the scaffolding that attracts normal matter — yet reveals itself only as an extra gravitational tug on gas and stars. ‘ Read more of this interesting article here

Breakthrough in search for Dark Matter

Wimps ( Weakly Interacting Massive Particles) lose ground to Axions. Read more here to find out.

Nasa Scientists Use Origami Skills to Design Future Spacecraft

Watch this exciting clip to find out more

Why does the air smell different before a Thunderstorm?

A thunderstorm or electrical storm is caused because of larges imbalance in electrical charges caused by friction in clouds. Clouds become charged due to movement of ice, water droplets and soft hail. The friction causes movement of electrons and leaves the top of the cloud positively charged and the bottom negative. Lightning strikes can take […]

Is light a particle or a wave?

One of the first people to have a documented position on this was Pythagoras. Unbeknownst to a lot of people besides from giving us the rule about right angle triangles that everybody learns about at secondary school probably the world over he also believed that everything in the world can be explained with mathematics. It […]

What is antimatter?

Matter or ‘stuff’ we encounter in our day to day experience such as gases, liquids or gases is composed in different arrangements of atoms. Inside these atoms are protons, neutrons and electrons. The protons and neutrons are made of smaller subatomic particles called quarks. All these building blocks: atoms, protons, neutrons, electrons and quarks can […]