This weekend, the Moon will pass between Earth and the Sun, giving rise to what sky-watchers call an annular eclipse. Also known as a “ring of fire” eclipse (for reasons that the top image should make clear), it’s the first annular eclipse to be visible from the continental U.S. in close to 20 years. Here’s [...]

Ever dreamed of quantum computer that can throw the current generation of computer to your dustbin? Now this is not so far, researchers at the University of Sydney claimed that they have designed a tiny crystal just made up of only 300 atoms that acts like a quantum computer so powerful it would take a [...]

For all of you who love physics and want to know the cutting edge science going in the world right now must watch this 21 minute. Brian Greene the noted physicist explains all these theories in an easy to understand way at the TED talk. The talk starts with the Physics Nobel Prize of 2011 [...]

Although we have covered Higgs Boson before but this 8 minute video by PHD Comics explains it in much more simpler way. You will come to know each and every aspect of Higgs Boson and the story behind it along with the research going for it by CERN. This video is highly recommended by Scimad [...]

Scientists from the Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology in Barcelona, Spain, have been able to build a scale that can weigh the smallest unit of mass that is yoctogram which is just one septillionth of a gram.(septillion=10^24). The research reported by the scientist in Nature Nanotechnology explains the use of nanotubes which vibrate at different frequencies [...]

Earthquakes have taken many lives for centuries and we have only been a spectator to its mayhem. Although earthquake today is one of the most deadly forces of the nature today but we haven’t been able to understand it completely let alone predict it. Several methods have been deployed like the studying of P-waves, animal [...]

This question has been around hundred of years and has different answers aattached to it but all those answers were either theoretical or experimented with old and less advanced technology. Now researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and University of Costa Rica took the task of finding the final explanation using modern techniques which [...]

There are many predictions about the “mega destruction” of our planet. There are even movies made on these predictions but such destruction instantly is not possible scientifically. There must be any reason for this destruction. The most reliable and technically correct reason in some sense is “plate tectonics”. Earth’s future can be predicted by how [...]