Robots invade Mars in the name of Research

Robots invade Mars in the name of Research

Moroccan desert near Morocco-Algeria Border served as a testing site for 3 rovers and about 40 engineers in the first phase of Strategic Research Cluster on Space Robotics which is a project funded by the European Union’ Horizon 2020 program. Engineers tested the rovers automated navigation systems in Sahara Desert spanning over 2 weeks in a project coordinated by PERASPERA, a partnership of space agencies from Europe, including Italy, France, Germany, Spain & UK. The tests represent the efforts of 4 years on the international R&D programme which is coordinated…

Water n Metal available now outside our solar system

Water n Metal available now outside our solar system

Recently scientists have discovered some trace of water and multiple metals on Exoplanet. Exoplanet is a star revolving around a solar system. Scientists from University of Cambridge in UK & Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias(IAC) in Spain have discovered WASP-127b, a  giant planet with partly clear skies and heavy presence of multiple metals including sodium, potassium and lithium in its atmosphere. This was not available in earlier Exoplanets. Scientists used Gran Telescopic Canarias (GTC) located in Canary Islands to study this phenomenon. Radius of WASP-127b is 1.4 times larger than…

Blue Wine-New flavour for your taste buds

Blue Wine-New flavour for your taste buds

Blue wine. You may not have heard about it before. A new cobalt blue colored wine is being launched in USA in October 2017 after a two year experiment mainly in Spain. The maker of this wine Gik who originally launched in Spain were fined Euro 3000 by Spanish government as this colour was not legally approved in wine industry. It will be launched in USA in October and is expected to be priced between $12 to $14. The producers of this wine are trying to do something different with…

Why diseases should be named carefully

Why diseases should be named carefully

Disease names can have consequences. Yes this is true. Government agencies generally do not pay attention whenever disease is named. This is not only in India but is prevalent in other countries also. Swine flu has nothing to do with pigs but pigs were slaughtered in some countries at the time of spread of Swine Flu. In 2009 Egypt ordered killing of 300,000 pigs to stop its spread. Spanish flu did not originate from Spain. Many organizations working on Spanish flu brought Spain to limelight claiming it to be the…