Articles by Shubham Sharma

Russian hackers breached US electricity network causing blackouts

According to the WSJ, the hackers used conventional spoofing mechanisms to gain access to America's power grid

Jul 24, 2018

Watch: Stephen Hawking explains what existed before the 'big, big bang'

The universe started off as a small singularity 13.8 billion years ago and has been expanding ever since but what came before has always been a mystery.

Mar 4, 2018

Watch this incredible video of a Shaolin monk piercing glass with a tiny needle

Though the entire exploit starts and ends in a split second, it can be seen in incredible detail thanks to a super slow motion camera.

Feb 28, 2018

Massive 1,400-year-old banquet hall uncovered in Japan's ancient capital city

The banquet hall was likely used for various rituals and sumo tournaments during the seventh century.

Feb 28, 2018

A space assistant? Cimon the 'floating' robot will join space station astronauts later this year

Cimon would simplify their routine tasks and serve as an early warning system to flag technical glitches.

Feb 28, 2018

Artificial Intelligence

Can life exist beneath the Martian surface? 'Weird' microbes found in Mars-like conditions could provide answers

Dormant subsurface microbes found on Earth could be present on Mars as well.

Feb 27, 2018

Proxima Centauri: Intense stellar explosion may have wiped out life from Earth's closest exoplanet

The massive stellar blast was nearly 10 times brighter than our Sun's largest solar blasts.

Feb 27, 2018

Russian state television airs shooter game footage to depict military action in Syria

The incident comes just a few months after Russia's Defence Ministry shared images from an iPhone game to suggest US was aiding Isis operatives.

Feb 27, 2018

Mars' tiny potato-shaped moons captured facing each other in stunning Nasa image

Nasa's Odyssey spacecraft was flying 5,615km away from Phobos and nearly 20,000km away from Deimos when the images were captured.

Feb 25, 2018

NASA

These monkeys attract females with their unusually large and floppy noses

This study is the first to suggest that male-to-male competition and female mating choices may have influenced the evolution of proboscis monkeys' nose.

Feb 25, 2018

Are we heading towards doomsday? Scientist suggests risk of a major war could be higher than believed

The computer scientist analysed data related to large wars that took place over the last two centuries.

Feb 25, 2018

Astronomers may find aliens in the coming decades but how will they know their intentions?

In a recent Reddit AMA session, futurist Michio Kaku detailed how the first contact with alien life could turn out.

Feb 25, 2018

Nasa captures Phoenix Mars Lander after 10 years, finds nothing but dust

The robotic spacecraft landed on the Red Planet in 2008 to explore its surface and atmospheric history and find evidence of water.

Feb 24, 2018

China's new next-gen Mach 5+ hypersonic jet could reach New York from Beijing in 2 hours

The craft features a unique four-winged design to reduce turbulence and drag at ultra-fast speeds.

Feb 23, 2018

Watch The Ring's sinister ghost crawl out of a TV in this augmented reality video

A developer used augmented reality platform Unity and simulated the entire scene with a few critical twists.

Feb 23, 2018

A 'happy' spacesuit? Scientists working on revolutionary new tech to keep astronauts stress-free in space

The Nasa-backed project could ultimately improve efficiency of the astronauts on deep-space missions.

Feb 23, 2018

Is ancient cave art drawn by our ancestors the earliest evidence of first human language?

Humans may have used places where sound echoed the most as "hot-spots" to visually represent language.

Feb 23, 2018

Revolutionary Nasa technique captures melting Antarctic ice like never before

The seven-year-long work on the system shows that West Antarctic ice sheets are melting at a rapid rate.

Feb 22, 2018

Racing birds could explain how giant dinosaurs moved and lived several million years ago

Scientists raced as many as 12 bird species on an enclosed track to understand and relate their locomotive traits to those of long-extinct dinosaurs.

Feb 22, 2018

Dinosaurs

Space Launch System: Watch Nasa fire up its next big rocket engine at highest-ever thrust capacity

The first mission of the vehicle will be an uncrewed flight to the far side of the moon sometime in 2020.

Feb 22, 2018

NASA

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