Sayan’s BlogWorld

It seems structure not pigments are the key to producing a peacock’s colours.

String theory unravelled in a rather creative way.

GPS to the rescue next time someone gets kidnapped.

In 1859 this solar storm blew out most of then advanced telegraphic system and caused auroras as far south as Hawaii. The interesting thing is that one of the best scientific records of the event was taken in Bombay’s Colaba Observatory.

0-100kmph in 3.6 seconds and a range of 500 kms are pretty impressive. Check India’s only commercial electric car the Reva. I have seen quite a few on the roads here in Bangalore. Once an auto-rickshaw driver commented wisely that the government should replace all the polluting auto-rickshaws by the Reva.

Read about the new smart materials on the block which people are raving about. Carbon and silicon nanotubes. Will they leave up to their promise or be like one-hit wonders? Only time will tell but keep tuned in.

Interesting insight into the scientific abilities of the ancient Eygptians.

Quite funny. I can relate to it thanks to my 3 years of fixing others broken PCs in college.

Real cool stuff and it runs on the VIA mini-ITX platform.

CDs and DVDs are being literally produced by the billion and most end up in landfills in a short time. Check out this new bio-degradable CD technology.

Is a safe, small, clean and cheap nuclear power plant possible? Find out more.

According to him the picture is not so rosy as its made out to be and paints AMD as one of the big reasons.

Read about self-arranging nano-memory.

Follow up on cooling technology post earlier.

The truth revealed here.