Fun Fact: Globally, air-conditioning (AC) and cooling appliances use about 7% of the world’s electricity and account for roughly 3.2% of total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In India’s sweltering summers, the phrase “Cooling India’s Homes Without Climate Guilt: The Carbon Story of Air Conditioning” feels almost rebellious. Because yes, we deserve cool homes. But the …
Fun Fact: Did you know that over 47,000 brick kilns across the Indo-Gangetic plain in India have been detected using satellite imagery and machine-learning? In this age of soaring skyscrapers and sleek smartphones, it’s ironic that a humble brick still plays a starring role in India’s construction boom — and stays largely hidden from view. …
Fun Fact: By 2030, the global stream of electronic waste (e-waste) could reach a mind-boggling 2.5 million tons — a digital graveyard we’re building without a map. What if your old smartphone wasn’t just clutter in a drawer but the trigger for a tech-driven chain reaction? In the blog titled “E-Waste Gets Smart: AI + …
Fun fact: India’s first dedicated Quantum City in Bengaluru is expected to create a USD 20 billion quantum economy by 2035. That’s huge. In this article, I examine The Promise and Peril of India’s Quantum City, exploring why this futuristic idea might be a game-changer — or a cautionary tale. What is Being Promised A …
Fun fact: There might be more “almost-stars” hiding near us than the bright ones we can see—some of them are forming rare quadruple systems that challenge everything we thought we knew. Astronomers recently hit the headlines with the discovery of a quadruple star system called UPM J1040-3551 AabBab, and the title alone sounds like science …
Fun fact: When you count on your fingers, you’re literally expanding your brainpower beyond your skull. We tend to imagine the brain as a self-contained control centre, a wrinkled lump of Gray matter doing all the heavy lifting inside our skulls. But what if that’s not the full picture? What if your “mind” isn’t locked …
Fun Fact: The average person checks their phone about 96 times a day—that’s once every 10 minutes. Picture starting your day with no clue what day it is. Or forgetting your best friend’s birthday. Or walking into a supermarket without a clue what to buy. These things don’t happen anymore—not because our memories have improved, …
Fun Fact: Before the invention of time zones, every town ran on its own local time—meaning noon in Mumbai could be different from noon in Pune. Imagine missing your train not because you were late, but because your clock disagreed with the station master’s. That was daily reality in the 19th century, when time was …
Fun fact: The earliest compasses were made of lodestone, a naturally magnetized rock, and were used not for navigation—but for divination in ancient China! Picture this: You’re lost in a dense forest with no GPS (Global Positioning System), no phone signal, and the sun is hidden behind thick clouds. You reach into your backpack and …
Fun fact: The world’s first cloned mammal, Dolly the sheep, was born in 1996—and her birth changed science forever. Once considered the stuff of science fiction and eccentric scientist tales, cloning has now firmly entered the realm of mainstream biology. And no, we’re not secretly growing armies of identical humans in underground labs. But we …
