Join my journey from the mid-galactic black-hole to the keratin in your hair, and discover the beauty of physics The  evening before my departure to Geneva, Switzerland, I was looking up in ...

Elevators take us up buildings in a jiffy. What if they could take us to the sky?

The Amazon is getting mood-swings. And that’s where the drones come in.

There are so many ways to be immortal. Which one works for you?

Your use of technology may be changing the way your brain works. But so is everything else.

What really happens when you charge your battery faster?

Hyperloop’s plans to cut your travel time by ten

Settling down is no easy task - especially when you're on a different planet

The world, and your phone, is dependent on chemicals. What happens when they run out? When  you hear the word “elements”, you probably think of the Periodic Table.  A large uneven grid, list...

Want to use land wisely? Then analyse the ‘skin’ of the Earth This story can also be read on Medium [https://medium.com/snipette/selfie-of-the-earth-a4f52c36c253?source=friends_link&sk=530a6...

Here’s low-tech tool to reverse climate change This post can also be viewed on Medium [https://medium.com/snipette/geoengineering-22b1f0a2823d?source=friends_link&sk=05e1108e43ca1c635f7d80ff...

How your next word is predicted — and how you can make it more accurate. Have you ever cursed the autocorrect on your phone? Tried typing someone’s name, maybe, and had it changed to a rand...

Form bits to qubits: how computers leverage quantum quirks run things even faster By now [https://medium.com/snipette/the-curious-cat-1b63bf0daf77?source=friends_link&sk=0b0e383b2a27a0d9d318...

Superposition, tunnelling, entanglement, and other bits and pieces of quantum mechanics In Part 2 [https://medium.com/snipette/waving-particles-30bdc85daa7e?source=friends_link&sk=d6ee124ae6...

Do users have a ‘body’ that exists independently from the online profile? Is there life after deletion? That’s a question that has never been answered. Or rather, it’s been answered many di...

It took thirteen years to first sequence our DNA. Thanks to bioinformatics, we can now do it in a week.

Or, how to make a telescope as large as the world This is it. The first image that has ever been taken of any black hole. And maybe it doesn’t look spectacular at first, but consider this: ...

A super-smart AI may not be evil. But what it could be, is even more dangerous. This  year, SpaceX made it possible to reuse rockets, by making them land on  earth instead of burning up in t...

How were programming languages built? Here’s a brief history.

Why can’t people from different social networks stay in touch with each other? In two months’ time, Google Plus will be gone. I first saw the message circulating sometime last October. “Sav...

No matter where or how you write, a bit of you stays behind The phone suddenly began beeping with SMSes. Your account has been debited by ten thousand rupees, the first one said. It was foll...

The conscious, the subconscious, and the neural network of your smartphone’s keyboard Before showing up for an examination, the man telephoned Sigmund Freud to fix an appointment. He also ma...

You can’t always trust people to pay you — but what if you could trust the money itself? Money: what is it? We all use it. We all want it. We all think about how to make more. Money can be ...

A netizen’s guide to the postal service These days, messaging is much easier than ever before. Apps and services like WhatsApp and Telegram allow you to send not just short texts, but also p...

They wanted to listen to Sputnik. Instead, they invented the GPS. It’s interesting to track an Ola cab coming to you once you’ve hailed it. To start with, the car is several feet wider than ...

When solutions end up creating more problems. Earlier, people just made typos. They might write “onw” instead of “one” or “teh” instead of “the” because their fingers touched slightly wrong ...

Will Martian astronauts be able to load YouTube? Mars rovers, as mentioned last week [https://medium.com/snipette/rover-control-96d3acad4f5d], can’t be controlled directly with a joystick. E...

It was first invented in the 1970s. They’re still working on it today. What if any surface could be digitally changed to show whatever pattern or image you wanted? If you could change your r...

Why you may get WhatsApp messages from people you’ve never heard of before. Suddenly, my friend got a load of WhatsApp photos. They were pictures the sender had taken during a trip to the Hi...

Learning to drive is not easy. Especially if you’re a car. The van in front was following the road rules a bit too meticulously for his liking. It would stop the moment a signal turned red, ...