Indian Science : Where We Stand While looking towards the future it helps to look backwards first to be how Indian science has fared during 20th century. What were its top 10 achievements ? Could our overall performances have been better ? Can we use the painters from the past and trends at present to plan for the future ? There has been, it will be noticed, a shift since independence...

Internet & E-mail  Can you guess the age of Internet ? It was considered in the form of computer networking at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1962. After incubation period of seven years the first cute little baby of the species appeared on the scene in September in 1969 as APRANET of Department of Defence of Government of USA. APRANET consisted of four major techno-logical breakthrough (1) Interface message processor...

Our Solar System The solar system is the name given to the collection of heavenly bodies that encircle around the sun. The sequence of planets ascending to their distance from the Sun—Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. The sun contains over 99.8% of the total mass of the solar system. All the planets revolve around the sun in the same direction the orbit is elliptical the orbital...

Computer    Necessity is the mother of revolution. The saying holds true for computers also because computers were invented as a result of main search for a fast and accurate calculating device. The earliest device that qualifies as a digital computer is the abacus. The device permits the users to represent the number by the position of beads on the rock. Although abacus was invented around 600 B.C. It is interesting...

E-Education Information Technology has made information about any even or phenomena taking place at any place in the world at any time, available to any person anywhere is the basis of knowledge acquisition process has therefore tremendously benefited by the advent of information technology. Virtual Bank of Experts—In the case of formal education, the main determining factor about the quality of education is the quality of the teaching material, curriculum and...

E-Governance Government must be able to take quick timely and correct decision. Availability of complete and detailed information about the issues involved through analysis of the available information and assessment of the impact of the decisions form the basis of correct decisions. Information technology has provided online access to all information, all matters or events, at any time and from any location. First step of e-governance is therefore establishment of infrastructure...

The Human Genome Project  The Human Genome Project launched in 1990 is biology’s first large science project and is planned with an outlay of three billion dollars and an international collaboration involving 18 countries and 250 laboratories. The main aim of the project is to create a map of the entire set of genes (genome) in the human cell by decoding three billion units or base pairs (bp) of the human...

Science in the Service of Man Essay No. 01 Facsimile (Fax)—Facsimile transfer of messages i.e. is used for transmission of weather charts, engineering drawing and even hand written notes. It transfers copies of any types of document written in any language and in any script with a great speed. The Fax employs a photo-scanning process to obtain its electrical signals which are then transmitted through the communication channels at the receiver...