The Menace Of Loudspeakers Loudspeakers are a great nuisance. They spread noise pollution which affects human nerves and can make a person, especially and infant, deaf or perhaps even dumb. No doubt, we have several other agents that spread noise pollution such as horns of motor vehicles, buzzers and hooters of factories, noises of people in markets, high volumes of TV and radio sets, juggins sounds of tractors, scooters and generators, ...

The Menace of Garbage We do dream of being a developed world by 2020 or earlier, but actually at least to this date, our country, as far as its major parts are concerned, is only a big slum. Wherever we go, we see heaps of garbage lying in the open. These heaps are not cleared for months together as the municipal  van shows up only occasionally, say after a week or...

The Jogging Robots Robots have since long been in use. They are commonly used in some advanced countries like Japan. Actually, robots are just machines which look like human  beings and which perform certain acts that are  normally done by human beings. Especially those actions which seem difficult or boring to human beings, are assigned to robots and are thus got done in a plain, simple way. So far, we had...

Ultraviolet (UV) Radiation The sun spreads its rays of light in the form of electromagnetic radiation. These have different names and forms such as ultraviolet rays , gamma rays, infrared rays, radio waves, microwaves, visible rays, etc.   The most dangerous among all the rays mentioned above are the ultraviolet (UV) rays. These rays are invisible except that when they fall on certain kinds of material they can make them emit...

Some Emerging Science Trends in India A bio-chemical DNA laboratory, the first of its kind in the country  has been set up in Chandigarh at the central scientific Instruments Organization (CSIO) There is scope of a revolution in the electronic sector. As bio-molecular technology in which DNA  is used as the base material, is likely to reduce substantially the size of electronic devices, whereas their capability will increase manifold. Recently, an...

Science and Human Happiness Essay No. 01   There is no doubt that science has been the greatest boon to man so far. But the achievements of science have not come to man as a ripe apple falls in the lap of a man sitting under an apple tree. Science is not just the result of observation and experience. It is, on the other hand , the result of centuries of...

Science and Religion Essay No. 01 Science and religion seem to be antagonistic to each other. But intrinsically, their purpose is the same – that is, to make life happy and worth living. Both claim to be based on truth, though their methods are different. There are many similarities and dissimilarities between science and religion. The basis of science in earliest stages at least, is believed to have been observation and...