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World War II can be considered as one of the most destructive military clash of our recent history. According to an estimation around 70-85 million people died in the span of 6 years between 1939-1945. But we all must have heard that old saying, "Necessity is the mother of inventions". This time of crisis acted as a catalyst in bringing forth many new inventions. People were facing a massive global conflict and they need more and more of everything. Military needed more advanced weapons, more faster and secure communication and common people needed better health facilities and more security. These demands encourages scientists and inventors to design and invent new products. Some of these innovations played a major role in victory and had a significant impact on common  people's lives as well. Some of the technologies designed for winning war found use as commercial products as well.  In this article we are going to discuss some of the most important innovations of Wor...

  What is Git? Managing files for a big software is a very difficult task. It may consume lots of time and memory. Therefore, you need a software that can manage the changes in files and folders and save these changes for future reference. Git is a Version Control software that provides all these features for a programmer. Git is a Distributed version Control System (DVCS). In DVCS clients don’t just check out latest snapshot of the file; rather, they fully mirror the repository, including its full history. Thus, if any server dies, and these systems were collaborating via that server, any of the client repositories can be copied back up to the server to restore it. This feature makes git very helpful tool for programmer to manage their project. When we install Git, an application called Git Bash comes with it. It provides command line experience on operating system and support Linux command. Bash is a popular default shell on Linux. Installing Git Bash 1.You can easily dow...

With the introduction of smart and more energy-efficient housing, the need is there for construction to get smarter and more efficient too. With more innovative tools and techniques appearing all the time, here are five industry-changing examples of the new technology used in civil engineering today. Self-healing concrete Cement is one of the major construction material, but also one of the largest contributor to harmful carbon emissions.  Cracking is a major problem in construction, usually caused by exposure to water and chemicals. Researchers at Bath University are looking to develop a self-healing concrete, using a mix containing bacteria within microcapsules, which will aid building innovation by germinating when water enters a crack in the concrete to produce limestone, plugging the crack before water and oxygen has a chance to corrode the steel reinforcement. Photovoltaic glaze One of the most exciting new technologies used in civil engineering is building integrated p...

In the field of AI, researchers are working on devices having their own memory and ability of thinking, they are trying to mimic the human brain. The human brain is the most complicated structure consisting of millions of neurons that are interlinked by a thread-like structure called synapses. The engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have designed 'brain-on -a-chip'. The chip is smaller than a piece of confetti, that is about 1 mm in dimension and made from thousands of artificial brain synapses known as Memristors. Memristors are the silicon-based component that mimics the information-transmitting synapses in the human brain. Memristors or memory resistors are the necessary elements of neuromorphic computing. In a neuromorphic device, memristors would work more similar to a brain synapse. The synapse receives signals from one neuron, in the form of ions, and sends a corresponding signal to the next neuron. Like a brain synapse, a memristor would also be...

In series of posts celebrating the success of ISRO, this is our third post and in this, we are going to remember a milestone of ISRO's journey, Chandrayaan-1.                                                                                                                      pic by:- Universe today Chandrayaan -1 was India's first mission to the moon. It was launched by ISRO in October 2008 and it was active until August 2009. The mission was a significant uplift to India's space program as most of the technologies used were developed in India. This mission is well known for the discovery of evidence of water molecules on the moon. MISSION HISTORY & OBJECTIVE The word...

In the continuation of our previous blog, it turns to introduce you with further missions of ISRO ..... After Rohini satellite mission next in the row was ASLV mission.                ASLV: ASLV ASLV stands for Augmented Satellite Launch Vehicle. It was all started to expand the payload capacity to 150 kg which is thrice of the previous SLV-3 so that satellites weighing more than before can be placed I to lower earth orbit. It's a five-stage program. ASLV  project develops technologies to place the payload into the geostationary orbit of Earth and also mastered many technologies like strap-on which helped in the development of PSLV. Under this project, four developmental flight was conducted from the Sriharikota launching pad. ASLV-D1 was the first developmental flight, took place in March 24,1987, was carrying satellite SROSS-1 and other scientific instruments. It was not successful. ASLV-D2 was the second developme...

Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is the space agency of the government of India. Today each and every person know about ISRO because of its remarkable achievements but since its establishment, it had gone through many ups and downs and many transformations. It started its journey with small rockets of just 30-50 kg payload and now it is carrying 4000 kg of payload to outer space. Let's have a look at its incredible journey. Establishment India's first space organization INCOSPAR (Indian national committee for space research) was established in 1962 by our first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Vikram Sarabhai, a renowned Indian physicist and astronomer. He was the one who initiated space researches in India. Thumba equatorial rocket launching station was set up by INCOSPAR in Thiruvananthapuram for upper atmospheric research.  On 15th of August 1969, INCOSPAR was dissolved and ISRO was established with the vision of  "harnessing space technology f...

quantum computer pic source:-By National Institute of Standards and Technology   Scientists and researchers keep working to improve technology day by day to solve new challenges. Quantum computer is a step towards the fastest computing machine. It is homologous of a traditional computer, but the technology used in both is totally different. Quantum computer is the application of Quantum Mechanics. It uses qubits or Quantum bits to process data. Quantum computer:  Working Today's computers use bits i.e. zero and one. zero and one are the representation of electrical or optical pulses, one represents the presence of current and zero represent the absence of current. All types of data (text, video, audio, image) are the long stream of zero and one. In the other hand, Quantum computers use qubits which are subatomic particles such as electron and proton. Generating and managing of qubits is a big challenge for scientists and researchers. Generally, Generation and manageme...

Starlink is a privately owned project of Elon Musk's SpaceX promising to offer high-quality internet connections from space to the entire world. Currently, SpaceX is targeting its service in northern USA and Canada but it is planning to rapidly increase its coverage. It is working to have worldwide coverage by the end of 2021. This Starlink constellation will consist of thousands of satellites in lower earth orbit which will work in union with ground transceivers. SpaceX is launching 60 satellites at a time. Start of the venture Elon Musk firstly announced this idea in 2015. SpaceX started launching satellites in May 2019 with the launch of first 60 satellites. The most recent launch was done on the 22nd of April, taking the total count to 420. SpaceX plans to have as many as 12,000 satellites in this constellation throughout the globe providing very fast internet connection. SpaceX's satellite internet system is designed to offer blazing fast speeds up to 1 gigabit ...

By Miguel Soares - Own work , CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link Each day billions of people rely on data from satellites to go about their lives. We exchange chats, know the weather forecast and many more within a blink. Without satellites, our life would be dramatically different. After the first artificial satellite Sputnik-1, over 8000 satellites launch later. Satellites are part of our critical international infrastructure and intrinsic to everyday life on earth. Unfortunately, just as humans have polluted the oceans, air and land, we have left a dangerous mark in earth orbit leaving dead satellites and spent rocket parts in space that threatens both of our present and future missions. So it is prime demand of this time to clean our space. European space agency's mission Clearspace-1 will be the first space mission to remove an item of debris from orbit planned for launch in 2025.  In this mission a spacecraft with four robotic arms for grabbing debris, we installed. Clearspace ...

         Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The Voyager mission was launched by NASA in Summer of 1977 which consists of two spacecraft named Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. The main mission for the dual spacecraft was to review Jupiter and Saturn. It's been more than 40 years, they have been travelling through our solar system, unveiling the mysteries of outer planets and discovering new moons and now they have reached in interstellar space. Let's have a look on their journey. LAUNCH Voyager 2 was launched on August 20, 1977. After 16 days, on 5th of September, 1977 voyager 1 was launched. The Voyager missions were designed to take advantage of a special alignment of the outer planets that happens every 176 years. It would allow a spacecraft to slingshot from one planet to the next, assisted by the first planet's gravity which means it will require less propellant and time. Voyager 1 was the first man-made object to reach beyond our solar system in interste...

We human have colonized many countries across the earth but the inquisitive mind of ours never contented. We always think the new field to invade. This curiosity leads us towards the colonization of Mars. Just imagine how different is it to build cities over Mars. It might sound weird but work is going on in this context. Elon Musk and SpaceX have proposed the idea to colonize Mars. This mission includes a vehicle that can be used again, spacecraft that can carry humans safely, on-orbit propellant tankers, and rocket fuel will be produced via in situ utilisation. SpaceX has missioned to land the first human on Mars by 2024. SpaceX Starship, a fully reusable space vehicle is under construction since 2018. To achieve a large payload, spacecraft will first enter to earth's orbit, where it is expected to refuelled before it departs to Mars. After landing on Mars fuel produced by in situ utilisation is used to refuelled to return to earth. The expected load can be injected lie ...

"Merge of our brain with artificial intelligence". Doesn't it sounds like something straight out of a science fiction movie! But now this is happening for real. NEURALINK, one of the eccentric projects of Elon Musk is developing an ultra-high bandwidth brain-machine interface to connect humans and computers. About Neuralink We all know Elon Musk for his great projects, mainly Tesla and SpaceX. But, Neuralink is something much different from both. In a way, we can say that the other two companies aim to redefine what future humans will do but Neuralink wants to redefine what future humans will be.  Neuralink was set up by Elon Musk in 2016 but it opens up publicly about the technology it is working on, which is quite bold and controversial in 2019. Operating at a much smaller scale than Tesla or SpaceX, this conceptual startup aims to use a brain-machine interface to integrate humans with artificial intelligence by surgically implanting processors into our brai...