World’s First Beach in Singhbhum Region of India

A recent international study has revealed that the Earth’s first continents or “cratons” may have emerged from the ocean around 3.2 billion years ago. This new finding is at odds with previous estimates, which suggested that the first continents emerged 2.5 billion years ago. In the landmark discovery, scientists have found that the first continental land emerged around 3.2 billion years ago, in an area that is now the Singhbhum region of Jharkhand, in India. Continue reading World’s First Beach in Singhbhum Region of India

Indrajit RoyChoudhury21 Nov 202121 Feb 202320 Comments

Opinion

Neuroprosthetics | Big Hope for Impaired Nervous System

Where once prosthetics were crude and simplistic, now they’re carefully engineered works of art. In fact, with breakthroughs such as neuroprosthetic limbs, there’s even the potential for prosthetics to interface with the human brain. Continue reading Neuroprosthetics | Big Hope for Impaired Nervous System

Judhajit Roychoudhury13 Sep 202106 Nov 20226 Comments

History

The World’s Oldest Zero!

The origin of the symbol zero has long been one of the world’s greatest mathematical mysteries. New carbon dating research commissioned by the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries into the ancient Indian Bakhshali manuscript, held at the Bodleian, has revealed it to be hundreds of years older than initially thought, making it the world’s oldest recorded origin of the zero symbol that we use today. Continue reading The World’s Oldest Zero!

Indrajit RoyChoudhury11 Dec 201715 Dec 202219 Comments

Opinion

Procrastination & Creativity

Procrastination can actually make us more creative, according to Professor Adam Grant. The management professor at Wharton School of Business has highlighted the benefits of procrastination — especially for making us more creative. Continue reading Procrastination & Creativity

Indrajit RoyChoudhury24 Mar 201726 Sep 202128 Comments

Opinion

Right to Disconnect

Aside from well-being, experts say that employers should consider the effects digital exhaustion can have on workers’ productivity, which could impact the bottom line. There is certainly more research to be done, and perhaps once the French law is in place, we will have the makings of a real world “experiment.” Continue reading Right to Disconnect

Indrajit RoyChoudhury02 Jan 201717 Dec 202220 Comments

Opinion

Is Google Changing Our Brains?

Back in the pre-internet days, if someone asked you a tricky question, you had a couple of options. You could see if anyone you knew had the answer. You could pull out an encyclopaedia. Or you could head down to the library to carry out research. Whichever one you opted for, it was almost certainly more complicated and time-consuming than what you’d do today: Google it. Continue reading Is Google Changing Our Brains?

Indrajit RoyChoudhury07 Oct 201626 Sep 202112 Comments