“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both. And be one traveller, long I stood; And looked down one as far as I could” — Robert Frost Ever since I joined IIT Gandhinagar, I have been constantly made aware, by my parents, teachers and…

58 million is the number of jobs that artificial intelligence will create by 2022. And 20 million manufacturing jobs will be lost to automation by 2030. What is up for grabs in future, with a workforce in which we will be competing with AI for jobs. If you are a…

Today, we live in a world where technology plays a massive role in our lives. Life during the coronavirus pandemic would have been significantly different if we did not have technology at our disposal to help us connect. We have gone from not knowing what WiFi is, to not being…

It was a bright sunny day in the medieval town of Gruyères, Switzerland. Gabriel lazily got up from his bed and stretched himself as he looked at the lush green meadows that lay outside his house in the hills. Gruyères is a small town north of the Great Alps in…

At times, we all dream of a very comfortable life, travelling the world, owning cool sports cars and what not. But all this requires a ton of money. In the coming years, with our increased desire for a better standard of living, continuous and wise investment is going to become…

Recently the United Nations conducted a Happiness Survey which showed India was among the least 10 happiest countries in the world. But no one among us thought about it. Our country is the second largest population in the world. We have been expanding endlessly but no one was concerned about…

Genetically Modified Mosquitoes: Are we getting rid of dengue for ever? Sorry humans, I don’t want to hurt you but I can’t help it. Mosquitoes carry several diseases. Malaria, Dengue, the Zika virus, are some of them. Spraying pesticides only reduces their population temporarily, and the mosquitoes regain their numbers…

The universe is unimaginably large. It takes light more than 28 billion years to travel from the edge of the observable universe to the opposite edge. In the process of travelling from one edge to another, light encounters more than 10 million superclusters which contains more than 50,000 galaxies each…

What makes our identity? Can it undergo a complete change? In one of the courses I took in college, based upon philosophy and cognition, I got to know a few exciting dimensions of the human brain. One of them being destructive plasticity. It has been observed countable times that accidents…