By Dr. Gamini Padmaperuma Initiatives on Digital Transformation are given very high priority by the new government. While the opportunities and benefits that are associated with Digital Transformation are widely highlighted, the challenges that face such major initiative are not so well identified. The purpose of this article is to highlight Opportunities, Challenges and Strategies […]

Courtesy Global Policy Forum Alaska Conservation FoundationDispatchMining the Ionosphere Spring 1996 At a remote facility ringed with barbed wire, a brand-new array of 36 antennas rises from the black spruce forest that stretches hundreds of miles across central Alaska. Completed December 1994 and now undergoing testing, the antenna field is the visible part of a […]

Lyubov Stepushova Courtesy Pravda Russia can return stranded astronauts from the ISS, but a political solution is needed NASA has postponed until the end of August a decision on when and how to return home two astronauts who are stuck on the ISS. The only safe option is on the Soyuz. Photo: flickr.com by NASA […]

Chinfo Channel Dr. Sweta Adatia, renowned neurologist, author, and TED-X speaker, in this captivating session recorded on April 9, 2024, at Sandeepany Sadhanalaya, Powai, Mumbai. Dr Adatia delves into the fascinating realm of neuroscience, exploring the profound impact of chanting on brain functions. Dr. Adatia specialises in treating strokes and migraine and has conducted extensive […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies (ACCIMT) has plqnned to launch a satellite next year.  Chairman of the institute Prof. Chandana Jayaratne emphasized the need for further infrastructure development to educate school children regarding satellite technology.  He made these remarks while participating in a programme aimed at educating students on the […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  ලංකා ලීඩර් රජයේ විශ්වවිද්‍යාල උපකුලපති සංගමයේ සභාපති සහ රජරට විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයේ උපකුලපති මහාචාර්ය සංජීවනී ගිනිගද්දර මහත්මිය පවසන්නේ රජරට විශ්වවිද්‍යාලය සිදු කළ පර්යේෂණයක ප්‍රතිඵලයක් ලෙස සර්කෝනියම් නිෂ්පාදනයට පේටන්ට් බලපත්‍රය හිමිව ඇති බවය. අනුරාධපුරයේදී පෙරේදා (18) පැවති ප්‍රවෘත්ති සාකච්ඡාවකට එක්වෙමින් උපකුලපතිවරිය මේ බව අනාවරණය කළාය.  ලෝකයේ හොඳම ඉල්මනයිට් ලෙස සැලකෙන පුල්මුඩේ ඉල්මනයිට් මගින් රජරට විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේ […]

Courtesy The Island BY Dr B. J. C. PereraMBBS(Cey), DCH(Cey), DCH(Eng), MD(Paed), MRCP(UK), FRCP(Edin), FRCP(Lon), FRCPCH(UK), FSLCPaed, FCCP, Hony FRCPCH(UK), Hony. FCGP(SL)Specialist Consultant Paediatrician and Honorary Senior Fellow, Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. It is a well-known fact that many organs of the human body have some reserve quantum to fall […]

Courtesy Adaderana Scientists from China and Sri Lanka are conducting a joint marine scientific activities on board a Chinese research vessel, a senior official said Tuesday, amid concerns voiced by India and the US. The Chinese ship, ‘Shi Yan 6’ arrived at the Colombo port last week. According to sources, Sri Lanka was delaying granting […]

By M. Udita Sandaruwan Courtesy Ceylon Today It is the State with the lowest gravity in the world. There is a special area in that country that belongs to the rotation speed of the earth and the mysterious constant of the universe. Is it just a coincidence that the historic Sri Dalada Maligawa is located […]

LankaLeader ඇමරිකා එක්සත් ජනපදයේ ස්ටැන්ෆර්ඩ් විශ්ව විද්‍යාලය සහ එල්සිවයර් ප්‍රකාශකයන් එක්ව කරන ලද නවතම ශ්‍රේණිගත කිරීම්වලට අනුව ශ්‍රී ලාංකික විද්‍යාඥයෝ 35 දෙනෙක් ලොව ප්‍රමුඛ පෙළේ විද්‍යාඥයන් 2% අතරට ඇතුලත්ව ඇත. වාර්ෂිකව මෙම ශ්‍රේණිගත කිරීම ඉදිරිපත් කරයි. මෙම වර්ෂය සඳහා එම ශ්‍රේණිගත කිරීම පසුගිය සතියේ එළිදැක්විණි. මෙලෙස ඇගයීමට ලක් වූ ශ්‍රී ලාංකික විද්‍යාඥයන් අතර මෙත්තිකා විතානගේ, […]

Courtesy Pravda.ru It seems that Roald Dahl did guess something: when plants are harmed, they emit sound signals – not exactly as humans or animals do when they make screams, but in the form of beeping or clicking sounds at ultrasonic frequencies that go beyond human hearing. Photo: Openverse These sound signals are amplified as the plant is stressed. According […]

By R. Madidaran Courtesy Ceylon Today It is crystal clear that the language is powerful engine of human intellect and creativity, allowing for ultimate combination of words to generate an endless number of new structures and ideas out of ‘old’ ones. It has the main role in the human brain. It directs how we specify […]

Courtesy Adaderana A team of scientists from NASA is reportedly on a visit to Sri Lanka these days, in order to carry out research related to the alleged similarities in the stones found in Sri Lanka to those on the planet Mars. The team of experts is led by Mr. Sunithi Karunathilake, a Sri Lankan […]

Opinion by Ed Dorrell  Courtesy The Independent If you are a certain age, the phrase artificial intelligence” will almost certainly bring up one specific mental image: the T-1000, a regenerating robot sent back in time to 1995 by Skynet to kill the future of the human resistance John Connor. Just about anyone who was a teenager in […]

Advancement of Artificial Technology (AI) If you have been fascinated by the advancement of Artificial Technology (AI), pause for a moment to learn a bit about the massive threat AI poses to our very existence right now. It is not a joke, AI is already being developed for very unethical and dangerous pursuits. One AI […]

Mr Alan Williams Media & Communications Officer University of Plymouth  The University is working with organisations in the UK and Sri Lanka on new research to develop compound flood hazard maps. An international team of engineers is joining forces with a disaster educationalist to investigate coastal flooding due to cyclones in three communities within the […]

By Michelle Cohan, CNN When he was just 15, Kazumi Muraki created a small, portable device to capture carbon from the atmosphere. Seven years later, the Japanese chemist is researching how to convert this captured carbon into fuel. As a young boy, Muraki was never very interested in science, he tells CNN, until his grandfather gave […]

By Ella Nilsen and René Marsh, CNN Courtesy CNN —  For the first time ever, US scientists at the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California successfully produced a nuclear fusion reaction resulting in a net energy gain, a source familiar with the project confirmed to CNN. The US Department of Energy is expected […]

Prof. Chandana Jayaratne Chairman-Arthur C Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies (ACCIMT)Head of the Department of Physics and Director, Astronomy and Space Science Unit, Department of Physics, University of Colombo, eclipse on November 8th at moonrise  (A lunar eclipse on the 8th full moon day) On November 8, 2022 full moon day, there will be a total lunar eclipse […]

කොළඹ විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයයේ තාරකා විද්‍යා සහ අභාවකාශ විද්‍යා ඒකකයේ අධ්‍යක්‍ෂ මහාචාර්ය චන්දන ජයරත්න (නොවැම්බර් 8 දා බීවර් රුධිර චන්ද්‍රග්‍රහණයක් ) 2022 නොවැම්බර් 8 පුර පසළොස්වක පොහොය දිනයේදී ආසියාව, ඕස්ට්‍රේලියාව සහ ඇමරිකාව සහ යුරෝපයේ කොටසකට දර්ශනය වන පූර්ණ චන්ද්‍රග්‍රහණයක් සිදුවනු ඇත. කෙසේ වෙතත්, මෙම චන්ද්‍රග්‍රහණය ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට දිස්වනුයේ අර්ධ චන්ද්‍රග්‍රහණයක් ලෙස t බව කොළඹ විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේ භෞතික විද්‍යා […]

BY NURY VITTACHI Courtesy Fridayeveryday.com A VISITING HONG KONG scientist has just won the Nobel prize for experimentally proving that the real world… isn’t real. Wait, what? The world isn’t real? Correct. And even though the physical world is not real, it has nonetheless given scientist Alain Aspect the Nobel Prize for Physics, along with […]

By Audrey Courty Courtesy ABC News A Brisbane-based company that invented a smartphone app it says can diagnose COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses by listening to someone cough has been purchased by Pfizer for nearly $180 million. ResApp Health Limited uses diagnostic technology developed by Associate Professor Udantha Abeyratne and his research team at the University of Queensland […]

Robert Murray-Smith This is the original article A droplet-based electricity generator with high instantaneous power density

BY CAROLINE DELBERT Courtesy Popular Mechanics It may sound crazy, but it’s based on science. KATERYNA KOVARZHGETTY IMAGES A molecular geneticist at the University of Surrey says the human “mind” is electromagnetic. Mind-body dualism is one of philosophy’s oldest questions, boosted this time by science. Is the answer as simple as our brains forming an electromagnetic “cloud” during […]

Daisy Hernandez Courtesy msn.com For the very first time, scientists have recorded the brain waves of a dying person. The recordings indicate that there could be some truth to the statement my life flashed before my eyes” when someone has a near-death experience. The findings, which have been published in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, are not comprehensive because the patient […]

Lankaweb The Committee appointed by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to probe the recent gas explosions, concluding that the change in the composition of gas was the primary reason for the recent gas-related explosions. But this conclusion contradicts the basic law of gas explosions. Here is a simple demonstration. DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME. The demonstration was […]

Courtesy Ceylon Today The Governments of British Columbia, Alberta and Québec recently ordered facial recognition Company Clearview AI to stop collecting — and to delete — images of people obtained without their consent. Discussions about the risks of facial recognition systems that rely on automated face analysis technologies tend to focus on corporations, national governments […]

Sarath Bulathsinghala 4 Dec 2021 The ‘experts’ – the politicians, the administrators, and the businessmen are trying to ‘rediscover the wheel’! A few days ago, we witnessed parliamentarians, administrators, and perhaps businessmen with vested interests in the ‘gas saga’ sitting together to find solutions for the gas explosions happening throughout Sri Lanka. Is this the […]

Courtesy News18 Sri Lanka wants to reclaim its ancient glory by conducting a detailed scientific research into its aviation past. Many Sri Lankans believe that King Ravana was the world’s first seasoned aviator and that during his days, the island had aircraft and airports. Dismissing the argument that these are mythological beliefs with no scientific […]

ෂම්මි උයනගේ (පරිගණක විද්‍යා විශේෂවේදී – කොළඹ විශ්ව විද්‍යාලය) පරිගණක මෘදුකාංග ඉංජිනේරු කොරෝනා වසංගත තත්වය හමුවේ අධිකරණ කටයුතු ඉදිරියට පවත්වාගෙනයාම සඳහා සූම් තාක්ෂණය භාවිතා කිරීම සම්බන්ධව මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් මහතා විසින් ලියන ලද ලිපියක් ලංකා වෙබ් අඩවියෙහි පළ වී තිබුණි (එම ලිපිය සඳහා මෙතනින් පිවිසෙන්න). සූම් ආයතනයේ අයිතිකරු වන චීනයේ උපත ලද අවුරුදු 50ක් වයසැති එරික් […]