Author: Ahmed Nasser Anwar

Scott Kelly, a retired astronaut with four space flight missions under his belt; returned home from space after a year in March 2016, to find that his genetic sequence has been altered. This was determined by the fact that Scott Kelly’s genetic sequence no longer matched his twin brother’s. To be more accurate, 7% of Scott’s gene expression did not return to normal even after 6 months of his return to Earth. He had also grown 2 inches taller, but this detail has returned to normal. What needs to be understood is the fact that Scott’s genetic sequence changed...

From being regarded as a mystical art, deeply rooted in religion, medicine was fated to be studied as a scientific field that took the simple act of healing to new heights. Now the progression of science and technology has revolutionized the field of medicine, redefining the limit of man’s control over the human anatomy. The revolution has come in the form of stem cells; these cells differ from ordinary cells on two accounts. Firstly, they have the ability to divide and create more of themselves through a process called mitosis. Secondly, under specific conditions they can be induced or...

Search Engine results account for only 4% of the internet The internet is a treasure trove of information that merely awaits our command to reveal itself, but this wonderful place hides more than a few secrets of its own. Hidden within the vastness of the internet lies spaces that are not accounted for, that are not indexed and that hold information that is out of the reach of any search engine. The internet that many of us are familiar with is called the “Surface Web“ or “Lightnet”, and strictly speaking it encompasses anything and everything that can be indexed...