Remember when we used to dabble with alien geometries? IFSA is going back to our roots (which was planted in our first article about our logo), and this time we're tackling a cousin of that nefarious Mobius strip...

There are few things in this world that are as simple as they are crucial to our civilisation; and these things exist as a solution to an old problem. To fight gravity, we have pulleys;  for multiplying force we use levers; and so on...

But in our modern times, the vexing problem of friction are the things that keeps engineers awake at night. And a very simple tool that have not essentially changed in centuries are the best things we have to keep it at bay...

In the colloquial sense, a telescope is about how far we can see. But for astronomers, or specifically astrophysicists, it is about how far back in time. Cutting edge cosmology is all about studying the universe's past, about how it came into being, and about what will become of it in the far flung future.

This is why the world's scientific community came together to develop what may be our greatest achievement yet as a species: the James Webb Space Telescope.

As the world is beginning to choke itself from all the pollution in the air, one wonders why we are still dilly-dallying on adopting alternative energies. It's not something new, as a matter of fact, solar power - which is now our cheapest source of clean energy - has been around for more than a century.

If there's anyone to blame it's the Victorians...

A recent discussion we had shows student interest in the material sciences. So we quizzed them on what is probably the most ubiquitous space-age material there is - carbon fiber. It's in our airliners, cars, computers, even furniture. But it seems that most people are quite ill-informed on it, irregardless of their interest.

​It's a good thing that we're here to teach...