Author: Dinpuii Hranleh

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Dinpuii is a postgraduate student of geology at BHU. She enjoys writing on science and sensitive topics

On the 29th of July 2015, Microsoft launched its first version of Windows 10. It was a moment awaited by many – from tech lovers to regular Windows users all over the world as Microsoft had been sounding quite confident about the uniqueness of its new operating system. It fit well with the company’s new strategy of “mobile-first, cloud-first”. And Windows 10 will be the last version of Windows as further updates with be released as an upgrade to Windows 10 itself. Windows 10 has seem some insanely fast adoption by Microsoft’s standards. Within 3 months of release, it’s running on 110 million devices, and the number…

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The term ‘clone’ was first used by J.B.S Haldane, a British biologist, in 1963. A ‘clone’ is a genetic copy of an organism, and ‘cloning’ involves the various processes used to create clones. Cloning is actually a very common process of reproduction for micro-organisms and plants. Reproduction isn’t truly cloning when it comes to multicellular organisms like animals and humans – primarily because of the variations involved in cellular copying. But when humans begin to indulge in it artificially – it comes with a lot of issues, both scientific and ethical. Human cloning is looked at with contempt and anger, almost…

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