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Underwater Exploration:
The interactive exhibits, large marine and sweet water live aquaria, video
display, multimedia games and scenic recreations in this gallery not only
explain the conceits of under water phenomena, but also enlighten us with the
vast resources held there in terms of food, minerals, energy, medicine
transport etc..
The exhibits in this gallery will take you to a journey from human gene to
cracking of genetic code and to biotechnological applications and emerging
trends We have been using the beneficial aspects of biotechnology in our
everyday life.
Being Human:
The 'Being Human' gallery presents a unique and fascinating view of the
science of social behavior. Indeed, human mind is an amazing world of
mysteries. Understanding human behavior is a perfect blend of work of the
scientists from the world of biology and social psychology.
SCIMAX:
SCIMAX is state of the art technology and it first of its kind in the state of U.P. It
is a thrilling experience of unparallel nature. One can watch large images on
the hemispherical dome screen accompanied by the digital surround sound
system to get memorable experience. SCIMAX is indeed an experience of
world-class education & entertainment.
3-D Science Show:
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A News Letter
Biotechnological Revolution:
from
Regional Science City
Aliganj, Lucknow, U.P
No. 4 Vol. 3
FROM THE DESK OF PROJECT COORDINATOR
Dear Friends,
On behalf of all my colleagues at Regional Science City, we wish you a
Very Happy & Prosperous New Year 2011.
Experience another unique facility of viewing 3-D images here using a stereo
back hi definition projection system and specially aligned polarized
spectacles.
October-December, 2010
CALENDAR OF FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Month
February
2011
Event
Date
Family Multimedia Camp
7th-9th, February, 2011
Computer Awareness Programme
15th-18th, Feb. 2011
National Science Day Celebration
27th-28th Feb. 2011
Prehistoric Life Park:
The newly developed Prehistoric Life Park at Regional Science City, Lucknow
shall take you on a journey of Prehistory. It is a recreated world of living
creatures which evolved on earth. They are no more present neither any body
has ever seen them but they are brought alive in this Prehistoric Life Park. The
robotic movement of the dinosaurs with audio commentary creates a perfect
ambience to know the life forms of ancient eras. Some of the fossils as old as
65 million of years are also on display in the park.
March
2011
Fun Science Gallery:
Family Multimedia Camp
4th-5th March 2011
Quiz Time Programme
10th-15th March, 2011
The biggest and unique exhibit of the gallery is “Aquamobile”, where we can
see different principle of science through flowing water, stringless piano,
Deceptive Reality, Walking Ghost, Electronic Organ, Breathing Square are the
other attractions of the gallery.
Fluidics Gallery:
In Fluidics Gallery working and participatory exhibits bring alive the science &
technology of fluid like Air Water Interplay, Magic Tap, Ripple Tank & Vortex
etc.
Ganga: The Story of Water:
The gallery on 'Ganga' gives vast knowledge on rich scientific heritage of India
with lots of information on water & its conservation.
Popular Science:
Wonders of light, sound, Magnetism, Heat and many other topics explained
through participating exhibits.
Children Gallery: Meri Anokhi Duniya :
Colourful exhibits are presented in such a way that the children can interact
and participate with their own hands on “do it yourself” basis by logical thinking.
Science Park:
Various participatory exhibits are installed in sprawling green park where
visitors learn through play and natural habitat unfolds itself in all its beauty and
fragrance.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Distinguished Guests during inaugural ceremony
of City Level Science Fair
I feel very happy to inform you that Regional Science City, Lucknow
organized a number of interesting educational programmes for school
children and general masses in last quarter such as Teacher-Taught
Science Workshop, City Level Science Drama Contest, City Level
Science Fair, Science Writing Workshop, Mega Painting Contest etc.
In the New Year 2011, Regional Science City in collaboration with
various scientific labs and institutions of Lucknow shall be organizing
the third “SCIENCE EXPO” in January 2011. The SCIENCE EXPO is
an effort to help people appreciate the role of science and technology
in their life & show case the contribution at different Scientific
Institutions in an around Lucknow.
Wishing you all the best and hope to see at SCIENCE EXPO 2011.
PUZZLE CORNER
S. Kumar
Project Coordinator
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MAJOR ATTRACTIONS
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Professor Raj Reddy, one of the prominent
scientists in computer science in the US, is
presently serving as the Director of the West
Coast campus of Carnegie Mellon University,
USA. Professor Reddy a native Indian earned
a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from
Guindy Engineering college of the University
of Madras, India, in 1958 and a Master's
degree in technology from the University of
New South Wales, Australia, in 1960. He
received a doctor's degree in Computer
Professor Raj Reddy science from Stanford University in 1966 and
the same year began his academic career as
an Assistant Professor in the same University.
He served as the Founding Director of the Robotics Institute at the
University from 1979 to 1991. For the next ten years, he served as
the Dean and professor of Computer Science and Robotics, at the
School of Computer Science and now as the Director of the West
coast campus. Dr. Reddy's research interests include the study of
human-computer interaction and artificial intelligence. His main area
of work is in artificial intelligence in particular with computers that can
see, hear, walk, talk etc. His current research project includes
speech recognition and universal digital libraries, an Information
Appliance for rural environments for use by illiterate people, where
all creative works of the human race are available to anyone
anywhere.
Professor Raj Reddy's achievements are many. He is a Fellow of the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Acoustical
Society of America and the American Association of Artificial
Intelligence (AAAI). He was elected a member of the National
Academy of Engineering in 1984 and also awarded the Legion of
Honor by President Mitterand of France. He is a member of the
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National
Academy of Sciences and was Chairman of the DARPA Information
Science and Technology Group from 1987 to 1990. He was president
of AAAI from 1987 to 1989. He is on the Technology Advisory Board
of Microsoft Corp. and received the IBM Research Ralph E. Gomory
Visiting Scholar Award in 1991. He was the Co-Chair of the PITAC
(President's Information Technology Advisory Committee) from 1999
to 2001under both Clinton and Bush. In 1994, Professor Redy
received jointly with Edward Peigenbaum, the Turing Award which is
the most prestigious in the computer science "For pioneering the
design and construction of large scale artificial intelligence systems,
demonstrating the practical importance and potential commercial
impact of artificial intelligence technology". He also received the
prestigious Padma Bhushan Award for his outstanding contributions
in computer science and information technology from President K.R.
Narayanan of India in an award ceremony in New Delhi. He has been
awarded honorary doctorates (Doctor of Science Honoris Causa)
from SV University in India, Universite Henri-Poincare in France,
University of New South Wales in Australia, Jawaharlal Nehru
Technological University in India, University of Massachusetts in
USA, University of Warwick in England, Anna University in India and
the Indian Institute for Information Technology (Allahabad) .
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Calendar of Forthcoming Events
Events of the Previous Quarter
Amazing Facts
Exhibit Not to Miss
Science News
Creativity Corner
Great Indian Scientist
Quiz Corner
Major Attraction
INTERESTING TO KNOW
Q.1 Why are sunrises and sunsets are often red or orange?
Ans. During the evening and early morning, when the sun is lower
in the horizon, the light that sun emits has travel farther and
through more of the atmosphere to reach us than it does during
mid-day, when the sun is closer to us. Since the distance through
the atmosphere is much larger for sunlight in the morning and
evening than during mid-day, the blue, indigo, and violet
frequencies get scattered out and used up in the evening and
morning. When the light finally reaches us, the only frequencies
left are those low-end frequencies of red, orange, yellow and a
bit little of green (some green has also been scattered). The
exhaustive scattering of the blue light is responsible for the
beautiful red, orange, and yellow sunrises and sunsets that we all
love to watch.
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AMAZING FACTS
Do you know?
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The eyes receive approximately 90 percent of all our information,
making us basically visual creatures.
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Twenty-Four-Karat Gold is not pure gold; there is a small amount of
copper in it. Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the
hands.
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A golden fish is only animal that can see infrared and ultraviolet
light.
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EXHIBIT NOT TO MISS
Sun Dial
Observe the Sundial. It is a device like a dial with a pointer
that casts a shadow to show what time it is.
In a sundial, sun casts the shadow from its style, known as
Gnomon. Here the Gnomon is a small triangular shaped
metal piece, positioned at the edge of a movable rod.
Move the gnomon from left to right by holding the circular
bob and note whether the circular shadow's horizontal
line matches with the printed one on the vertical wall.
If not, ask your friend to tilt the circular plate up or down
by rotating the rear handle until it matches. Once matched, move the
circular bob slowly. Where the complete circular shadow is being
formed is the indicator of present time to near perfection.
SCIENCE NEWS
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Some bacteria grow electrical hair that lets them link up in big biological
circuits, according to a University of Southern California biophysicist and
his collaborators. The finding suggests that microbialcolonies may
survive, communicate and share energy in part through electrically
conducting hairs known as bacterial nanowires. A bacterial nanowire
looks like a long hair sticking out of a microbe's body. Like human hair, it
consists mostly of protein.
A team of scientist has detected six isotopes, never seen before, of the
super heavy elements 104 through 114. starting with the creation of a
new isotope of the yet-to-be-named element 114, researchers
observed successive emissions of alpha particles that yielded new
isotopes of copernicium (element 112), darmstadtium (element 110),
hassium (element 108), seaborgium (element 106), and
rutherfordium (element 104). Rutherfordium ended the chain when it
decayed by spontaneous fission.
For the first time, a team of geneticists has shown the direct cause- and
effect link between a psychiatric disorder and the immune system. The
research team showed that pathological grooming in mice- a disorder
similar to trichotillomania in humans- is caused by a mutant Hoxb8
gene. The mutant gene results in defective immune system cells,
microglia, originates in bone marrow and migrates from blood to the brain.
Microglia defends the brain and spinal cord, attacking and engulfing
infectious agents.
CREATIVITY CORNER
ILLUSIVE SPHERE
Sphere is a solid figure shaped like a ball or globe. The term sphere comes
from the Greek word sphaira, meaning ball. In geometry, mathematicians
define a sphere as a set of all points in space a certain distance from a fixed
point called the centre. This means that a sphere is a solid figure bounded by a
single surface. The surface does not have any edges or boundaries, and each
of the points on the surface is the same distance from the centre. This
scientific toy gives an idea of illusion with the help of mirror reflection by using
common materials.
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Card board (5” X 5”)
Acrylic Mirror
Black paper/ Black Colour
Cello Tape / Adhesive
Scissor
Pen / Pencil
- 6 No.
- 4 No.
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EXPERIMENTAL SETUP
Set up the experiment as shown in figure
Cut out four pieces of the Acrylic mirror in an angle 100 degrees/80
degrees.
s Cut out one square piece of 4.5 cm X 4.5 cm and paste thermocol balls
in 6X6 No.'s with the help of adhesive.
s Now fix all four acrylic mirrors in the form of a truncated square pyramid
with balls kept at the central square area.
s Now make a closed box insert this truncated square pyramid shape and
cover it from the top and decorate this from out side with the help of colored
papers.
s Now make a peep hole on the topside and see inside the box. What do you
see?
s Isn't this surprising!!! How this big sphere is accommodated in side the
small cabinet?
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EXPLANATION
The magician creates a drama to show the illusion where impossible things
are shown. Creating illusion involves acting ability, skilful physical
movements, and the basic principles of such fields as chemistry, optics,
psychology, and physics. Here multiple reflections through mirror generates
a sphere which is physically impossible.