World Computer Literacy Day is observed on December 2, every year, to raise awareness about the role of computers in our lives and enhance digital literacy in all communities across the world. Computer literacy, or digital literacy, is the knowledge and expertise one needs to have to perform various tasks, complex or simple, on computers. Computer literacy is more important …
THE LITHIUM-ION BATTERY is the unsung hero of the modern world. It’s hugely important – helping sustain about 40 per cent of the world’s population – but also incredibly inefficient compared to nature’s own methods. Helium, next step along on the periodic table, has two protons, orbited by two negatively charged electrons – but it’s more challenging to simulate, because …