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  By Sai Prasanna Thapa Chemistry Department For the fifth time in 40 years, the largest hot desert in the world, the Sahara, was blanketed in snow in January 2022. It is located in the northern region of the African continent, where the highest temperature has been recorded at up to 58 degrees Celsius. Despite their location in the hottest desert, the sand dunes of An Séfra (also known as the Gateway to the Desert) in Algeria have received snowfall in recent years. It is located at an elevation of 1000 metres above sea level and is surrounded by the Atlas Mountains near the Algerian-Moroccan border. According to news sources, the temperature dropped to -2 degrees Celsius the night before the snow fell. This year, snowfall occurred in the Sahara and Saudi Arabia. A U.K. weather official told The Independent that the snow in the Sahara was unusual but not unheard of. The Daily Mail asserted that the rare phenomenon was due to high-pressure systems of cold air that had moved overland t

By Sai Prasanna Thapa Chemistry Department  The porous division of Reality and Fiction grows thinner day by day. Invisibility once considered to be a superpower can now be soon accessible to the public. The Invisibility Cloak as we know in the Harry Potter series is no longer purely fictional. Guy Cramer, President & CEO of HyperStealth Biotechnology Corp., claims that his invention can now render a person or a building completely invisible. So, what exactly is his creation? And how does it manage to render objects undetectable? HyperStealth Biotechnology Corporation is a successful military camouflage uniform manufacturer and designer. They've provided over two million military uniforms, as well as 4000 vehicles and fighter jets, with Guy Cramer alone designing over 14,000 camouflage pattern designs. It was founded in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, in 1999. In 2011, Guy decided to create a material that could make objects invisible. He called it Quantum Stealth. By bending lig