Books on Science: Fiddling With a Two-Year Gap in the Busy Life of Copernicus
Dava Sobel has long taken a quirky approach to science history. In “Galileo’s Daughter” (1999), for instance, she focused not on the standard biographical material but on the scientist’s love for his illegitimate daughter, consigned [...]
Young scientists work together and win
Broadcom MASTERS, Robert Heckman, Justin Barber, Adriana Monzon, Alicia D’Souza, and Valerie Ding, finalists work together on a team challenge. Credit: Broadcom Foundation
Guests checking into the posh Palomar Hotel in Washington, D.C., [...]
How computers got us into space
When you look back at the past 50 years of human spaceflight, don’t forget the computer scientists who helped make it all possible.
That’s the message Arthur Cohen wants to pass along on the golden anniversary of NASA astronaut Alan [...]
Famed Magnetic Boy Is Probably Just Very Sticky
A 7-year-old Serbian boy named Bogdan is attracting media attention for his apparent ability to attract other things, such as silverware, remote controls, plates and even a large frying pan.
The objects seem to miraculously stick to the boy’s [...]
God did not create the universe, says Hawking
God did not create the universe and the “Big Bang” was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking argues in a new book.
There is no place for God in theories on the [...]
The Strangest Little Things in Nature
When small cannot get any smaller, you enter the quantum world of quarks, photons, and space-time foam. You’re welcome to take a look at this indivisible side of nature, but just remember to leave your common sense at the door.
People [...]
Changing times: More women go abroad to work
More Indian women are leaving home turf for professional, rather than personal reasons.
Deepa Gupta, 22, a mathematics graduate from Ludhiana, thought it a great opportunity to go to a postgraduate course in Michigan University. Two years [...]
Genius of Britain: Series
Britain may only be a small island, but its great scientists and inventors have literally created the modern world: from the invention of the steam engine, computers and the world-wide web to the discovery of the theory of evolution and the [...]
Homeschooled 14-yr-old tops Delhi IIT entrance
He addresses a barrage of questions with monosyllabic answers.
Sahal Kaushik is a 14-year-old of few words. Answering the flood of questions by a battery of journalists, he “fails to see what the big deal is”.
But the journalists do. Sahal, [...]
Hat trick for Bihar’s Super 30
All 30 students of Super 30, a free coaching centre in Bihar, have cracked the highly competitive Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) for the third consecutive year, the institute announced on Wednesday.
“We [...]
