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Erwin Schrödinger, 1933. Photo: Nobel Foundation/Public Domain. Quantum physics is one of the most remarkable developments of the 20th century. Until the early 1900s or so, Isaac Newton’s laws of ...
The standard American approach to preparing a young child for an MRI is simple: Knock them the hell out. MRIs require patients to remain unnaturally still for a long time in an unpleasant situation – ...
Compensation conundrum. There are two reasons why governments might be suppressing or obfuscating their official COVID death tolls: to save face, as is known, and the burden of compensation.. The ...
This year, 2019, commemorates the 50th anniversary of one of humanity’s most incredible achievements thus far: of people physically reaching the Moon. On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 landed on the natural ...
A wafer of a set of ‘quantum processors’ built by D-Wave Systems. Photo: jurvetson/Flickr, CC BY 2.0. We are in the middle of what the journal Nature has called the “quantum gold rush”. Governments ...
Quantum entanglement is still a subject of physics research but also a component of commercial technologies and plays a starring role in the quantum information processing industry. The 2022 Nobel ...
People holding placards at a ‘March for Science’ protest in August 2017. Credit: PTI. I n October 2022, India’s Ministry of Science and Technology, in collaboration with other ministries and ...
Featured image: Representative. Photo: ArtHouse Studio/Pexels. The media is overflowing with news on zoonosis, the medical term for diseases that are transmitted from animals to humans. Debates are ...
Hyderabad: In 2020, a team of palaeontologists led by Eberhard Frey, from the State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe, described a fossil of a hitherto unidentified dinosaur.They called it Ubirajara ...
Alexandra Elbakyan at a talk in 2010. Photo: Apneet Jolly/Flickr, CC BY 2.0. On December 24, 2020, the Delhi high court conducted its first hearing for the ongoing case against Alexandra Elbakyan’s ...
Photo: snowpeak/Flickr, CC BY 2.0. Even on the fairest of days, without a single cloud in sight, an electric current flows from the sky to the ground. Driven by the difference in electrical potential ...
But given that solar power will play a huge role in India’s energy needs, how equitable and green is it? While India’s solar growth, as experts say, looks buoyant, questions are being raised about the ...
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