For space, frugality is a harmful aspiration
Ref: 'ISRO's Chandrayaan-2 mission to cost lesser than Hollywood movie Interstellar - here's how they make it cost-effective', staff, Moneycontrol, February 20, 2018. ∞ 'Chandray…
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Why do we need dark matter?
The first thing that goes wrong whenever a new discovery is reported, an old one is invalidated, or some vaguely important scientific result is announced has often to do with misrepresentation in the…
Which way does antimatter swing?
In our universe, matter is king: it makes up everything. Its constituents are incredibly tiny particles - smaller than even the protons and neutrons they constitute - and they work together with natur…
A different kind of experiment at CERN
This article, as written by me, appeared in The Hindu on January 24, 2012. -- At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland, experiments are conducted by many scientists who d…