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1. Will the most advanced Indian state's gamble payoff? "Sikkim’s own energy needs of 409 megawatts (MW) were met by 2012, and Chamling already sells 175 MW of extra power to India’s power-s…
In his book Dreams of a Final Theory, Nobel-Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg discusses the various aspects of the journey toward a unifying theory in fundamental physics. One crucial aspect is…
Even after the loss of a critical stabilization system on-board, the NASA Kepler space telescope has made an important discovery. Scientists from the University of California have used the telescope t…
If you had subscribed to receive email alerts from my blog, then you might've received a few hundred emails about 20 minutes ago. That's entirely my fault. I was trying to restore some old pos…
In inordinate amounts or forms, anything can be poison to life - even the air we breathe. But its threat seems more ominous when you think that even in small quantities, accumulated over time, the oxy…
Of the four fundamental forces known to humankind, gravitation was the first to be studied in detail even though it is the weakest. This is because the effects of the other three - electromagnetic, st…
Studying optics has always been fun because most of its assertions are not far removed from its first principles. Even if this doesn't mean it's fully understood (which won't happen for as…
The groundbreaking ceremony for the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory happened on January 10. This means construction on Asia's two biggest neutrino experiments will have started in the sp…
Let go to take control. That's what Elon Musk did with the patents on his Tesla brand of electric cars. That's what Toyota has done now with its patents on fuel-cells, releasing 5,680 license…
Imagine a vast research facility situated below a hill - fully underground - hosting a massive particle detector made up of the world's largest electromagnet and some 30,000 metal plates. Embracin…
If you are seeking an appreciation for the techniques of string theory, then Brian Greene’s The Elegant Universe could be an optional supplement. If, on the other hand, you want to explore the epistem…
On Monday, the Prime Minister's Office gave the go ahead for the India-based Neutrino Observatory, an underground physics experiment that will study particles called atmospheric neutrinos. The pro…