Star Wars posters
"Lucasfilm and Mondo commissioned me to create a new set of screen-printed posters for the original Star Wars trilogy." - Olly Moss…
Uncategorized
767 posts
Insects inspire simpler prosthetics
Evolution’s got everything going for it. Without a doubt, it’s the most powerful and efficient computing algorithm ever conceived - rather to have computed itself into existence. I don’t forget that i…
A 'Fight Club' graphic novel
It will, of course, be dark and messy. Due to contract obligations it can’t come to light for a while. Next year is “Beautiful You," followed by the story collection. But since the Fight Club seq…
Better batteries from rice husk
Research in lithium-ion batteries (LIB) is booming because the industries that use it widely are growing in number and expanding in scale. There’s been a steady march toward increasing the charge-capa…
Another window on ‘new physics’ closes
The Standard Model of particle physics is a theory that has been pieced together over the last 40 years after careful experiments. It accurately predicts the behaviour of various subatomic particles a…
Second star found to have magnetic-field flips also flips them fast
Tau Bootis A is a Sun-like white-dwarf star about 51 light-years from Earth. Its magnetic field changes polarity once every year as opposed to the 11 years it takes our Sun. While astronomers don'…
Ambitious gamma-ray telescope takes shape
I wrote a shortened version of this piece for The Hindu on July 4, 2013. This is the longer version, with some more details thrown in. -- Scientists and engineers from 27 countries including India a…
O Voyager, where art thou?
On September 5, 1977, NASA launched the Voyager 1 space probe to study the Jovian planets Jupiter and Saturn, and their moons, and the interstellar medium, the gigantic chasm between various star-syst…
Self-siphoning beads
This is the coolest thing I've seen all day, and I'm pretty sure it'll be the coolest thing you'd have seen all day, too: The Chain of Self-siphoning Beads, a.k.a. Physics Brainmelt.…
Who talks like that?
Four-and-half years of engineering, one year of blogging and one year of J-school later, I'm a sub-editor with an Indian national daily and not doing bad at all, if you asked me. I'm not parti…
(Untitled)
On September 5, 1977, NASA launched the Voyager 1 space probe to study the Jovian planets Jupiter and Saturn, and their moons, and the interstellar medium, the gigantic chasm between various star-syst…
A Periodic Table of history lessons
This is pretty cool. Twitter user @jamiebgall tweeted this picture he'd made of the Periodic Table, showing each element alongside the nationality of its discoverer. It's so simple, yet it…