The on-again-off-again news of a hollywood movie on the life of mathematical genius Ramanujan has resurfaced again. This time, with little more details that Tamil actor Madhavan will play the lead and that the movie will be titled ‘The man … Continue reading
Dr. Padmanabhan Krishnagopalan Iyengar passed away yesterday. He was a former Atomic Energy Commission of India chairman during 1990-93 and Director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Bombay. He was largely responsible for the Neutron Physics division in BARC. He was … Continue reading
I want this piece of pi!
Forbes has these recommendations for gift (giving and receiving) for 2011 holidays What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite by David DiSalvo Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman Who’s in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the … Continue reading
Could not get better. Source: Troll Science
Arxiv.org paper from University of Cambridge group has incredibly intelligent method of using a commodity epson deskjet printer to print large area graphene devices. Starting with flakes of pure graphite, they exfoliated layers of graphene using liquid phase technique using N-Methylpyrrolidone (NMP) as … Continue reading
Royal Society (UK) has announced that it is opening its archives free for public access. Great news for science nerds and historians (and sociologists and cultural anthropologists…). These archives include the first ever peer reviewed scientific paper, Treasures in … Continue reading
Though a bit late, this one is too good to miss; The Onion reports on this years Nobel Prize announcement. A special mention is about the Chemistry Prize: triumphant fans of the 2011 laureates mobbing Stockholm streets last week, breaking … Continue reading
Herbert Aaron Hauptman, the mathematician who won Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his outstanding contribution to X-ray Crystallography passed away. Hauptman was the first to apply rigours mathematical methods for crystal structure determination with X-ray Diffraction (XRD). The Hauptman-Karle method, popularly known as The Direct Method in XRD, took the guess work out of the X-ray analysis and speed up the structure determination of complex proteins, hormones, antibiotics, vitamins and geological minerals. Continue reading
Steven Weinberg reviews Richard Dawkins’ God Delusion in Times Literary Suppliment The reviews of The God Delusion in the New York Times and the New Republic took Dawkins to task for his contemptuous rejection of the classic “proofs” of the … Continue reading