To save the planet, first save elephants
Wiping out all of Africa’s elephants could accelerate Earth’s climate crisis by allowing 7% more damaging greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, scientists say. But conserving forest elephants may reverse
Scientists
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Death of a star
ASTROPHYSICIST Subramanyam Chandrasekhar, 83, died of a heart attack on August 21 in Chicago. Humiliated and laughed at when he presented his theory on dying stars for the first time at the Royai
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Educative entertainment
The New Science Journalists is packed with the kind of science reporting that is intelligent, well-written, entertaining and educative. The editors of the book, like the participants of
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A matter of consequence
Science's search for the Holy Grail finally comes to an end with the uncovering of the 5th state of matter
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Schrodinger's kittens dead or alive
Can a cat be both dead and alive at the same time? If you believe the classic interpretation of quantum physics, it can. But several scientists are now unwilling to continue their suspension of disbelief
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Complex numbers made simple
All of us are familiar with real numbers. But numbers having both real and imaginary parts are called complex numbers. A complex number (y) can be denoted as y=a+ib Where a and b are real numbers
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Walking tall
Jonas Salk, the man who humbled the dreaded polio virus, was that rarest of scientists, the "unconventional upstart"
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Industry's star
Indian-born scientist, V.N. Mallikarjun Rao has been bestowed with the title of "distinguished scientist' by Dupont. Rao who had joined the company in 1973, has 55 patents in different areas which
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The last of the syncretic scientists
Joseph Needham's monumental work grinds to a halt after his recent demise
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Science without vision
BELOW a few shimmering points of achievements, the underside of Indian science is a vast abyss of failure and frustration. The contours of the 7th largest pool of scientifically trained personnel in
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Scientists under a microscope
A department of science and technology report reveals that India's boffins are academically a lax lot