An elusive detector for an elusive particle
The delay of a go-ahead from the Cabinet for an indigenously designed neutrino detector is demoralizing for scientists because it could turn investors away.
March 2014
Forget me. I’m there.
You don’t have to walk up to stand next to me, you don’t have to hug me. You don’t have to want to kiss me. You just have to look at me in the eye,…
Lord of the Rings Day
March 25 is Lord of the Rings Day. Why do I remember the date?
Our universe, the poor man’s accelerator
That cosmic inflation may have happened at a higher-than-anticipated energy means physicists have access to the young universe through astronomical data.
The Big Bang did bang
The Hindu March 19, 2014 On March 17, the most important day for cosmology in over a decade, the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics made an announcement that swept even physicists off their feet. Scientists published…
Go slow on the social media
Why whether the social media will inspire direct political mobilization in India is hard to say.
The stuff we learn after a plane goes missing
(A version of this post, as written by me, first appeared in The Hindu science blog, The Copernican, on March 16, 2014.) It’s likely any of you knew many of or all the following, but these are…
Airplanes can still go missing
Airplanes are one of our largest modes of transportation in terms of physical size. With the exception of ships, airplanes have the highest carrying capacity, are quite environmentally disruptive while in operation, and are equipped…
Riffing off the Rift
At first glance, the Oculus Rift is an ingenious invention – not something you can look at and go “Hey, how come I didn’t think of that?” By letting its users ‘step inside the game’,…