July 2017

Something leapt in my heart when I read Kangana Ranaut’s latest repartee to Saif Ali Khan’s misguided notes on nepotism and eugenics. There were many reasons for this but one in particular was to see the name ‘Terence… 

Featured image: Four of the 66 antennae of the ALMA array. Credit: Carlos Padilla – AUI/NRAO. Editions one, two, three, four, five, six, seven and eight In edition #8 of ‘why Titan is awesome’, we visited a lake near Titan’s north pole, named Ligeia Mare, and how… 

Recently, an international team of researchers claimed that it had discovered particles called Majorana fermions in a topological superconductor. The international press went gaga but, unfortunately, there wasn’t much discussion on whether what had been… 

(Note: There’s some text beyond the postscript at the bottom.) A recent discussion with some of my peers alerted me to a need I’ve either been deaf to or just don’t buy: readers, at least… 

You remember the criticism that former Indian men’s ODI cricket captain M.S. Dhoni received when a member of the press, Sam Ferris, asked him a question about his retirement during a presser, got invited to… 

Four p.m. I was blinking out of my afternoon siesta and scrolling down my Twitter feed catching up on whatever I’d missed when an RT by Thony Christie caught me quite by surprise: “Mathematics genius… 

Gwyneth Paltrow’s goop, a wellness brand that has recently come under fire for advertising almost-certainly pseudoscientific “lifestyle” products like $66 jade eggs for women to insert into their vaginas to strengthen their pelvic floors, put… 

https://twitter.com/JenLucPiquant/status/884814806666153986 The first time an object has been teleported from Earth to orbit, and it smashes quantum records. https://t.co/KQNgZpCGLq — MIT Technology Review (@techreview) July 11, 2017 Last month, Chinese researchers announced that they had… 

Call me nitpicky or misguided but, as silly as this WhatsApp message sounds…   … how many people stop to check how cabin pressure really works? Clearly the message is wrong but where does our… 

Editions one, two, three, four, five, six and seven. A new study has used radar data obtained by the Cassini probe to determine that the winds blowing on Saturn’s moon Titan aren’t that strong. This is because waves on the surface of the… 

CERN gets new Guinness World Records title, symmetry: The typical Guinness World Record has to be measurable and breakable. However, the organization also awards significant milestones for different subjects. The first proof of the existence of… 

I need to write what I’m going to to remind myself, and perhaps others, of a few things. In the last few weeks, it became important for me – as a member of the community…