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| The Raychaudhuri equation is a landmark achievement in relativity research, says Parthasarathi Majumdar |
| This was the early 1950s;
a young man had just completed his masters in physics with flying colours. Inspired
by his father, a school teacher who often had to fight hard for recognition, he
was drawn to an academic career. A hard choice those days, with limited options.
But physics, theoretical and mathematical, beckoned irresistibly. Even so, within
the discipline of physics it wasn’t the raging fashion of the days —
nuclear physics — but something many at that time felt was archaic, namely,
Albert Einstein’s general theory... | Read.. |
| Flashes of light |
| What’s a hyphen got to do with scientific insight? Ask Dr Swapan Chattopadhyay, associate laboratory director and distinguished professor at the
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| Tailormade baby Universe |
| You can call it a mad pursuit, but then physicists’ assignments are often like that. For example, at a number of sites all over the world they ar
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| QED: Messy prediction
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India’s science and technology mandarins have asked a government laboratory not to make its forecasts of the monsoon public. For the past three years, the Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation (CMMACS) in Bangalore has been en
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The best of all possible dreams
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HOW TO BE A
BAD BIRDWATCHER
Simon Barnes
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Why Corner
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| Why doesn’t food stick to teflon-coated frying pans? |
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The future of medicine belongs to pharmacogenomics ? the marriage of drugs with genetics. “But though the promise of molecular genetics is boundless in therapy and diagnostics, it’s also rife with ethical dilemmas,” said Prof. Govindar ... | 
