Long before electric light became a part of daily life, illumination meant fragile flames, gas lines, and constant fire hazards. While Thomas Edison was not the first to imagine the incandescent bulb,…
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Men of mettle: Pyotr Kapitsa and Paul Erdos
Behind the formidable achievements of history’s greatest scientific minds often lies a sharp, irrepressible wit. Through delightful encounters involving Pyotr Kapitsa, Ernest Rutherford, and Paul Erdős, these lighthearted anecdotes capture how quick…
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The man with big ears, and big dreams that took India to the moon
Born into privilege yet guided by a deep social conscience, Vikram Sarabhai saw advanced science not as an abstract pursuit, but as a practical instrument to uplift millions. From launching India’s first…
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Lithium-ion battery inventor introduces new glass electrolyte technology for fast-charging, noncombustible batteries
Curiosity and purpose are not bound by age or past triumphs. Decades after pioneering the lithium-ion chemistry that powers our modern world, Nobel laureate John B. Goodenough dedicated his later years to…
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Darwin’s black box
Modern biochemistry has opened the microscopic world of the biological cell, revealing intricate cellular machinery that operates with mechanical efficiency on an extraordinarily miniaturized scale. “A black box is a whimsical term used in…
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The helpful Moon
The book Our Created Moon: Earth’s Fascinating Neighbor reveals some ways the Moon benefits mankind. One obvious way is the light it reflects at night, which has guided travellers on land and sea for…
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A total eclipse
A total eclipse is one of the most beneficial events for human knowledge. Astronomers, physicists and historians learn all kinds of things from them (this is how astronomers confirmed that gravity bends…
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Feeling dizzy?
Do you realise that you should be dizzy right now? That’s because you are, right now, travelling at the speed of 66,000 miles per hour around the Sun. That’s how fast the…
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Earth: The perfect home
…the universe is a very inhospitable place. As far as we know, there’s no other place in it that can support human life except this little dot of a planet called Earth.…
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Penicillin, the miracle drug
On a September morning in 1928, Alexander Fleming sat at his work bench at St. Mary’s Hospital after having just returned from a vacation at The Dhoon (his country house) with his…
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“Eureka! Eureka”
Archimedes (c. 287-c. 212 BC) was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor from the ancient city of Syracuse in Sicily. Although few details of his life are known, he is regarded as one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity. Considered the greatest…
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The Curies discover radium
A few days before the Christmas of 1898, Pierre Curie scrawled the word ‘radium’ in his notebook as the name for a new element he and his wife Marie had brought laboriously…