The Ultimate Battle of Quantum Theories
7 minutes read The fatal flaw of the human species is as near as a main-sequence star is about to become a red
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My First Memory of Stars
< 1 minute read In this topsy-turvy world, sometimes I find solace in the most mundane things which I encounter, giving my ‘over-thinking’ capabilities
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Nobel Prize in Physics 2021: Predictions
2 minutes read The Nobel Prize in Physics, 2021 is going to be announced on Tuesday 5 October, 11:45 CEST. Here are our
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IIT Delhi Finally Inaugurates Optics and Photonics Centre
5 minutes read After the approval from the Board of Governors, a team of professors and administration started the actual work of creating the centre. The centre is organising an online OSI Symposium of the Optical Society of India named Frontiers in Optics and Photonics (FOP21). The team took this opportunity to inaugurate the Optics and Photonics Centre, IIT Delhi. The conference is open to all: no registration is required. To join the even online you can click here.
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Need for Quantum Cryptography
2 minutes read Cryptography is an ancient technique of encoding secret messages in a form that only the intended receiver can decode the
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Covid Crisis Support Scholarship
2 minutes read Covid has brought nightmares to all of us and our sympathy is with people who have lost their dear ones. The students who have lost their parents and guardians do not need to feel weak and helpless. There are so many initiatives that are trying to help such students. With the same purpose to help students, we have brought to you the following to support you in this difficult situation. We have found an initiative to support the education of students who have lost their parent(s) or are facing financial challenges owing to a Covid-led crisis in their family. For details and application, please refer to this post.
Read moreWebinar: Black Holes Everywhere– Dr. Omar López-Cruz
< 1 minute read Black holes (BHs) have become mainstream, since the detection of gravitational waves produced by the merger of binary BHs to the image of the shadow of the BH in M87. We have searched for the largest BH in the universe, the obvious place is the center of the brightest cluster galaxies (BCG). We propose that the BCG Holmberg 15A in the cluster Abell 85 could host the largest BH in the local universe, with a mass larger than 10^10 solar masses. Why can they attain larger masses? What is their origin?
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Today’s Featured Scientist: Dr Kaushik Choudhury
2 minutes read Kaushik Choudhury has graduated from IIT Roorkee with a masters’ degree in physics and earned a Ph.D. in interferometric observation of the shockwaves in air and liquids that are induced by laser ablation of metallic targets, jointly from IIT Bombay (India) and Monash University (Australia). He has got over 10 years of research experience in the domain of optics and optical instrumentation. He has worked across institutions during his PhD and post-doctoral research tenure. He is presently holding the position of CTO in Iota Design & Innovations Lab Pvt Ltd, a company that he has co-founded with the aim to make healthcare affordable.
Read moreWebinar: NAVIGATING WITH THE HELP OF ASTRONOMY IN THE MODERN ERA– Dr. Pragati Pradhan
< 1 minute read Throughout ancient history, humans have taken help of astronomy to navigate on Earth. I will present an overview of how humans are now designing to explore interplanetary space using X-ray pulsars (a.k.a. space GPS). I will also discuss case studies of some animals like dung-beetles use astronomy to navigate in their everyday life. I will touch upon the inspiration that astronomers obtain from structural designs of some animals (e.g., lobsters) to build X-ray spacecrafts with greater observing efficiency.
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