( Belated Merry Christmas and best wishes for the New Year to all readers !!) This list is personal, and claims to be neither complete...

(This is my 100th post – thanks to all the readers who have stayed with me thus far!!). What is endsemesteritis? Endsemesteritis is a...

A phenomenon that is common in undergraduate as well as graduate physics education: a student who is quite competent comes across a...

This post is a review of the book Invisibility: The History and Science of How Not to be Seen by Gregory G. Gbur . (Full disclosure:...

(Hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving!) This post is a review of The Impossible Man , a recent (2024) biography, by the science writer...

Should you be a nonphysicist and find yourself at a physics party (maybe as a friend or spouse) here are 15 pieces of essential physics...

Probably like other physicists, I get an interesting range of reactions when I reveal my profession to other people, at a party, next to...

A famous quote, often attributed to Henry Kissinger, says that the tussles in academia are especially vicious because the stakes are so...

It's an unwritten rule in science that to attract funding for a project or organization, or to promote a scientific technique or relevant...

Science is well known for not being based on authority; truth in science is ultimately decided by experiment (for the natural sciences)...

With all the buzz about AI, including two Nobel prizes this year (in physics and chemistry) related to the subject, it was time for me to...

The 2024 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton, “for foundational discoveries and inventions that...

After seeing the substantial interest in my previous post on the upcoming Nobel award announcements (Oct 7-14), I decided to stay on that...

It's almost that time of the year again - the Nobel prizes will be announced 7-14 October (the physics prize on October 8)!! In...

Lasers make for a $20 billion dollar industry and have all kinds of applications: industrial, medical, surveying, communication...

This post is aimed at stating explicitly something that is not always communicated to physics students as they make their way through the...

This is a post about my visit to the museum housing the scientific collection of C. V. Raman , the Nobel laureate in Physics, after whom...

This post is a review of the article ' Beyond The Big Bang Theory: Revealing the Everyday Research Lives of Theoretical Physics Faculty '...

The Problem Peer review is a highly contentious topic in academia. This is because papers are published (always) and funds are granted...

Clocks play an incredibly important role in our lives. This post is about a recent development, based on nuclear physics , which promises...