In the recent weeks I have been reading up on Nikola Tesla, including some biographies [1,2] that had been lying around on my shelf, and...

In much of science - and certainly in theoretical physics - one can work by oneself. I have had some experience along this line, having...

Reading more recent authors writing on biology and medicine, like Siddhartha Mukherjee, Atul Gawande and Paul Kalanithi, I found one of...

Talking to some of my colleagues who work there, I recently became curious about the continent of Antarctica. This post is divided into...

This post covers the Nobel prize in physics awarded this year to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L'Huillier“for experimental...

This post is about an experiment in the news this week, which might have taken the first step towards elucidating one of the greatest...

People usually laugh at me when I tell them that my athletic event of choice in school was the high jump. This is probably because I...

Science quite often influences, or even gives birth to, poetry. This includes science written as poetry, poets complaining about or...

I had mentioned in an earlier post that I would likely dedicate a separate piece to Gödel. Here it is. This post relies on several books...

As promised, this is a post about the biography of the only person to ever win two Nobel prizes in physics: John Bardeen. The book is...

The Nobel Prize is probably the top recognition in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and Peace....

This post is about a variety of attitudes that some well known scientists have taken to the discoveries they have made. These attitudes...

Background One of the revelations of quantum mechanics is that the same objects can behave as particles as well as waves. Light was the...

Nowadays, when I get to talk to younger students studying science, especially seniors in high school or starting undergraduates, I ask...

This post continues looking at the current interest in quantum physics. In an era which has declared the importance of training a...

Art and science have had connections since a long time. The Platonic solids played a central role in the thinking of scientists from...

This post addresses the ongoing buzz about quantum computers. In 2012 John Preskill at CalTech coined the term quantum supremacy, which...

Homi Jehangir Bhabha was a physicist who made important contributions at the international (there are processes and equations named after...

(When I started writing this blog I was determined not to miss posting weekly, except in the event of nuclear war. Unfortunately, I had...

This post is about proof - an object usually found in the pudding - and its importance. The word 'proof' comes from the Latin 'probare',...