1. One of the missions of James Webb space telescope is to study planet formation and exoplanet atmosphere. Now for the first time, carbon dioxide has been discovered outside the solar system on exoplanet Wasp-39b. …

Astrology is the study of how celestial movements influence ordinary people’s lives. In astrology, even the remotest of objects (such as the dwarf planet Pluto) are thought to have the most profound influences on the individual sitting in some corner of the pale blue dot. Whereas astronomy is one of…

Physics and music, the two wildly separate fields, make life joyous and beautiful. Without the laws of physics, there would be no sunset, rainbow or internet, and without music, the living couldn’t so eloquently express feelings such as heartbreak. Brian May: English musician and astrophysicist Brian May was the co-founder…

Aristotle is perhaps the most well known scientist of old. He was a Greek polymath whose ideas survived 2000 years after his death, until Galileo came along and changed everything. According to Aristotle, there are two types of motion: Natural motion Violent motion Natural motion is automatic, whereas Violent motion…

A pseudo-science is garbed in universally accepted scientific framework to attain legitimacy. For example: Astrologers pretend to make personal revelations by using astronomical observations. That is why, it is hard to distinguish between science and pseudo-science even though the latter is practically useless. The question is, why do people accept…

In olden times, the Greeks arrived at conclusions by reasoning but that’s not how science is done anymore. Modern science is built upon observation and experiment. All scientists have an eye for patterns in nature… an astute observation is followed by a question… how does that happen? Scientists guess the…

Eratosthenes — a Greek polymath, observed that a pillar located in Syene cast no shadow at noon on June 21st, whereas another pillar erected some 900 kilometers away at Alexandria cast a definite shadow. How could it be, if the earth was flat in shape? The only solution was that…