This is around the time folks usually apply to PhD programs, academic jobs and other new positions. Since I have gone through the process before and am currently going through the process again, I thought I would share some pointers I found useful…
Centella asiatica
For a couple of years I have been arguing that if Fast Radio Bursts are associated with stellar-mass black holes…
Life creates everything we recognize in the world around us from nothing but simple chemical ingredients and ambient energy from the sun or the churning earth beneath us.
HOW THE MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES ARE CONSTITUTED
Modern sciences deal with idealized things: with frictionless surfaces, rays of light, ideal gases, incompressible fluids, perfectly flexible strings, ideally efficient engines, ideal…
Never Alone
I am never alone. I try to find a place to be, where I can be on my own, where I can self-direct, where I can do what it is I both wish and need to do, but it is impossible. I cannot get to that place. No one can. The only way to really be alone is to kill everything around you, including yourself, and that…
Almost all living organisms on earth get their energy, ultimately, from the sun. Energy is…
Recently, Nature published a paper on how an old drug helps to cure cancer (if you don’t have subscription to Nature, read this news article to get some sense about it). I am fascinated by this idea that can potentially help millions of cancer patients. The drug is well…
Mental Health is a level of well-being or the absence of a mental illness in an individual. It constitutes…
(Responding to Ben Wolford: Seeing a UFO ruined Dale Spaur’s life)
I have always found the “Fermi Paradox” fascinating, formulated by the physicist Enrico Fermi, Nobel Prize winner in 1938. It…
This is simply a document that holds all my popular science writing, available either here on Medium or on some other website. This document will be updated when possible.
Kate Ross, Physicist, Colorado State University
The question that led to this article was simple: how many squirrels die of old age in the wild?
The answer, as it turns out, is none of them. Or most of them. Whatever. It all depends on how you define “dying of old age.” And that led to a much more interesting question:
Or what Dark Energy is (hint: it is highly probable that it is not “stuff”), or why the Standard Model of…
Last week at the busy train station in Milan, I picked up the new book that everyone was reading — Yuval Noah Harari’s…
As trevas da era medieval voltaram, e dessa vez a culpa é nossa!
You might be thinking that in between the talk of Vaidic Theory of the Universe, why did I start the discussion about religions? In this topic, I want to make the world aware that no religion, ideology or creed in this world is without any philosophical basis. And there is…
Abstract | Computational approaches that ‘dock’ small molecules into the structures of macromolecular targets and ‘score’ their potential complementarity to binding sites are widely used in hit identification and lead…
You’ve heard the advocates. You’ve heard the skeptics. You’ve heard the testimonies from people who swear by it and the horror stories from its victims.
This polarizing topic? The flu shot.
Think about the first computers that ever existed. If we go 60 years ago, people…
After a fairly mild start to 2017, it went down as the third warmest year for the globe on record, according to analysis done by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Physicists have imaged the Hydrogen Molecule Wavefunction (squared) for the first time…
Originally posted August 20th, 2013
I’m a huge proponent of creativity and STEM, so the blending of both is a win in my book.
Well written and Mindful. Would only add that the creation, even given entropy, creates complexity — albeit temporary in the case of our lifespan. Nevertheless, the nature on Earth and swirling through space certainly does invoke awe, beauty and truth. And, we belong in that.
Time? Isn’t it merely a measurement of how energetic systems relate to one another?
A stopwatch, for example, used to determine the time it takes for a racehorse to run around a track where each “second” is determined by the distance traveled by each tick. The distance covered by the stopwatch compared to the distance…
Very beautiful! Thanks
Shading Doppler, Tissue Doppler and Multigate Doppler
Tissue Doppler and Multigate Doppler
These images are amazing! 😃💫
For composing a stellar research paper, it is no secret that you will need a fabulous research topic that stands out from the rest of the class. Here are some tips that will help you choose a good topic for your research paper and some…
Hopefully we can change the system and create a more diverse STEM industry.
Do you love the smell of the fresh morning clean air? People who are residing in areas that are heavily polluted have an option now! You are not going to miss out much on the fresh breeze, if you put up an attractive Himalayan salt lamp in your…
It’s incredibly unfortunate that STEM has such a gender and minority gap, but I am hopeful that we can change that! Thanks for sharing.
