Posted on 23 January 2012 by admin
By Prajwal Niraula
Staff Writer ’15
“The Earth is the cradle of humankind, but one cannot live in the cradle forever.” These famous words of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky mustberesoundingintheminds of scientists who have launched Curiosity to planet Mars on November 26. If everything goes as planned, the Mars rover Curiosity would land on the Gale Crater of the Mars on 5th August, 2012 after travelling eight and a half month and 550 million kilometers in space. A new era of space exploration is ushering. Continue Reading
Posted on 06 November 2011 by admin
By Prajwal Niraula
Staff Writer ’15
“My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.” This saying of J.B.S. Haldane, a renowned biologist, manifests most beautifully in the quantum world. The quantum world is one of those places where classical notions are broken and revolutionary ideas overrule and ,most importantly, there is no stepping back.
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Posted on 06 November 2011 by admin
By Anu Joshi
Science and Tech Editor ‘12
There are days when all I want is to get away from school. Despite all the amazing movie nights, bingo and brilliant Argus Eyes performances; the midterms, the seemingly endless papers and the thesis coupled with the ever creeping dread of senioritis never fails to take a toll. Continue Reading
Posted on 06 November 2011 by admin
By Prajwal Niraula
Staff Writer ’15
Look at the Nobel Prize in Physics this year. Saul Perimutter at University of California at Berkeley, Brian Schmidt of Australian University and Adam G. Riess of John Hopkins University received this highest honor in Physics ‘for the discovery of the accelerating expansions of the universe through the observation of distant supernovae.’ Continue Reading
