Author: akshay

Yoichiro Nambu (b. 1921) of USA wins 1/2 of the prize for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics. Makoto Kobayashi (b.1944) and Toshihide Maskawa (b.1940), both from Japan will get 1/4 of the prize for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of…

Chandrayaan-1, India’s first lunar mission (of course unmanned) is all set to be launched from the spaceport of Sriharikota at 6:20 AM on October 22, according to ISRO sources. The satellite has already been transported from Banglore to Sriharikota in a special vehicle and is currently at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC, but called…

This years Nobel Prize for medicine is shared by three European scientists who discovered viruses that cause cervical cancer and AIDS.Harald zur Hausen (b. 1936) (Tel.: (06221) 42 – 28 50), a German virologist, who discovered the human papilloma viruses (H.P.V.), thus leading to the development of vaccines (Gardasil and Cervarix) against cervical cancer –…

Those who are true believers needn’t see this because your beliefs are going to be smashed around.Those who are in between believing and not, do readThose who are non-believers read and laugh your heart out100’s of reasons why God exists

OK. You’ve heard that term too many times. But still doesn’t know the meaning quite exact, right? Now here it isXenophobia is an intense and/or irrational dislike and sometimes fear of people from other countries. It comes from the Greek words ξένος (xenos), meaning “foreigner,” “stranger,” and φόβος (phobos), meaning “fear.” The term is typically…

“When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.”

All of us know well about wikipedia. But how many of us actually know its sisters, and its parent?Wikipedia was developed by Wiki Media Foundation and it has many projects under it other than the very popular wikipedia. Let me list each of them with a small description. Wiktionary : multilingual free content dictionary in…

FROM Arvind Khamitkar , I.A.S, Director of Medical & Research Div, Chennai Dear Friends,A few weeks ago, in a movie theatre, a person felt something poking from her seat. When she got up to see what it was, she found a Needle sticking out of the seat with a note attached saying‘You have just been…

Nuclear deal is on the footsteps of Indian doors. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told a press conference after talks with External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee that the bill concerning the Indo-US Nuclear Deal has been passed by the US Congress and will be signed by the President, soon, thereby making it a law.…

God.He is omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent and omnibenevolent. The above one is the best definition I could find for ‘God’.The concept of God is so self-consistent that there is no way to disprove it to a believer.But to a non-believer, the same ideas seems to be the most rubbish ideas that can be found in this…