If you step outside at any time of the day or night and look up, you are bound to see a world filled with limitless wonders: majestic rainbows, dramatic cloud formations, stirring sunsets, intricate constellations, captivating solar eclipses, and even the distant planets themselves. However,
Four Bengali radio astronomers have recently discovered 34 new giant radio sources (GRSs) using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT). This discovery, published in the ‘Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series’ (ApJS) of the American Astronomical Society, marks a significant contribution to the field of radio astronomy. Historically, only
The ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, or π (/pa˪/; abbreviated as "pi"), is a mathematical constant that is roughly equivalent to 3.14159. A lot of formulas in physics and mathematics use π. Since it is a transcendental number, an equation including only
“The Government of India announced the names of 33 esteemed recipients of the annual Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar (RVP) Awards 2024 and four scientists from West Bengal have made it to the prestigious list. Only last year (2023), the Government of India launched “Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar,’’ a
Three Bengali scientists who have been researching lithium-ion batteries, devising ways to make them more agile and clever by decreasing charging time, raising the energy density, and doubling the battery life, have succeeded in their efforts, and their discovery could be a game changer and mark the
Say it with your heart and not with your head! Often said but not always followed, for even today despite a big leap in medical science, everything about the heart is still not written, and many mysteries are still not solved. The heart is one of the
‘Frequency’ is a 2000 American science fiction thriller film featuring Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviezel. A rare atmospheric phenomenon leads to an accidental cross-time radio link that connects a New York City firefighter to communicate with his son 30 years in the future via HAM
Kharagpur IIT alumni and researcher/ Professor Chinmay Chakraborty, a native of Sabang, a remote village in the Kharagpur subdivision of West Midnapore district, has made it to Stanford University's list of world's best scientists. He has made it to the list and bagged the title of excellence for
The horrifying incident recently at one of the premier institutions of India and Kolkata yet again opened our eyes to the social disease called ragging. Swapnadeep Kundu, a 17-year-old boy, who became a victim of ragging and lost his life after just 3 days of
The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (SSB) is India's highest science award given annually by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for notable and outstanding research, applied or fundamental in seven scientific disciplines — biology, chemistry, mathematics, physics, medicine, engineering