The Curious Wavefunction

Erwin Schrödinger's book, "What is Life"?, inspired many scientists like Crick, Watson and Perutz to go into molecular biology...

Two weeks ago, outside a coffee shop near Los Angeles, I discovered a beautiful creature, a moth. It was lying still on the pavement and I w...

I n the 19th century it was coal and steel, in the 20th century it was oil and gas, what will it be in the 21st century? The answer, accordi...

It’s Thanksgiving weekend here in the U.S., and there’s an informal tradition on Thanksgiving to give thanks for all kinds of things in our ...

A beautifully written account of mathematics lost and found. The author got "estranged" from mathematics in school and now, at th...

There's a rather strange article by Temple Grandin in the Atlantic, parts of which had me vigorously nodding my head and parts of which...

I have been wanting to write about David McCullough who passed away recently and whose writings I always enjoyed. McCullough was admittedly ...

In the history of the Manhattan Project, Los Alamos has always been the star, and Hanford and Oak Ridge where plutonium and uranium respecti...

It wasn’t very long ago that I was rather enamored with the  New Atheist  movement, of which the most prominent proponent was Richard Dawkin...

Newton rightly decried that science progresses by standing on the shoulders of giants. But his often-quoted statement applies even more broa...