JSTOR offers free Register & Read program to online access to individual scholars and researchers who register for a MyJSTOR account. To register, follow the link https://www.jstor.org/action/registration This program includes approximately 1,200 journals from more than 700 publishers, a subset of the content in JSTOR. Once you’ve you may add the item to…
A new Physics World special report examines the challenges for physicist in India The latest special report by Physics World, focuses on physics in India. The report reveals that money is not in short supply for the country`s top researchers, but that India lacks a critical concentration of highly capable scientists who can make…
Full text of the research papers published in December 2012 can be accessed from Indian Institute of Astrophysics Repository. Anathpindika, S., Bhatt, H. C, 2012, On the evolution of irradiated turbulent clouds: a comparative study between modes of triggered star formation, MNRAS, 427, 1713 Javaraiah, J, 2012, The G–O rule and Waldmeier effect in the…
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BBC Tamilosai had recently interviewed Dr.S.Soundararajaperumal, Director, Tamilnadu Science & Technology Centre, Chennai, on the topic of impact of NASA’s Artificial Satellites on the Moon and the Mayan Calendar. Listen to the BBC interview, http://www.bbc.co.uk/tamil/science/2012/12/121218_tamilsciencedec182012.shtml http://www.bbc.co.uk/tamil/multimedia/2012/12/121218_sciencetamildec18122012.shtml http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ariviyal
“The Milner Foundation announced on Tuesday that the British cosmologist Stephen Hawking and a team of seven scientists at CERN, the European research center for particle physics, had won a pair of $3-million prizes….” Source: Nytimes Read more at: www.nytimes.com
While many pundits and prognosticators lament the supposed end of the world on December 21, 2012 (thanks to misinterpreting Mayan predictions), here at the ASP we encourage everyone to go in the opposite – and accurate — direction. Thus, we are declaring December 12, 2012 as Anti-Doomsday Day in celebration of rational thinking and reasoned…
Full text of the research papers published in November 2012 can be accessed from Indian Institute of Astrophysics Repository. Garcia-Hernandez, D. A., Kameswara Rao, N., Lambert, D. L, 2012, High-resolution Optical Spectroscopy of DY Cen: Diffuse Interstellar Bands in a Proto-fullerene Circumstellar Environment?, ApJL, 759, L21 Krishna Prasad, S., Banerjee, D., Singh, J, 2012, Oscillations…
List of Books Displayed on 30th Nov 2012 1 Al-Khalili, Jim Black holes, wormholes, and time machines.–2nd ed.– Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2012. 19267 2 Bottcher, Markus, Harris, Daniel E. and Krawczynski, Henric, eds., Relativistic jets from active galactic nuclei.– Weinheim : Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2012. 19271 3 Cengel, Yunus A. and…
