Solar Storms
Did ‘Solar Storms’ Cause India’s Massive Blackout?
by HEATHER TIMMONS
No, we’re not wearing tinfoil hats over here at India Ink — so-called “solar storms,” or magnetic eruptions on the sun’s surface……
No, we’re not wearing tinfoil hats over here at India Ink — so-called “solar storms,” or magnetic eruptions on the sun’s surface……
Two destructive earthquakes within a week of each other, the first with a 7.5 magnitude on the Iran-Pakistan border, on April 16, and the second measuring 5.6 in eastern Afghanistan last Wednesday, were unsettlingly felt over much of north India, but were geologically unconnected to India’s seismic anatomy. However, the massive tectonic processes intrinsic to…
Dear Colleagues, IOP Publishing (IOP) and the American Astronomical Society (AAS) are pleased to announce the launch of the Astronomy Image Explorer (AIE). The AIE provides quick and easy access to hundreds of thousands of images, illustrations, graphs, charts, and videos that have been published in peer-reviewed journals and is available free online to scientists…
Dear Colleagues, The article on “Scam” Open Access journals is published in Science Magazine, check the url http://www.sciencemag.org/site/special/scicomm/index.xhtml All the materials in this issue is free to read With Regards, Christina Birdie
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…
The IIA Library is delighted to extend the offering of Overleaf Professional accounts to all students, faculty, and staff members engaged in research papers and projects. This service provides access to a collaborative, online LaTeX editor, enhancing the efficiency and quality of academic writing. The Overleaf tool efficiently manages formatting tasks by leveraging appropriate templates…
Dear Colleagues, The Nobel Prize in Physics 2014 was awarded jointly to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura “for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources”. Source: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2014/ With Regards, Librarian