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The Universe, An Occult
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Meeting the Milky Way…
Chayan Mondal Seeing the night sky filled with uncountable stars always amazes the one who loves to see it. The journey of exploring this vast universe begins its first footstep with the introduction of the night sky. The experience of observing it starts adding the colours to the canvas of imagination. The more you get…
How To Know If You Are Stuck In The “miRЯor universe”? PART 2
Priya Goyal In the previous article, we figured out a way to know if we are in the real universe or stuck in the mirror universe. Wu’s experiment, which involved radioactive decay of Cobalt atoms (cooled) placed in a magnetic field, came to our rescue. This discovery of weak forces violating parity symmetry was shocking…
Science is for Everybody
Prof. Prajval Shastri speaks on her life journey, memories at IIA, research career, her thoughts on gender disparities in science, science popularization etc. About the Interviewee:Prof. Prajval Shastri is an astrophysicist retired from Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore. She specializes in the area of phenomenology of active galaxies driven by supermassive blackholes using multi-wavelength observations…