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Hi readers, 15th February is the Birth Anniversary of the hugely famous astronomer Galileo Galilei. He lived in the period 1564-1642. He was the first man to say that the Earth revolves around the Sun (till then people believed that the Sun revolves around the Earth).  The Sun rising in the East and setting in the West everyday is a proof of the Earth rotating about its own axis as well as revolving around the sun. After he published a paper on this fact, he was imprisoned. For the rest of his life he had to live under house arrest. It was ...

4th January is the birthday of Sir Isaac Newton, one of mankind's greatest scientists ever. In fact it is the 379th Birth Anniversary.  The great discovery of Newton's Laws of Motion, was an eye opener for the concept pf gravity, gravitational Force, and the three Laws of Motion. Newtonian physics is a great approximation, and it is more than sufficient to explain the motion , force and physical behaviourof objects in our everyday life. However when it comes to extremely tiny particles such as atomic or sub-atomic particles, or nuclear parti...

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Launched on 25th December 2021. This is the world's biggest telescope ever launched by mankind into outer space. It is an INFRARED type telescope, not a visual type. It will be placed at an orbit around the earth at a gigantic distance of 1 million miles, and will observe things from there and relay back to earth!  This telescope increases its size.     ...

The 2021 Nobel Prize for PHYSICS was awarded to 3 great scientists on a shared basis for their truly outstanding contributions to humankind’s understanding: Syukuro Manabe Klaus Hasselmann Giorgio Parisi  The topics for which they were awarded was divided as follows: Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselman for: physical modelling of Earth's climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming Giorgio Parisi for: discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic...